In situations of murder, those affected ripple outward from the victim like rings in water. The closest of those proverbial rings is almost always the immediate family of the victim, and the savage 1984 strangling of 24-year-old Janette Cullins is no exception.
The perpetrator, Dean Carter, was a real gem. Strangling Janette Cullins and sticking her body into a closet in her San Diego home, was not his first crime. In fact, he’d killed three women just the day before in L.A. and had a history of raping women who didn’t exactly think he was Rico Suave. Sick.
Anyway, this douchebag went to trial in 1991 and was convicted of all four murders and two rapes. He was sentenced to death for his desecration of Janette …