Charles Anthony Boyd

Charles Anthony Boyd (August 17, 1959 – August 5, 1999), known as The Bathroom Slayer, was an American serial killer who raped and killed three women over a nine-month period from 1986 to 1987 in North Dallas, Texas. He was sentenced to death for the final murder and was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1999.

Early life A native of Dallas, Boyd was sentenced to five years in prison for sexual assault and burglary. He was later granted early release in November 1985, after serving less than half of his sentence, after which he began working as a janitor at a nearby bank.

Murders Boyd committed his first murder on July 22, 1986, when 37-year-old Tippawan Nakusan, a Thai immigrant who lived in the apartment just upstairs of his and worked as a waitress, was found stabbed and suffocated to death in her bathtub. On September 15, 1986, an apartment cleaning lady chanced upon 22-year-old Lashun Chappell laying dead in her apartment bathroom. She had been fatally stabbed to death.

On April 13, 1987, 20-year-old Linda Williams returned home to her apartment from work and found her roommate, 21-year-old Mary Milligan's body stuffed in a bathtub, raped, strangled, and drowned.

Trial and conviction The next day, Boyd was arrested after he attempted to pawn off several of Milligan's personal items. After ten minutes of deliberating, the jury reached a guilty verdict for Boyd in November 1987, and a month later they sentenced him to death.

Execution On August 5, 1999, Boyd was executed by lethal injection in the execution chamber at the Huntsville Unit, twelve days shy of his 40th birthday. Prior to his execution, he was asked if he would like to make a final statement, for which he declined. When the drugs took effect, however, he claimed that he was innocent; "I want you all to know I did not do this crime. I wanted to wait for a thirty day stay for a DNA test so you know who did the crime." Not long after, Boyd let out a gasp and went silent. He was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m.