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Ronald MACON
A.K.A.: "Ron"
Classification:
Serial killer
Characteristics: After buying
crack cocaine for them and having sex with them
Status: Sentenced to life in prison on September 15, 2003
Offender Ronald
Macon
In 2003, Ronald Macon
was convicted of three murders and one criminal sexual assault.
Ronald Macon was
arrested for a felony charge on three separate occasions in 1998. If
Illinois required him to give a DNA sample after his first felony arrest
in 1998, a DNA match could have been obtained with the DNA evidence
recovered from his first murder, thereby identifying him as the offender
and the subsequent two murders and one criminal sexual assault would
have been prevented.
Timeline of Events
On January 13, 1998,
Ronald Macon was arrested for Retail Theft (Felony)
On July 20, 1998, Ronald Macon
was arrested for Defacing Property (Felony)
On September 8, 1998,
Ronald Macon was arrested for Retail Theft (Felony).
On February 18, 1999,
a 43-year old woman was found murdered. Her body was discovered on the
100 block of East 45th Street. DNA evidence was recovered.
On April 4, 1999, a
35-year old woman was found murdered. She was choked and beaten to
death with an electrical box on the 5900 block of South Damen Ave. DNA
was evidence recovered.
On June 21, 1999, a
woman was found murdered. She was choked, raped; her hands and feet
were bound with shoelaces, and then strangled to death with a strap from
a bag. Her body was discovered on the 400 block of East 69th
Street. DNA evidence was recovered.
On August 9, 1999,
Ronald Macon was arrested for Criminal Sexual Assault of a 65-year old
woman. Ronald Macon placed a knife to the victim’s neck and demanded her
jewelry and money. Ronald Macon then wrapped a cord around her hands,
led her into the bedroom and raped her.
On September 11,
2003, Ronald Macon was sentenced for life in prison for killing the
three women and sentenced to 30 years for raping a 65-year old woman. If
his DNA sample had been taken on January 13, 1998, 2 murders and 1 rape
would not have happened.
Inmate Is Charged In 3 Chicago Killings
The New York Times
Tuesday, October 12, 1999
A man awaiting trial in a rape case has been charged
with killing three women on the city's South Side, in what the police
call their first big break in the search for a serial killer who has
been preying on poverty-stricken neighborhoods.
The police said DNA evidence from a string of
unsolved killings and rapes had led them to Ronald Macon.
Mr. Macon, 35, who has been in jail since August in a
separate rape case, was charged on Sunday with three counts of first-degree
murder.
Comdr. Frank Trigg of the Police Department said Mr.
Macon had confessed to the three killings.
The authorities said their investigations would
continue in a neighborhood where at least 10 similar slayings have
occurred over the last six years.
The three victims in the Macon case were all killed
this year in the Englewood and Washington Park neighborhoods.
Angelnetta Peeples, 43, was found in an abandoned
building on Feb. 20. She had been strangled and hit on the head. Linda
Soloman, 36, who was found on April 14 in a stairwell, also had been
strangled and hit on the head. Rosezina Williams, 50, was strangled and
her body found in a trash container on June 21.
The authorities said Mr. Macon could face the death
penalty if he is convicted of murder.
He was already being held in lieu of $1.25 million
bond in a rape case.
Ronald
Macon
October 11, 1999
In what detectives hailed as a major break in their
investigation of four separate strings of killings of South Side women
since 1993, Ronald Macon was charged in the deaths of Angelnetta Peeples,
Linda Soloman and Rosezina Williams.
Nine murders and three sexual
assaults remain unsolved. Macon strangled the three women on the South
Side after buying crack cocaine for them and having sex with them.
Assistant
State's Attorney Pat McGuire said witnesses told police the last person
seen with Peeples was a man named "Ron."
Police developed
information leading to Macon, 35, who has been in Cook County Jail since
August 9 on unrelated sexual assault charges. Chicago police are puzzled
at why a DNA sample from Macon was not contained in a computerized DNA
databank designed to help detectives sex crimes, though the alleged
serial killer was sitting in jail on charges he raped his former baby-sitter.
