Danny Bible

Danny Paul Bible (August 28, 1951 – June 27, 2018), known as The Ice Pick Killer, was an American serial killer, serial rapist and child sexual abuser who committed four murders and numerous rapes between 1979 and 1983. Originally sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for one murder and never charged with two others, he was paroled early and committed multiple sexual assaults across Montana, Texas and Louisiana. Following his final arrest, he confessed to a rape-murder in 1979 and to the two other murders he was never tried for.

After failing to appeal his death sentence, Bible was executed in 2018.

Murders Inez Deaton In May 1979, Bible was watching television at his home in Houston, Texas, when he was visited by 20-year-old Inez Deaton, a neighbor and friend of his cousin who wanted to use the telephone. Upon entering the house, Bible grabbed her and demanded that she have sex with him, which Deaton refused to do.

Almost immediately after the killings, Bible fled Texas yet again, abandoning his wife's car at an airport in Midland. Once he knocked on the door, he was let in by the woman's babysitter, as she recognized him as her employer's ex-boyfriend - he then proceeded to tie up both women and rape Miller's 11-year-old daughter before stealing some valuables from the house. Facing charges both in Texas and Montana, Bible instead traveled to Spokane, Washington and from there to Florida. The authorities lacked evidence to charge him with the killings of Tracy and Justin Powers, and the inability to establish a cause of death for either of them ultimately led to him not being charged at all.

Death of Bible's son Following his conviction, Bible was imprisoned at a prison in Rosharon to serve out his sentence. In January 1992, a personal tragedy would come about after one of the seven children he had with his first wife, 15-year-old Timothy Martin Bible, was shot and killed during an altercation with a police officer in Wahneta, Florida.

News reports state that on January 30, 21-year-old police deputy Paul Kurtzweil went to the mobile home of Celsa Bible, where she lived with her seven children, to arrest Timothy on outstanding charges of forgery and failing to appear in court.

In the ensuing chase, Timothy drew a .25-caliber handgun, prompting Dep. Kurtzweil to shoot him in the head.

This would continue until November 8, 1998. On that date, he was visiting Port Allen, Louisiana, and decided to break into a randomly-chosen hotel room. While awaiting trial for the rape charges there, he spontaneously confessed to the murders he had committed in Texas and at least nine rapes. Two weeks later, detectives from Texas were dispatched to interrogate him from his jail cell in Louisiana.

Less than a month after his conviction, on July 18, Bible was involved in a car accident that almost killed him. On that date, he was being driven to the state's death row at the Polunsky Unit, when a pickup truck driving along the U.S. Route 190 accidentally swerved off the road and hit the prison van in a head-on collision. The crash caused two fatalities - 40-year-old prison guard John Bennett and 65-year-old Ruth Anglin, the driver of the pickup truck - and injured three others: Bible; the second prison guard, 45-year-old Steven Gardner, and another motorist, Sheena Bates, who crashed into the back of one of the vehicles. This motion was the subject of objection by Bible's attorneys, who argued that their client should be executed either via firing squad or nitrogen hypoxia due to his health issues. In response, Assistant Texas Attorney General Stephen Hoffman said that this was simply an attempt to delay the execution and that Bible's medical treatment showed that there would be no issue to find a vein suitable for IV insertion. While he had no final words, reporters from The Houston Chronicle claimed that he had uttered the words "It hurts" and "Burning" after being injected, but this has never been officially verified.