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The Prospect Killer: Terry Blair · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Discretion is advised. This is ten minted murder. Terry Blair grew up surrounded
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  by crime and violence. His family tree was full of criminals. He was
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  the fourth eldest of ten siblings who would have many run ins with the law,
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  and some say the Blair family is one of the most notorious Kansas Any
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  crime families ever. This family of felons began in the nineteen seventies when Terry
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  Blair's mother, Janice, killed her drug dealing boyfriend. She entered in Alfred
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  Plea and didn't serve any time, but over the next two decades, two
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  of her ten children were convicted of murder and a third is serving two life
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  terms plus two hundred forty years for kidnapping and forcible sodomy. While incarcerated for
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  charges that I wasn't able to find, Terry Blair's brother, Walter Blair,
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  accepted an offer of six thousand dollars to quote get rid of a woman who
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  was making rape allegations towards a fellow inmate. Walter accepted the offer and upon
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  his release, went to the home of the twenty one year old law student
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  to seal the deal. He struck her over the head with a brick and
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  shot her numerous times at close range. He was convicted of murder and later
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  executed for his crimes. His brother, Clifford, was convicted in the abduction
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  of a woman from a bar. He shot the woman in the arm before
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  forcibly taking her to an abandoned house, where he raped her and beat her
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  repeatedly until she blacked out. She didn't die, she suffered extensive injuries and
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  spent two months in the hospital recovering. Clifford was sentenced to two life sentences
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  plus two hundred forty years. Other members of the Blair family, including Terry
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  Blair's sister, brother in law, and nephew, have faced charges for a
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  myriad of offenses such as robbery, kidnapping, and rape. Although this episode
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  could be about the entire family as a whole, Terry was by far,
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  somehow the worst, so it wasn't surprising when Terry Blair turned to a life
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  of crime and followed in the murderous footsteps of his family. Blair was ultimately
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  accused of raping and killing at least seven women in Kansas City, Missouri,
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  but investigators think there could be many more victims that will never be found.
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  Terry began his murder spree by killing Angela Munroe, a pregnant mother of his
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  two children. On May fifteenth, nineteen eighty two. Blair and Monroe got
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  into an argument and he beat her to death, and she was only nineteen
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  years old plus pregnant with their third child. Terry later admitted that he was
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  angry that she was a sex worker and that was the motive behind her murder.
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  He was convicted and sentenced to twenty five years for her murder, and
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  throughout his sentence he was in and out of prison on various parole releases,
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  but parole violations kept sending him back. During one of his parole releases,
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  Blair murdered another woman. On June thirtieth, two thousand and three, police
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  found the body of a forty five year old woman named Sandra Reid. She
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  was strangled and her neck had been broken. Blair was never formally convicted of
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  her murder, but it's likely that he was involved. A parole violation shortly
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  after that murder sent him back to prison to finish his sentence for the Angela
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  Monroe killing. Terry Blair served twenty one years in prison for the killing of
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  Angelo Monroe before he was released officially January of two thousand and four. Just
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  months after his release, his reign of terror in Kansas City officially began.
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  He stuck to a sixteen block radius when committing these crimes and targeted prostitutes along
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  Prospect Avenue, earning him the nickname of the Prospect Killer. He later said
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  in trial he wanted to kill as many women in prostitutes as possible. Allegedly,
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  Blair killed eight sex workers in three months. He would also make multiple
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  phone calls to police, giving them detailed directions on where they could find the
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  bodies, but not giving away any clues as to his identity. Throughout this
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  summer of murder, Blair was living with his mother and sister. It had
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  been reported that the man living above the family would frequently let prostitutes eat,
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  sleep, and shower in his apartment. Terry began his spree of violence with
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  at least two sexual assaults, raping two separate victims June first, two thousand
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  and four and June sixth, two thousand and four. He was not charged
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  or either of these assaults, but victim and witness testimony would later be his
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  downfall. Anna Ewing's body was found on July fourteenth, two thousand and four,
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  by a man spraying for weeds. She was strangled and her neck was
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  broken. Initially, the medical examiner ruled her death to be a cocaine overdose,
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  but that was later re examined, linking her to Blair. On August
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  eighteenth, two thousand and four, Blair attempted to claim another life, but
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  he failed in that attempt, leaving behind another eyewitness who survived a choking attack
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  from Blair. Following that failed murder attempt, in late August, Blair murdered
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  sex worker Patricia Butler. He dumped her body in an old, abandoned garage.
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  A few weeks after the murder, another sex worker, Sheila mackenzie,
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  was strangled and had her neck broken. Her body was dumped on top of
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  Butler's in that same abandoned garage. Police were notified of a strong foul odor
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  coming from a vacant and discovered the bodies of both Butler and McKenzie covered in
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  a tarp and decomposing. Completely unaware that their bodies had already been found.
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  Terry Blair made one of his anonymous nine one one calls, bragging I put
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  them there. At this point, the serial killer running rampant in Kansas City
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  was still unidentified, and more murders would take place before he was stopped.
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  The day after Butler and McKenzie's bodies were found, an anonymous tipster, very
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  likely Terry Blair, called nine to one one to tell the police where to
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  find the body of another victim, Carmen Hunt. Police had to use fingerprints
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  to identify Hunt's remains. She was forty years old at the time of her
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  murder. On September fourth, two thousand and four, nine one one caller
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  led police to two more bodies once again. Sex worker Claudetta Juniel's body was
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  found in the woods near an abandoned building. She was strangled and had a
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  broken neck. Like the others, she was sixty three years old. On
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  that same day, twenty five year old Darcy Williams was found with a broken
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  neck and strangled with her own clothing. Her body was found in an abandoned
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  alley. Before Blair could claim another life, he was arrested on a parole
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  violation. It's not uncommon for detectives to arrest a suspect on a parole violation
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  to question them regarding other open cases, and that's exactly what the detectives did
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  in this case. Terry Blair was initially charged with the murder of Mackenzie based
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  on DNA evidence from seamen and remember her body was found in the empty garage
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  along with Butlers. This would be the first of many, as Kansas City
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  thought this reign of terror was over. Days after Blair's arrest, police found
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  a skeletal body in an alley in an advanced state of decomposition. Her neck
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  was broken and it was clear that she died of strangulation. Blair was indicted
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  for her death, but those charges would later be dropped. Three months after
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  his murder spree ended, Blair was finally indicted for eight total murders. He
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  pled not guilty on December thirteenth, two thousand and four, and the trial
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  process began. While waiting for trial, numerous charges were dropped from Blair,
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  including two murders and various assault and sexual assault charges. Finally, after many
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  delays, Blair's trial began March two thousand and eight. In a predetermined agreement,
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  prosecutors removed the death penalty and Blair agreed to a trial by judge only
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  in this agreement, the state would dismiss two of the murder charges and the
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  assault and forcible rape charges. The trial went on for seventeen days and Terry
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  Blair was found guilty of six total murders. The only possible sentence for this
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  was life without parole on each charge. Blair was sentenced to six consecutive life
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  terms with no possibility of parole, and despite numerous appeals, Terry Blair remains
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