Murder of Leann Whitlock

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On January 5, 1990, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, 19-year-old Leann Marion Whitlock (November 30, 1970 – January 5, 1990), an African-American sophomore at James Madison University, was kidnapped by two men outside a shopping mall and later murdered by her abductors, Ronald Lee Henderson and Thomas "Tommy" David Strickler (August 5, 1965 – July 21, 1999), the latter of whom was the ringleader of the crime. Strickler was arrested a week after the murder and convicted of robbery, kidnapping, and capital murder. He was sentenced to death. Henderson was arrested in Oregon six months later and extradited to Virginia, where he was convicted in a separate trial of first degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery and sentenced to three consecutive life terms. Strickler remained on death row for nine years before being executed by lethal injection on July 21, 1999.

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