Lance Mason

Lance Mason Full Name: Lance Timothy Mason Origin: Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States Occupation: Politician (formerly) Judge (formerly) Prison inmate (currently) Goals: Kill his ex-wife (succeeded) Escape the police (failed) Crimes: Domestic Abuse Murder Vehicular assault Grand theft auto Type of Villain: Abusive Corrupt Official

Lance Timothy Mason (born August 26, 1967) is a former Ohio government official and judge currently serving a life sentence for the 2018 murder of his ex-wife Aisha Fraser. He will be eligible for parole in 2054.

Biography

Mason served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2002 to 2006 as a Democrat, first from the 11th District and then the 8th. His tenure in the House of Representatives ended with his being appointed Assistant Minority Whip. He also served as an aide for US Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones and an assistant prosecuting attorney.

Following his serving in the House, Mason was elected to the State Senate for the 25th District, which he served in until December 31, 2008, when the state's governor Ted Strickland appointed him as a judge to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

However, Mason ran into controversy when he was arrested on August 2, 2014. Having entered into divorce proceedings with his wife Aisha Fraser the previous year, Mason assaulted her and beat her up. According to a police report, Mason punched his wife in the face over twenty times, bit and choked her and slammed her head into their car's central console. The attack left her with a fractured orbital bone and severe facial lacerations. Mason pleaded guilty to felonious assault and was suspended from practicing law; a court later sentenced him to two years in prison. He was released after serving nine months, and the divorce was finalised in 2015.

However, despite Mason vowing never to return to prison, he eventually committed a horrendous crime. In what the media described as "a fit of unprovoked rage", and in front of the couple's two daughters, Mason attacked Fraser and stabbed her to death.

During his attempt to escape from responding police officers, he drove Fraser's SUV into a police car and injured an officer. Police arrested Mason when he tried to get out of the car.

Mason was charged at the Court of Common Pleas that he had once worked for. After Mason's former colleagues all recused themselves, retired judge John G. Haas was brought in to preside over his trial. On August 20, 2019, he pleaded guilty to all charges. At his sentencing, prosecutors called for Mason to receive life without parole. Taking into account that Mason had pleaded guilty, Judge Haas sentenced him to life imprisonment with parole in thirty years for murder, and an additional five years for the attack on police.