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John Kennedy BAREFIELD
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Rape - Robbery
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: April 21,
1986
Date of birth: March 30,
1964
Victim profile:Cindy
Rounsaville (female, 25, Rice University student)
Method of murder: Shooting
Location: Harris County, Texas, USA
Status:
Executed
by lethal injection in Texas on March
12, 1997
Date of
Execution:
March 12, 1997
Offender:
John K.
Barefield #844
Last
Statement:
(Mumbled.)
Tell Mama I love her.
John Kennedy
Barefield Age: 32 (21) Executed: March 12, 1997 Education level: 9th grade
Barefield, his
brother and another accomplice abducted, robbed and raped Rice
University student Cindy Rounsaville, 25, on April 21, 1986. When
she tried to flee, Barefield shot her twice in the head.
His brother was
sentenced to 45 years in prison. The other accomplice got a life
sentence for an unrelated rape-abduction.
Texas Executes Killer Of
College Student
The New
York Times
March 14, 1997
The leader of a gang that hunted through Houston apartment complexes
for people to rape and rob during a six-month period in 1985-86 was
executed on Wednesday for the shooting death of a college student 11
years ago.
The convicted gang leader, John Kennedy Barefield,
32, died by lethal injection for the abduction, rape and murder of
Cindy Rounsaville, an architecture student at Rice University, in
1986. Mr. Barefield, who was born four months after the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy, was named for him.
In April 1986, Mr. Barefield and two other men
abducted Ms. Rounsaville, 25, at gunpoint in the parking lot of her
apartment complex. They forced her to withdraw $70 from an automatic
teller machine and raped her in a car.
Evidence at his trial showed he shot her twice in
the head as she was on her hands and knees in a field after running
from the car.
