Crime doesnt pay
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Cigarette Smoking Man — 4 years ago(February 13, 2022 05:08 PM)
The so-called mastermind of the abduction, rape and murder of University of New Mexico student Linda Lee Daniels has died in prison, almost 29 years to the day when his crime sent shock waves throughout the Albuquerque community.
Johnny Zinn, who had been housed at the long-term care unit of the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas, died last week, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Alex Tomlin confirmed Wednesday. He was 74.
Zinn had been serving a sentence of life plus 96 years after being found guilty of first-degree murder and 18 other charges in Daniels’ death.
Daniels, a 22-year-old anthropology major, was abducted Jan. 12, 1986, outside her boyfriend’s house in the Northeast Heights by three men who had been sent by Zinn, then 45, on a search for a woman to star in a pornographic video.
The three spotted her in a grocery store and followed her.
The men – Sidney Thomas Sliger, then 20, Wallace Randolph Pierce, then 24, and James Scartaccini, then 17 – were to be paid $1,500 apiece by Zinn, according to court testimony.
Instead of shooting a video, however, Daniels was taken to an East Central motel, where the men took turns raping her at knifepoint. She was later driven to the Jemez Mountains northwest of Albuquerque, where she was shot in the head and left under a bridge. Scartaccini led authorities to her body Jan. 20, 1986.
News of Daniels’ disappearance terrorized the city, sending many women to self-defense classes and sales of firearms skyrocketing. The publicity of her disappearance was the reason given, according to testimony, as to why Zinn ordered Daniels’ death.
Pierce, believed to be the one who fired the fatal shot, was sentenced to 66 years in prison. Sliger pleaded guilty to rape and was sentenced to three years. Scartaccini, given a controversial immunity deal in exchange for his cooperation, served no prison time. He hanged himself in 1990.
Tomlin said she was not at liberty to say what Zinn died of, whether he had been in failing health or how long he had been in the long-term care unit, citing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act confidentiality laws.
But previous news accounts indicate that Zinn had been transferred to the unit, which houses ailing and elderly inmates, in early 2013. -
cryptoflovecraft — 4 years ago(February 14, 2022 06:59 PM)
Never heard of that case before. Interesting.
Zinn - whoever he was- was an idiot for trusting other people to carry out his orders. Happens all the time. One person snitches on the rest of the gang and the whole gang is arrested. The snitch who was given immunity hung himself. Fat lot of good it did him! If Zinn had carried out the crime by himself he probably would've gotten away with it. -
WarrenPeace — 4 years ago(February 15, 2022 02:12 AM)
Same thing with the Manson family.
If that one chick had kept her trap shut when she was in jail and had not bragged about it to another inmate then just maybe they would have gotten away with it.
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cryptoflovecraft — 4 years ago(February 15, 2022 01:19 PM)
Yep, Susan Atkins. Not the brightest bulb in the Manson Family.
And, of course, there's ex-Family member Linda Kasabian who was granted immunity for testifying against Manson and the others during the trial and she was actually at the Tate house on the night of the murders. Her role in the murders has never been fully revealed. -
WarrenPeace — 4 years ago(February 15, 2022 02:13 AM)
"Zinn had been serving a sentence of life plus 96 years after being found guilty of first-degree murder and 18 other charges in Daniels’ death."
So are they going to keep his dead body in prison for 96 more years?
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