David Carpenter
Actor

David Carpenter Net Worth

David Carpenter is an actor who was born on May 06, 1930. He is best known for his roles in Lonesome Dove (1989), Gods and Generals (2003) and Bonnie & Clyde (2013). He has had a long and successful career in the entertainment industry.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor
Birth Day May 06, 1930
Age 93 YEARS OLD
Other names The Trailside Killer
Criminal penalty Death
Conviction(s) Attempted murder, attempted rape, kidnapping, murder, rape, robbery
Victims 7–10+
Span of killings August 19, 1979–May 2, 1981
Country United States
State(s) California
Date apprehended May 14, 1981

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1955

He married in 1955, a union that produced three children.

1960

Carpenter attempted to commit murder in 1960, for which he spent seven years in prison. In 1970, he was arrested for kidnapping and spent a further seven years behind bars. After his release, he was a suspect in the notorious Zodiac murders, although he was eventually cleared. His composite drawings were done by forensic artist/Marin Sheriff's detective Edmond D. Mauberret.

1979

In December 2009, San Francisco police reexamined evidence from the October 21, 1979, murder of Mary Frances Bennett. Bennett, 23 years old at the time of her murder, had been jogging at Lands End, San Francisco, when she was attacked and stabbed to death. A DNA sample obtained from the evidence was matched to Carpenter through state Department of Justice files. In February 2010, San Francisco police confirmed the match with a recently obtained sample from Carpenter.

1988

From 1979–1981, Carpenter raped and murdered five women in Santa Cruz and Marin Counties. On May 10, 1988, a San Diego jury convicted Carpenter of five counts of first degree murder in the slayings of Richard Stowers, Cynthia Moreland, Shauna May, Diane O'Connell and Anne Alderson. Carpenter was also pronounced guilty of raping two of the women and attempting to rape a third. He was sentenced to die in the gas chamber, and remains on San Quentin's death row.

1995

Following his conviction in San Diego for the Marin County murders, Carpenter was tried and subsequently convicted by a Santa Cruz jury for the murders of two other women in Santa Cruz County, Ellen Hansen and Heather Scaggs. The same jury also found Carpenter guilty of the attempted murder of Hansen's hiking companion Steven Haertle, the attempted rape of Hansen, and the rape of Scaggs. Hansen, who was a University of California, Davis student, has a memorial scholarship created in honor of her courage during the attack, which allowed Haertle to escape alive. In 1995, the Santa Cruz convictions were overturned due to juror misconduct. The California Supreme Court later reinstated the Santa Cruz convictions.

2013

The Trailside killings provide the context for Joyce Maynard's 2013 novel After Her.

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