General Information:
Date of Birth - 7/15/1978
Date of Offense - 8/17/1998
Age at Time of Offense - 20
Prior Occupation - Unknown
Education - Unknown
Prior Prison Record - Yes
Location of Crime - Fayetteville, North Carolina
Co-defendants - 6
Race and Gender of Victim - 2 White females
Crime Committed:
Christina Walters was convicted in the August 17, 1988, murders of 18-year-old Tracy Lambert and 21-year-old Susan Moore. She was also tried for the attempted murder of Debra Cheeseborough.
Walters, leader of a local Crips gang, admitted to shooting several .32-caliber bullets into Cheeseborough and thinking she had successfully killed her. The murders were done as a gang-initiation and the victims were chosen at random. Cheeseborough survived the attack and was able to testify against Walters and two others. The three were convicted and given the death penalty for their crimes.
Alvin Howard Neelley, Jr. (1953-2005) and Judith Ann Adams Neelley (1964-) are an American couple responsible for two torture murders. They each were convicted of the kidnappings and murders of Lisa Ann Millican and Janice Chatman. Judy Neelley was sentenced to death by the state of Alabama in 1983, but her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment in 1999. She is serving her sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. Alvin Neelley was serving a life sentence at the Bostick State Prison in Hardwick, Georgia at the time of his death in 2005.
When the time was right, Heaney pounced and injected Mr Snabel. But the syringe was too small to inject enough of the poisonous concoction to kill him.
It appeared to have little effect and Maslin was angered, half an hour later, to see Mr Snabel riding around on his motorbike.
Maslin ordered a party attendee, Ian Gillin, a local man described in court as of lower-than-average-intelligence, to finish off Mr Snabel with a baseball bat.
Gillin crept up behind him as he sat in a chair and struck him a number of times on the head with the baseball bat. Sickened by what he had done, Gillin ran outside and threw up.
But Paul Snabel was still alive and, as he sat slumped in the chair with blood streaming down his face, Maslin asphyxiated him by tying a plastic bag over his head.
Later that night Maslin and Heaney wrapped the corpse in a tarpaulin and dumped it in remote bushland. They didn't even bother to bury it.
Maslin ordered her husband and Gillin to cut up Mr Snabel's motorbike and scatter the pieces around tips and dams in the area.
The plan came undone when children found parts of the distinctive red and white bike and handed them in to police.
The police began investigations and the body was found several weeks later.
Gillin admitted to police his part in the murder. When asked why he tried to murder someone he had just met he told police he was scared of Irene Maslin. He served three years of a four year sentence.
The Randall sisters served just two years of four year sentences.
Maslin and Heany served ten years of fifteen year sentences. They are now out of jail.
At her trial, Justice Vincent told Maslin the brutal killing would not have been carried out without her determination and strength of character.
He said she had acted resolutely to kill Paul Joseph Snabel "and had placed a pitifully small value on his life".
"Irene Maslin was a real Charles Manson," said a Mirboo North local told the media at the time.
"People were frightened of her. She was scary. She could chill you to the bone just by looking at you."
In a video-taped interview Gillin told police that after Maslin had put the plastic bag over Mr Snabel's head, tied it with elastic and said: "That should make him die."
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