Alvin And Judith Neelley Serial Killers Alvin Howard Neelley, Jr. (1953–2005) and Judith Ann Adams Neelley (born 1964) are an American couple responsible for two torture murders. They each were convicted of the kidnappings and murders of Lisa Ann Millican and Janice Chatman and attempted to committed a third. Judy Neelley was sentenced to death by the state of Alabama in 1983, but her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment in 1999.[1] She is serving her sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama.Alvin Neelley was serving a life sentence at the Bostick State Prison in Hardwick, Georgia at the time of his death in 2005. Lisa Ann Millican, a 13 year-old girl from Cedartown, Georgia was abducted by Alvin and Judith Neelley from the Riverbend Mall in Rome, Georgia on September 25, 1982.[LShe was taken to a Scottsboro, Alabama, motel where the Neelleys held her captive. During her captivity, Lisa was raped by both Neelleys, and Judith injected her with Drano in an attempt to poison her. On the 28th, Lisa was shot in the head by Judith and her body was thrown in the Little River Canyon in Fort Payne, Alabama.Judith even called police to report Lisas body.Janice Chatman and John Hancock were a young engaged couple from Rome, Georgia. On October 4, 1982, they were abducted by Judith Neelley. John Hancock was shot while Janice Chatman was abducted and brought back to the Neelleys motel room, where she was tortured and murdered. John Hancock, however, did not die, and was able to point to Alvin and Judith Neelley as his assailants.Judith Neelley was arrested on October 9, 1982, and Alvin was taken into custody a few days later.Judith was deduced as being the perpetrator in the YDC employee attacks. To avoid the death penalty, Alvin Neelley pled guilty to murder and aggravated assault in Georgia. He was not tried for the Lisa Millican murder. Judith Neelleys trial began on March 7, 1983, in Fort Payne, Al. Before her trial however, she gave birth to a third child behind bars.After a six-week trial, Judith was convicted of the torture murder of Lisa Ann Millican. Despite a jurys recommendation to sentence Judith to life in prison,judge Randall Cole sentenced the 18 year-old mother of three to death in Alabamas electric chair. Following her first conviction, Judith pled guilty to Janice Chatmans murder.
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