Norman Flowers

Norman Keith Flowers (born March 15, 1974) is an American serial killer who raped and strangled four women to death in their apartments in Las Vegas from 2004 to 2005. DNA left at each crime scene eventually linked him to the killings and he was arrested, convicted, and received three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Early life Flowers was born on March 15, 1974, and raised in a dysfunctional family in Compton, California, an area known for poverty and violence. He experienced physical and sexual abuse and was once abandoned. In 1993, Flowers was convicted of burglary, robbery, and an arson-fire that killed a dog. In 1999, he was convicted of the unlawful use of a deadly weapon and burglary, crimes for which he was later released in 2003.

Murders Flowers' first victim was 28-year-old Keysha Brown, who he raped, stabbed, and strangled to death in her apartment on October 18, 2004. He left her body in her bathtub where it would be discovered the next day.

After this, Flowers met Debra Quarles, who he formed a relationship with. From there he met Quarles' daughter, Sheila, 18. He fathered a boy around this same time. They did, however, break up at some point. On March 24, 2005, Sheila stayed home from her job at a Starbucks, while Debra left for her job. Sometime during that day, Flowers let himself into the apartment and attacked Sheila in the apartment bathroom. He beat, raped, and strangled her to death. He left her body face up in the bathtub which was full of hot water. He then took her cell phone, bank card, and jewelry.

On May 4, Flowers killed his last two victims within eight hours of one another; he burglarized the apartment belonging to Marilee Coote, 45, whom he bludgeoned, assaulted, and strangled to death. Hours later, he knocked on the door of Juanita Curry, but she failed to answer. A few more hours later, Flowers burglarized another apartment, that of Rena Gonzalez, 25, whom he raped and strangled with a telephone cord. In the sentencing phase of the trial, Flowers' mother Eleanor pleaded for the jury to not sentence him to death and argued that the son she knew was a caring, loyal young man.