Eugene Broxton

Eugene Alvin Broxton (born February 27, 1955) is an American murderer and suspected serial killer. Convicted and sentenced to death for the May 1991 murder of a woman in Channelview, Texas, Broxton is also the sole suspect in four other murders for which he has never been convicted but remains the sole suspect.

Crimes With an extensive criminal record in both his native Louisiana and Texas, Broxton's first major crime occurred on June 3, 1986, when he fired two shots at Pasadena police officer Walt Hays while fleeing from a robbery. Hays survived and then arrested his assailant in an apartment complex shortly afterward. After stealing all of the man's valuables, Broxton stole his car but abandoned it the very next day. Thirteen days later, Broxton abducted 59-year-old TV guide salesman Gordon John Miller in an area between Federal Road and the I-10. In front of witnesses, Broxton stabbed Miller to death before fleeing in his truck. Five days later, he attempted to attack a man named Elbert Madden, who survived the assault.

Arrest, trials and appeals Two days after his attack on the Dockens couple, Broxton was arrested by police officers in Houston, who had been looking for him after they had found his fingerprints in the apartment and car of Stuckwisch. His requests were denied multiple times until 2000, when a Harris County federal judge ruled that race-based testimony should be considered inadmissible. As the attorney general presiding over his original 1992 trial, John Comyn, had allowed a psychologist who claimed that race should play a factor in sentencing testify, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled that Broxton, along with four other convicts, should be granted new hearings.

Status As of February 2024, Eugene Broxton remains on death row at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, awaiting execution.