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George
C. ADORNO
Classification:
Homicide
Characteristics: Juvenile (15)
- Robberies
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: 1974 / 1977
Date of birth: 1959
Victims profile: ??? / Steven Robinson (cab driver)
Method of murder:
???
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Status: Sentenced
to fifteen years to life
on July 12, 1977
Born in 1959, the son of Puerto Rican immigrants,
Adorno had his first close encounter with police at age four, after
setting his sister on fire.
He ran up an impressive record of sixteen
arrests, all for theft, before he was charged -- at age 15 -- with
triple homicide.
George confessed the slayings to a New York district
attorney, in the presence of his sister. Adorno's mother spoke no
English and had not been summoned for that reason, but her absence led a
juvenile magistrate to throw out the confession, dismissing three counts
of homicide. Convicted on a lesser charge of robbery,
Adorno was
sentenced to three years confinement, with his juvenile record sealed by
court order, in compliance with state law.
Released after serving half his sentence, Adorno was
free nineteen days before he killed again. The last victim was Steven
Robinson, a black law student working as a cab driver to pay his
tuition.
Adorno's guilty plea, entered on July 12, 1977, earned him a
sentence of fifteen years to life. (Two accomplices -- Mark Davis, 17,
and Calvin Gaddy, 15 -- also pled guilty in Robinson's death, receiving
identical sentences.)
Under New York law, he became eligible for parole
after serving half the lesser period. Justice Burton Roberts, in
sentencing Adorno, delivered a scathing attack on the American system of
juvenile justice. "Nothing ever happened to Adorno," Roberts
said. "He plays the courts like a concert player plays the piano.
Is there ever a time when a red light goes on and you say, 'We have to
control this person.' ?"
Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial
Killers - Hunting Humans
SEX:M RACE: H TYPE: T MOTIVE: CE
MO:
Committed triple murder during robbery; killed again after 19 days on parole.
