Lloyd Leo Anderson

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Lloyd Leo Anderson (September 17, 1942 – February 26, 1965) was an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer. Between March and May 1961, Anderson committed three murders, robbing each victim before killing them. Following the third murder, Anderson and one of his two accomplices, Clewiston Jones, became involved in a gunfight with police. The confrontation resulted in Anderson being captured, while Jones was killed during the standoff. The other accomplice, Anderson's uncle Charles Moore, was caught a day after his nephew's arrest. Anderson was subsequently tried for the murder of 15-year-old Thomas Grupe, a drugstore delivery boy who was killed during a robbery in St. Louis, Missouri. He was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed in the gas chamber on February 26, 1965. Anderson was reportedly the last person executed by gas chamber in Missouri. Moore, his surviving co-defendant, pleaded guilty to Grupe's murder and was sentenced to life in prison. In addition to Grupe...

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