{"id":2030325,"date":"2023-09-13T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/serial-killer-and-former-police-officer-anthony-sully-dies-on-death-row-at-a-california-prison\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:10:28","slug":"serial-killer-and-former-police-officer-anthony-sully-dies-on-death-row-at-a-california-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/serial-killer-and-former-police-officer-anthony-sully-dies-on-death-row-at-a-california-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Former police officer Anthony Sully, a serial killer, passes away on California&#8217;s death row."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fserial-killer-and-former-police-officer-anthony-sully-dies-on-death-row-at-a-california-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2030325&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former California\u2063 Police Officer Turned Serial\u2062 Killer Dies on Death Row<\/h2>\n<p>SAN QUENTIN,\u2064 Calif.\u2014A former California police officer turned serial killer who was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawyers-for-woman-on-death-row-request-president-trump-grant-clemency-a-week-before-execution\/\" title=\"Lawyers for woman on death row request President Trump grant clemency a week before execution\">death row<\/a> after being convicted of murdering six\u2062 people in the 1980s has died of natural causes, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Sully, 79, died Friday at a medical facility outside \u2063the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, where he had been housed for decades, according to the California Department of Corrections and \u2063Rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>The Marin County Coroner\u2019s Office\u2064 will determine Mr. Sully\u2019s official cause of death, the department said in a news release Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/sports\/ironman-wisconsin-competitor-dies-after-he-fell-ill-during-the-bike-portion-of-sundays-triathlon-5489749\">Ironman\u2063 Wisconsin Competitor Dies After He Fell Ill \u2063During the Bike\u200d Portion of Sunday\u2019s Triathlon<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/11\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/man-dies-after-driving-vehicle-over-cliff-during-police-pursuit-in-southern-california-5488739\">Man Dies After Driving Vehicle Over Cliff During Police Pursuit in \u200cSouthern California<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/8\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Sully \u200bwas sentenced to death in June 1986 for the slayings of Kathryn Barrett, 24; Barbara Searcy, 22; Gloria\u200d Jean Fravel, 24; Brendan Oakden, 19; Michael Thomas, 24; \u200band Phyllis Melendez, 20.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were beaten, stabbed, and shot inside an electrical supply warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area \u200cin \u20621983. Three of the\u2062 bodies were found stuffed into barrels dumped at Golden \u2064Gate Park in San Francisco, \u2063the San Jose Mercury News reported. Detectives found his fingerprints on some of \u2063the bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sully was a Bay Area police officer from 1966 to 1974.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained at his sentencing that he \u200ddid not get a fair trial, telling the judge, \u201cI am not\u2064 a monster, not a maniac, not subhuman,\u201d according to the\u200b Mercury News, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/serial-killer-and-former-police-officer-anthony-sully-dies-on-death-row-at-a-california-prison\/\" title=\"Former police officer Anthony Sully, a serial killer, passes away on California's death row.\">citing news accounts<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Another\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-capital-punishment-advocates-and-opponents-fighting-to-save-oklahoma-death-row-inmate\/\" title=\"Capital punishment advocates and opponents battle to save Oklahoma death row inmate.\">death \u200crow inmate<\/a>, 71-year-old Ronald L. Sanders, \u200bdied Tuesday of natural causes at California Medical Facility in Vacaville,\u2063 corrections officials said. Mr. Sanders was sentenced to death in March 1982 for the murder \u200cof Janice Dishroon Allen, 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Sully, a former California police officer turned serial killer, has died of natural causes at the age of 79. Sully was on death row for murdering six people in the 1980s. 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