Julian Kennedy

Serial killer

9known / alleged victims (9 +)

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Case Facts

Gender: male
Country: USA
Location: Florida/Arkansas/Georgia/New Mexico/Texas , USA
Date of birth: 1943
Age at first offence: 15
Characteristics: murder for hire, fugitive, kidnapping, armed robbery
Victim profile: Men and women
Method of murder: Beating / Strangulation / Shooting
Date(s) of murder: 1958 - 1973
Years active: 1958–1973
Date of arrest: —
Status: Life imprisonment
Sentenced to life imprisonment in Georgia, 1973

Case Summary

Background

Julian Kennedy was a drifter and an escaped convict. He was linked with Southern “outlaw” motorcycle gangs.

The offence

Kennedy confessed to multiple murders. According to his statement, he committed his first murder in Tampa when he was 15, helping other bikers beat a man to death as part of an initiation ceremony. He also stated that another male victim was strangled, wrapped in plastic bags, and left on the front seat of a car parked outside the Tampa police station.

Kennedy confessed to killing a serviceman from McCoy Air Force Base in Orlando during a quarrel with him. He also stated that another victim died in an argument over a game of pool. In Hillsborough County, he reportedly strangled a woman in a dispute over drugs.

While drifting across the continent, he confessed to holdup murders in the states of Arkansas, New Mexico, and Texas. He later abducted motorist Elva Jones in Valdosta, Georgia, and took her life in the course of a September 1972 jailbreak.

Investigation

Kennedy was confined in Lake City, Florida, awaiting trial on armed robbery charges when he began confessing to multiple murders in March 1973.

Trial

Kennedy was charged with murder in the Elva Jones case. He was returned to Georgia for trial and ultimate conviction.

Sentencing

Kennedy received a life term on one count in Georgia in 1973.

Outcome

Kennedy was sentenced to life imprisonment in Georgia, 1973.

Other details

Michael Newton (An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers) was named in the provided material alongside the case entry. Kennedy was described as 30-year-old at the time he was confined in Lake City, Florida.

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