Lexington police detective Rob Wilson told WKRC-TV in Cincinnati that similarities between the attack of the 19-year-old on Oct. 27, 1961, and other murders has prompted a review of deaths connected to Nolan Ray George... He has not been charged in Betty Gail Brown's death.
"The manner of death, the absence of sexual activity in the situation, the violence of it there are certainly similarities," Wilson told the Cincinnati television station... Police could find no apparent motive. Robbery was ruled out because Brown's purse and other belongings were lying untouched beside her. She had not been raped.
That year [1982], Smith was a young road deputy for the Butler County Sheriff's Office -- Hamilton is the county seat -- when he got the call to help secure the scene where the body of a young woman had been found nude and strangled in a field outside town. Smith, born and raised in Hamilton, knew just about everybody in town, and he was shocked to learn that it was the body of Cindy Garland Rose...
A couple of weeks later, the young deputy again was called to a crime scene. The body of another woman had been dumped at the end of a dark, wooded road in nearby Reily Township, 15 miles west of Hamilton. Tammy King, 23, of the Price Hill area of Cincinnati, had been strangled and left nude.
Within weeks, investigators had George in custody on the Rose murder, his fingerprints matching those taken from a beer can found near her body. George, in his mid 30s, had arrived back only recently in Hamilton from Michigan after having strangled two women in Michigan. His Michigan prison sentence, originally 40-60 years, had been shortened to a dozen by higher courts and plea deals.
A suspected serial killer is facing a lifetime prison sentence after being convicted Thursday afternoon of first-degree murder for a Pontiac woman's 1968 death Relatives of 36-year-old victim Gwendolyn Perry said justice was finally served
Perry was strangled, her body found with her stockings tied around her neck on Dec. 8, 1968, off a lane in a heavily thicketed area near Giddings Road and Perry Street in Pontiac
Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor John Skrzynski told jurors that the deaths of Perry and two other woman who were linked to George -- Frances Brown and Cindy Garland Rose -- bore eerie similarities, such as the physical descriptions of the women, the types of areas in which their bodies were found and the injuries they suffered.
Unfortunately most of the links in this thread no longer work, and those that do work provide very little information about George or the specifics of his crimes.
Nolan Ray George
MDOC Number: 124226
SID Number: 0512739T
Name: NOLAN RAY GEORGE
Racial Identification: White
Gender: Male
Hair: Gray
Eyes: Blue
Height: 6′ 0″
Weight: 185 lbs.
Date of Birth: 05/06/1943
MDOC STATUS
Current Status: Prisoner Earliest Release Date: LIFE
Assigned Location: Alger Correctional Facility Maximum Discharge Date: LIFE
Security Level: II
ALIASES
NOLAN GEORGE
NOLAN R GEORGE
NOLAN RAY GEORGE
NORMAN LEE BECKNER
MARKS, SCARS & TATTOOS
Tattoo- Left Shoulder – “Brenda”
Tattoo- Right Forearm – “Mom”
Tattoo- Right Shoulder – “Jessie”
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Known Victims
Della Mae Miller [Covington, KY 1967]
Francis Brown [Lake Orion, MI 1968] (pregnant) (convicted)
Gwendolyn Perry [MI December 1968] (convicted)
Delores Blaszcyck [MI 1968]
Cindy Garland Rose [Hamilton, OH 1982]l (pregnant)
Tammy King [Cincinnati, OH 1982]
LINKS:
Nolan Ray George – possible serial killer MI, OH, KY
PEOPLE OF MI V NOLAN RAY GEORGE (Per Curiam Opinion)
https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/michigan/miedce/2:2015cv14057/306218/11/0.pdf