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Benny Lee HODGE
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Robberies
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders: June 16/August 8, 1985
Date
of arrest:August 15,
1985
Date of birth:
August 9,
1951
Victims profile: Bessie and
Edwin Morris
/ Tammy Acker
Method of murder:
Shooting
/ Stabbing
with knife
Location: Letcher County, Kentucky, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on June 20, 1986 and November
22, 1996
The
United States Court of Appeals For the Sixth Circuit
HODGE, BENNY LEE,
DOB 8-9-51, was sentenced to death June 20, 1986 in Letcher County
along with Roger Epperson for the murder of Tammy Acker.
The murder occurred when Hodge and
two accomplices entered the home of a Fleming-Neon, Kentucky physician
on the night of August 8, 1985. They choked the man unconscious, and
stabbed his daughter, Tammy Acker, to death while robbing him of $1.9
million, handguns and jewelry. He was arrested in Florida on August
15, 1985.
He also received a second death
sentence on November 22, 1996 for the murder and robbery of Bessie and
Edwin Morris in their home in Gray Hawk, Kentucky on June 16, 1985.
Case #1: This killer, along with Roger Epperson, stabbed a female
victim 12 times with a butcher knife during a robbery at her father's
home in Letcher County in 1985. The victim's body was found with the
butcher knife stuck through her chest and imbedded in the floor. Also
her father was strangled with an electric cord but he survived. The
killer was arrested in Florida.
Case #2: This killer murdered an elderly couple during a robbery in
their home in Letcher County in 1985. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were found
with their hands and feet tied behind them. Mrs. Morris was shot twice
in the back. Mr. Morris died as a result of a gunshot wound to his
head, two blunt force head injuries and obstructed breathing caused by
a ligature gag.
Victims:
Case #1: Tammy Acker
*father survived strangulation with electric cord
Case #2: Bessie Morris and Edwin Morris
