James Franklin Rose

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James Franklin Rose (born December 19, 1945) is an American convicted murderer who killed two people in 1975 and 1976 respectively. In the first case, Rose raped and murdered 37-year-old Jean Savage on April 4, 1975, while in the second case, Rose kidnapped and murdered eight-year-old Lisa Lynn Berry, the daughter of his former girlfriend on October 22, 1976. Rose was first arrested and charged with the murder of Lisa Berry, and sentenced to death thrice in 1977, 1983 and 1998 respectively, with his death sentence overturned twice before it was reinstated for the third and final time. The Jean Savage murder case was unsolved for 41 years before DNA testing linked Rose to the murder, for which he was charged in 2016, and Rose was sentenced to life without parole in 2018 after pleading guilty to the crime. Rose remains on death row as of 2026 for Berry's murder.

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