Lorenzo Fayne
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Lorenzo Fayne (born 2 April 1971) is an American serial killer, rapist and necrophile responsible for six murders. He was sentenced to death for four of his murders, but his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.
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Fayne was born on 2 April 1971 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up in a poor family and unstable family, where he was regularly beaten and abused, and was sexually assaulted by another boy when he was seven. As a teenager, he failed academically and eventually dropped out of school. Between 1984 and 1989, he was imprisoned multiple times for robbery and assault, and was raped in prison by other inmates. An IQ test determined him to be around 75 IQ, making him borderline intellectually disabled. After his release, he moved to St. Louis, Illinois.
Fayne first came under suspicion after his next-door neighbour, 17-year-old Faith Davis, was raped and killed during a robbery and her apartment was set on fire. Witnesses said they saw Fayne fleeing the apartment after setting it on fire. Police arrested Fayne on suspicion of murder, finding Davis's blood on his clothes. Fayne admitted to robbing the apartment, but denied killing Davis.
During the investigation of the crime scene, Fayne's fingerprints were found. They were also discovered to match those taken from another crime scene: the rape and murder of 6-year-old Aree Hunt on 14 July 1989. When confronted with this evidence, Fayne confessed to both killings. He confessed to three more rape-murders while awaiting trial - 14-year-old Latondra Dean, 9-year-old Fallon Flood and 17-year-old Glenda Jones. He was also suspected of killing Nicole Willis in 1989, but was exonerated years later when DNA testing exonerated him. According to Fayne, he killed because he had an inferiority complex and killing people made him feel better about himself.
In 1994, Fayne was convicted of the murder of Aree Hunt. The jury voted 11-1 to sentence him to death, but as the decision was not unanimous he was sentenced to life without parole instead. He was then charged with the other four murders in 2001, convicted and sentenced to death. However, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2003 when Governor George Ryan suspended all death sentences.
In September 2009, DNA testing linked Fayne to the rape and murder of Rita Scott in Milwaukee in 1989. Fayne confessed to the murder, saying he had beaten her to death and raped her corpse. To this day he remains in jail at the Menard Correctional Centre.