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Samuel
Lee IVERY
A.K.A.: "Ninja of God"
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics:
Former mental patient - Robberies - Decapitation
Number of victims: 1 - 4 +
Date of murders: 1992
Date of birth: 1957
Victims profile: Women between 17 and 27
Method of murder: Stabbing
with knife
Location: California/Arizona/Illinois/Alabama,
USA
Status: Sentenced to death in Alabama on 1994
On Aug. 15, 1992, Debra Lewis, a 27-year-old single mother, was
working at a convenience store in Mobile, Ala., when drifter Samuel Lee
Ivery decapitated Lewis’ head before robbing the store. Ivery had
recently been released from a California mental facility.
Samuel has been diagnosed by mental
health experts as a paranoid schizophrenic. Samuel was also suspected of
two similar slayings in July 1992, in East St. Louis, Illinois.
Samuel Lee Ivery
SEX: M RACE: B TYPE: N MOTIVE:
PC-nonspecific
MO:
"Ninja of God"; beheaded females age 17-27.
DISPOSITION:
Condemned in Ala., 1994.
Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial
Killers