Florida murderer James Barnes has been convicted of the killings of two women but claims to have murdered two other victims.
Brevard County Circuit Judge Steve Henderson issued an order on June 28 that said Barnes had dismissed"all postconviction proceedings" to prevent his execution.
Barnes was sentenced to death for the murder of a nurse who had apparently been unknown to him. He broke into Patricia 'Patsy' Miller's Melbourne, Florida, condominium in April 1988 and subjected the 41-year-old to brutal, sustained physical and sexual violence before murdering her by choking her and beating her head with a hammer as she lay tied up on her bed.
At the time, Barnes was already in prison serving time for the December 1997 murder of his estranged wife, Linda Barnes. The 44-year-old had obtained a restraining order against him, but he went to her home and strangled her. He was still at the property, with her body stuffed in a closet, when police investigating her disappearance arrested him 10 days later. Barnes pleaded guilty to her murder at court, where he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Barnes told the filmmaker that he had murdered Chester Wetmore in 1988, describing him as a homeless teenager who was addicted to crystal meth. He said Wetmore had broken into his car and stolen cocaine that Barnes was planning to sell, so he tracked him down, shot him to death and buried the body.
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