Donald Beardslee | |||||||||
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Born | Donald Jay Beardslee May 13, 1943 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | ||||||||
Died | January 19, 2005 | (aged 61)||||||||
Cause of death | Execution by lethal injection | ||||||||
Spouse | Karen Beardslee (Hansen) (1966–1967) | ||||||||
Conviction(s) | Missouri Second degree murder California First degree murder with special circumstances (2 counts) | ||||||||
Criminal penalty | Missouri 19 years imprisonment California Death | ||||||||
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Victims | 3 | ||||||||
Span of crimes | 1969–1981 | ||||||||
Country | United States | ||||||||
State(s) | Missouri and California | ||||||||
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Donald Jay Beardslee (May 13, 1943 – January 19, 2005) was an American serial killer who murdered three women. While on parole for killing a woman in Missouri in 1969, Beardslee murdered two more women in California. He was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in San Quentin State Prison in 2005.