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UPDATE AND SENTENCE AT BOTTOM OF STORY:

A convicted killer from Missouri has pleaded guilty to killing a family in Pampa, Texas in 2005.

Twenty six year-old Levi King (a.) changed his plea this morning in a Lubbock, Tx, courtroom. But King's story started hundreds of miles away near Anderson, Mo.

A relative of 70 year-old Orlie McCool and his 47 year-old daughter-in-law Dawn Burr McCool found them shot to death in a rural Pineville, MO., home on Sept. 30, 2005.

Orlie McCool was shot once with a 9 mm weapon, while Dawn McCool suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Ballistics tests determined that shell casings found at the scene matched a 9 mm Smith and Wesson handgun taken from the home of Scott King, Levi King's father.

In the commission of the McCool's murders, Orlie McCool's red 1995 Dodge Dakota pickup truck was stolen. About 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 30, 2005, agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency near El Paso arrested Levi King after stopping a red 1995 Dodge Dakota pickup that was being driven erratically and attempting to re-enter the US from the Mexican side of the border.

Cops found four loaded weapons in the stolen truck. Three of the guns belonged to his father...one of the guns belonged to Orlie McCool.

A name tag bearing the name Brian Conrad was found in stolen pickup when King was arrested. That name tag led investigators to a similar crime in the Texas Panhandle.

The same day that the McCool's were found murdered, about 375 miles away authorities in the Texas Panhandle were called to a farmhouse in rural Pampa, Texas. Brian Conrad, 31, his wife, Michell Conrad, 35, and her 14-year-old son Zach Doan and the family's dog, Molly were shot to death. Michelle Conrad was six months pregnant at the time of her death.

Michell Conrad's 10 year-old daughter, Robin, was the only survivor of the family massacre. The 9-1-1 call that she made following the shotgun slayings of her family members had never been heard by the public until today when it was played for the jury. It's not clear whether or not she will be called upon to testify during the penalty phase of King's trial.

Investigators say ballistics tests link one of the guns that King was in possession of at the time of his arrest to the Missouri and Texas murders.

King was released in July of 2005 from prison to a halfway house in St. Louis after he served 17 months of a 14-year sentence on a 2003 arson and burglary conviction.

King left the halfway house on Sept. 23, 2005 saying he was going to work, and never came back. No one at the halfway house called cops to tell them that King had violated conditions of his parole.

On April 18, 2008, King pleaded guilty to the McCools murders after prosecutors took the death penalty off the table. He was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life without the possibility of parole for the murders of Orlie and Dawn McCool.
UPDATE 10-07-09:
Levi King has been sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of the Conrads and their son.
Robin Doan, the lone survivor of Kings murederous rampage told him during the penalty phase that, "she forgives him."
She also said she felt guilty about not being able to save her family, The Pampa News reported. "Why did God pick me to be here and not them?" she said.
The jury foreperson says that one lone juror was the holdout on King receiving the death penalty, and that he was "flabbergasted" that a death sentence was not the outcome in the case.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was really cold hearted,awful thing. But no matter how crazy it sounds,I seen some good in his eyes,I just think he don't know that part of himself. He's a lost soul,I hope he gets the help he needs there in orii

Anonymous said...

Um I lived near him growing up and he is crazy!

Anonymous said...

This P.O.S should have been put to death! You saw some good in his eyes? Then you go share his cell with him. As for the juror who held out on the death penalty, I hope that you live a long, long life so you can live a regretful miserable existence! He killed for the smell of gunpowder!

Anonymous said...

The lone juror that held out was for the death penalty. This guy should have ended up like Danny Rolling.

anonymous said...

Also he didn't KILL for smell of gunpowder. You don't know what all it was like for him. You may have grew up next to him. But you didn't KNOW him. Its WRONG what he did BIG time. He knows and I know. But for me I've known him 20 years actually longer. I know what he was put through as a child. nO EXCUSE I know at all. That should NOT have happened. I do believe he snapped because of how his dad and stuff was. I'm sorry he did what he did. That's WRONG and MESSED up. These people were innocent people. I just do believe a lot more went on in HIS house than what ppl think.

Cheriska said...

Yes. And same and worse happen to others who fight the desire to feel "good" their selfish self! he allowed himself the luxury of relef at innocents expense! Get a damn shrink. Dont kill.

Cheriska said...

He killed to enjoy the release! Evil, selfish bastard. Zero remors . Pay to keep this pos alive? Ugh. Mistake.

Cheriska said...

To those who see "good" too bad wasn't you got to meet those good eyes. Not an innocent child!

Anonymous said...

Re Levi King trial. Re the Juror who didn't commit to death penalty, I think it was a clever strategy of King when Robyn began her testimony he asked if it would be easier on Robyn if he left the room which Prosecution disallowed. I think that one Juror was wrongly 'effected' by King's concern for Robyn's feelings and so reconsidered death penalty uncomfortable that King appeared human after all. King's tricks worked I believe. And sickening to hear his reasonable life in jail now.

Anonymous said...

I just finished watching the A&E episode, (The Killer Speaks). After watching it, and 10 years after the murders to hear him say that he has no remorse, or no regrets. He feels absolutely nothing for those he killed nor their families. I personally feel that the life sentence was indeed the wrong sentence. He should have gotten the death penalty. No doubt that he knew right from wrong. He speaks with an average level of intelligence. He turned on the light and shot a 10 year old child, in cold blood! And after 10 years he still feels NOTHING? That's animalistic characteristics! He should be put down the same as any other dangerous animal would be. If you have Netflix, they just added seasons 1 & 2 of the show. Levi King is the very first episode of season 1.

Anonymous said...

You are lucky. He has a psychopathy that makes people think he is somewhat normal but as he has said in interviews the release he felt after killing says he cannot have any form of normalcy in life. He is where he belongs.

Anonymous said...

that's not the point anymore it should be about what they going to do to him and I think Texas being Texas coward down to the death penalty when you kill a baby in the womb they should not be no trial

Unknown said...

His siblings never did anything wrong. So don't even try it. HE is broken and deserves to die.

Unknown said...

His siblings never did anything wrong. So don't even try it. HE is broken and deserves to die.

Anonymous said...

i can only hope and pray that someone in there will put his miserable life to an End ! yes Kill him in a very Ugly way too , he's not a person , just Human Waste ! Ohh and to he Juror that held out against 11 others I hope you live for a very very long time so you can know everyday of the rest of you life you and Only you ! let this Scum - bucket live instead of being put to DEath , you sick as he SOB !

dmbc said...

I really think he is sorry for what he done it was thoughtful of him to ask to leave court room to make it easier for her. People can only stand so much of being mistreated by other until everything is blocked out.

Anonymous said...

I agree that this psychopath definitely should have been given the death penalty asap. I just don't understand why he is being compared to an animal? There is no animal who ever commits evil but for humans. They are the meanest, most sadistic, creatures on the planet. It is unfair to animals to compare this POS to the innocent.

Unknown said...

Levi King.....Why should he breathe air when he stole the air from all his victims? Sickening...he even killed their dog. Garbage people.

Jimmy Dale said...

Levi King serial killer....

When i hear oh what a crappy home he grew up in he can not help it, i think what crap that is!!!! With that thinking my 4 siblings and myself should all be serial killers... We all grew up getting belittled and physically beat by fist, belts, and boards by our drunkin fatrer... Gun holes in out ceilings and walls, he shot my dog and twisted my 2 cats heads off in front of us... Arrested over 15 times through the years and 4 duis... Finally killed a man in 1973 by beating him to death...

Dont tell me thats a reason for us to hurt people too.. Not a single one of us have ever been arrested nor do we drink and both my brother in 1978 and myself in 1984 are ordained ministers... We all five have been married to only one person for 40 years to the oldest for 49 years....

Unknown said...

I just watched The Mind of a Murderer. Levi King is clearly a psychopath and there's no cure for that. His eyes are cold and dead - devoid of any emotion. He clearly has no remorse whatsoever. This is one of the worst mass murders I've ever heard of. He even shot the family dog before killing a pregnant mom, her husband and son. I felt so sad listening to Robin, the 10 year-old survivor, on 911. Yet, at trial, she forgave Levi and said she hoped he found forgiveness with God. What a remarkable person to do that - something I'm not sure I could have done. No question, Levi King would definitely have killed again.

Unknown said...

The "father" that raised that murdering filth helped to create a monster and should have been put in prison for life, also.

Anonymous said...

In reference to Levi King. He is not capable of remorse don't you get it? It's not his fault he feels no remorse! Both mental illness and a horrible upbringing has blocked all of that. You don't know what he had to endure. I believe he wouldn't have really cared one way or another if they killed him.Although those eyes of his don't seem to have that hate any more, they seem to have softened. He knows he needs to be there in a structured environment. Also I forgot to mention, Levi said, don't believe anything in those tv programs, they are trying to get ratings and half of that crap isn't true.

Anonymous said...

Praise God! I think it's wonderful that you and your siblings rose above the evil that you all endured! I am happy for all of you!

Unknown said...

Sometimes, you can't save an evil person. It is God's job to deal with, not ours. He still have to live by man's laws, so there are times that the death penalty is appropriate. This is one. He killed 5 people.

Unknown said...

He is a monster. He should have been removed from this earth. He caused far too much suffering. Use the money it would cost to feed and care for this p.o.s. for people that really need it. The U.S. imprisons the most people in the world. It has to STOP! We exterminate every other rabid life form that causes a terrible nuisance. Why stop with him?

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