Robert Anthony Buell [SEP] convicted of
Robert Anthony Buell
Robert Anthony Buell (September 10, 1940 – September 24, 2002) was an Akron, Ohio Planning Department worker, convicted of the July 17, 1982 murder of 11-year-old Krista Lea Harrison.
Buell died by lethal injection on September 24, 2002. His final meal was a single black unpitted olive.
Murder cases.
On July 17, 1982, Buell was reportedly seen abducting Krista Harrison in a park in Marshallville, Ohio. Harrison's body was found six days after her
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After Harrison's body was found, a $10,000 reward was placed for information about the abductor, which showed composite sketches of the perpetrator. No one was arrested until two years later. In 1984, 44-year-old Robert Anthony Buell, employed by the state of Ohio, kidnapped a 28-year-old woman while she was working as a manager at an Ohio gas station in Damascus, Ohio. The woman's head was shaved, she was shocked with a severed electrical cord, beaten and was bound to