The hand of the innocent from the other side: the terrible revenge of Johnny Frank Garrett (8 photos)

Once is a coincidence, twice is an accident, and three times is a trend. What if there are 14 cases?





That's how many lives were interrupted within a few years after execution of American John Garrett. And they all had something to do with his death.



Sister Tadea

On Halloween in 1983 in Amarillo, Texas, they were brutally murdered nun, having previously raped and mutilated an elderly woman. Before sisters Tadeya similar cases of attacks on older women have already met in the vicinity of Amarillo. All 10 were abused and tortured, one did not survive.

The case received public outcry, and the people demanded to find and punish the criminal. Lacking much evidence, the police resorted to a rare least: turned to a psychic. The clairvoyant stated that she was vision of the killer: this is a teenager who lives near the monastery, where there was a murder.



Johnny

Under the description really got 17-year-old teenager John Garrett, who suffered from a mental disorder. Johnny claimed that he didn't do anything like that. But, apparently, the pressure was more than serious. Physical evidence began to appear - hair and prints in the cell of sister Tadeya. Then all of a sudden there were witnesses who saw Johnny running away from the monastery on the day of the murder.



No one listened to the arguments of the family. The lawyers were not too competent. As a result, in 1992, Garrett was executed by electric chair for murder. He never signed the confession. And before death cursed everyone who was somehow involved in his death. So the following happened:



Of course, there are coincidences in life. But in order to quantity? More and more people in the state agreed that from Johnny made a scapegoat. And the truth was revealed by the development of modern technologies.



A letter with a curse that Johnny wrote before he died

In 2004, a sample of seminal fluid found at the site killing a nun, compared to the base. And found a match: sperm belonged to Cuban refugee Leoncio Pérez Rueda, who was already convicted of rape. He immediately confessed. And got over "humane", so to speak, sentence: 45 years in prison.



Was the series of deaths an accident, or did Johnny really take revenge from the grave on his offenders as a warning to others?