Ronald Dominique, 44, bowed his head as a judge read out the names of eight young men he confessed to raping and killing over a 10-year period in Louisiana, the Associated Press reports. He is incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.Ī serial killer has received eight consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to eight murders in a decade-long spree in which he may have taken the lives of more than 20 men.

Dominique had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a deal to avoid the death penalty. On September 23, 2008, Dominique was sentenced to eight life sentences after confessing to raping and killing his male victims over a ten-year period. The most recent victim, Christoper Sutterfield, had died about two months earlier. He was investigated following a police report by a man who refused to let Dominique tie him up. In his confession, Dominique, who is reportedly gay, said he frequented area gay bars and targeted men he thought would be willing to have sex for money. Dominique is suspected of killing 23 men. He has been charged with multiple cases of rape and first-degree murder. Ronald Joseph Dominique (born 1964) is an American serial killer from the Bayou Blue area of Houma, which is in Terrebonne Parish in southeastern Louisiana.įollowing his arrest on December 1, 2006, Dominique confessed to the rape and murder of at least 23 men over a ten-year period beginning in 1997, in Terrebonne Parish, Lafourche Parish, Iberville Parish and Jefferson Parish in suburban New Orleans.

Sentenced to eight life sentences in prison on September 23, 2008 Method of murder: Strangulation - Suffocation Victims profile: Kenneth Randolph / Michael Barnett / Leon Lirette / August Watkins / Kurt Cunningham / Alonzo Hogan / Chris Deville / Wayne Smith / Nicholas Pellegrin (men aged between 16 to 46 years AKA 'The Bayou serial killer' Classification: Serial killerĬharacteristics: Rape - He did not want to return to jail after raping the men

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