David Alan Gore

David Alan Gore (August 21, 1953 – April 12, 2012) was an American serial killer who committed six murders in Vero Beach and Indian River County, Florida, from 1981 to 1983. He was accompanied in several of the murders by his cousin, Fred Waterfield, and both have collectively been dubbed the Killing Cousins. Gore was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in 2012, having been on Florida's death row for twenty-eight years, while Waterfield is currently serving two consecutive life sentences.

In 1976, prior to the murders, police jailed and questioned both Gore and Waterfield after 20-year-old Angela Hommell Austin accused them of raping her at gunpoint. The cousins insisted the sex was consensual, and they were not charged in her case. Gore targeted at least four additional women who escaped with their lives.

Fred Waterfield was born on September 29, 1952, in New Jersey. He is a former high school football player. Gore told police "I started dragging her back and she was trying, like, resisting, fighting me, so I threw her to the ground. That's when I shot her in the head". The boy alerted police, which led to a 90-minute standoff between Gore and law enforcement. The police arrested Gore and rescued Martin, who was found in the attic naked, handcuffed, and with electrical cords tied around her legs.

Waterfield was originally imprisoned at Okeechobee Correctional Institution, but was later moved to Hardee Correctional Institution. He has maintained his innocence and his family has made efforts on his behalf to prove his innocence.