Jury Urges Death for Killer of 3 Women
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A Santa Monica Superior Court jury recommended Monday that a former television cameraman die in the gas chamber for the 1984 murders of three Westside women.
After 3 1/2 days of deliberation, the panel of seven women and five men recommended that Dean Phillip Carter be executed at San Quentin State Prison.
The same jury last month convicted Carter, 33, on three counts of murder, two counts of rape and two counts of burglary in the string of assaults in April, 1984.
Carter, the son of a former police and fire chief in Nome, Alaska, was convicted of killing Culver City roommates Jillette L. Mills, 24, and Susan Lynn Knoll, 33, and their friend, Bonnie Ann Guthrie, 24, of West Los Angeles. Mills and Guthrie were also raped.
Carter was earlier convicted and sentenced to 56 years in prison for the March 29, 1984, rape and attempted strangulation of a 22-year-old Ventura County woman.
He still faces murder charges in Alameda and San Diego counties.
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