GUILTY SC - Tiffany Souers, 20, Clemson student, found strangled, 26 May 2006

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

AP Wire | 06/09/2006 | Some recall serial rape suspect as 'sweet' boy, others as 'evil'

To the few who remember him in this small lakeside community, Jerry Inman will always be "Bucky," a "regular rambunctious boy ... a real sweet little guy" from 20 years ago.
But authorities who arrested him ... have a different view.

"I don't think he is bad, I think he is evil," said Sheriff David Davenport, whose deputies elicited a confession from the heavily tattooed Inman in the hours after his surrender in a church parking lot near his parents' home........



Nine months before, Inman was a free man for the first time in his adult life, after spending the past 18 years in prisons in North Carolina and then Florida for homosexual and heterosexual rapes committed in those states as a teenager.......


"I have known the family for 20 or 25 years and they are some of the best people I know," said lifelong resident Kathleen James, 68. They belonged to the same church, Swansylvania Baptist Church, and became instant friends when they helped her cope with her mother's death.

Jerry Buck Inman "attended our church and was in our youth group," she said. "And he was just a regular rambunctious boy, like all the rest of them. He was a real sweet little guy......."



But earlier in the week Hensley told WATE-TV that Inman seemed "frustrated with his life. I think he had some dreams and had some goals and had some aspirations, and he didn't know exactly how to get there."

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

WLTX News 19 Clemson Murder Suspect Moved to Lee County

... Friday, officers with the state corrections department transported 35-year-old Jerry Inman from the Pickens County Jail to the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville. Authorities say the jail is overcrowded and it was a strain on resources to keep Inman there. Inman also is considered an assault and escape risk, so local officials asked that he be sent to a more secure facility...

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

FOXNews.com - Souers' Family: Accused Bikini Slayer Should Have Been in Prison - Crime

... Ever since he was released from prison in September, police said he has confessed to hunting for women to attack...

 

[panthera]

Agreed. I think as he was raping her she was fighting him like a wildcat and he grabbed her bikini top and strangled her. He may have intended just to render her unconscious but not kill her, however, dead is dead, and he is toast in SC.

Poor, sweet Tiffany.

One of the news articles said he didn't intend to kill her, but he knew she was dead when he left her apartment. It really must have disturbed him so much that all he could think of was trying to get Tiffany's money out of two bank ATM machines.

 

[Bobbisangel]

One of the news articles said he didn't intend to kill her, but he knew she was dead when he left her apartment. It really must have disturbed him so much that all he could think of was trying to get Tiffany's money out of two bank ATM machines.

It disturbed him so much that when LE caught up with him he was out riding around looking for his next victim. If he didn't intend to kill her maybe he shouldn't have then :furious: From what has been said the violence had gotten worse with each attack.

 

[englishleigh]

One of the news articles said he didn't intend to kill her, but he knew she was dead when he left her apartment. It really must have disturbed him so much that all he could think of was trying to get Tiffany's money out of two bank ATM machines.

I have just skimmed the latest articles, so I didn't catch that he said he didn't mean to. Yeah, right. I don't believe he didn't mean to for a second. :furious:

 

[Bobbisangel]

It sounds like Tiffany's father might be struggling with the thoughts that would haunt all of us. I hope that they can somehow get through this.

WREG-TV Memphis - Bikini Murder Suspect Captured in East Tennessee

... "How he destroyed an almost and most perfect life, he destroyed the life and for what? You know to destroy it and how long did it take, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, I mean really," said Jim Souer, Tiffany's father...

I believe that parents are so torn over wanting to know exactly what happened and how long it took and not wanting to know anything because that is what will remain in your head. One of the witnesses to my daughter's murder told me what she saw. We happened to meet at my daughter's place of work and she just told me. Part of me wanted to know and part of me didn't. I think that we feel that if we don't know our imaginations will just run wild but if we know then we can never get that picture out of our minds. Part of us wants to know how much or how little our child suffered but once you know you wish that you didn't know. It's a battle of the mind. I think one of the worst parts is knowing that your child knew he/she was going to die.
You can't help but think of the terror that they must have felt. It really is horrible.

My heart goes out to Tiffiney's parents and every other parent who has to go through this. The grief of losing your child is nightmare enough but everything else involved just makes it worse and it is something that you can never truly erase from your mind. No one likes to know about or see their child in pain...like when they are little. Knowing that your child suffered horribly and you weren't there to stop it is hard.

 

[Bobbisangel]

AP Wire | 06/09/2006 | Some recall serial rape suspect as 'sweet' boy, others as 'evil'

To the few who remember him in this small lakeside community, Jerry Inman will always be "Bucky," a "regular rambunctious boy ... a real sweet little guy" from 20 years ago.
But authorities who arrested him ... have a different view.

"I don't think he is bad, I think he is evil," said Sheriff David Davenport, whose deputies elicited a confession from the heavily tattooed Inman in the hours after his surrender in a church parking lot near his parents' home........



Nine months before, Inman was a free man for the first time in his adult life, after spending the past 18 years in prisons in North Carolina and then Florida for homosexual and heterosexual rapes committed in those states as a teenager.......


"I have known the family for 20 or 25 years and they are some of the best people I know," said lifelong resident Kathleen James, 68. They belonged to the same church, Swansylvania Baptist Church, and became instant friends when they helped her cope with her mother's death.

Jerry Buck Inman "attended our church and was in our youth group," she said. "And he was just a regular rambunctious boy, like all the rest of them. He was a real sweet little guy......."



But earlier in the week Hensley told WATE-TV that Inman seemed "frustrated with his life. I think he had some dreams and had some goals and had some aspirations, and he didn't know exactly how to get there."

I wondered if he didn't have a church background. I find it interesting that when Beth started talking to him about the Lord that he stopped. It must have touched something deep within him for the moment anyway. I honestly believe that her talking to him about the Lord and her constant prayers kept him from hurting/raping her. I just can't see any other reason why he just stopped. I know that miracles still do happen but I wish that we would see more of them.

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

I wondered if he didn't have a church background. I find it interesting that when Beth started talking to him about the Lord that he stopped. It must have touched something deep within him for the moment anyway. I honestly believe that her talking to him about the Lord and her constant prayers kept him from hurting/raping her. I just can't see any other reason why he just stopped.

I completely agree with all of this. And I still do believe that he didn't intend to kill her that night. I think that she did what most of us would do, myself included - she probably fought him like hell, and he tried to quiet her. I realize that LE said that he got more violent with each attack but they're talking about the 3 recent attacks. One of them resulted in no rape because the victim spoke of God, and one resulted in murder. It's not hard to find a progressively more violent situation across only 3 cases when 2 of them ended up like they did. About the ATM, maybe he was hoping to get some money to flee further away. And about looking for more victims, I don't think that he can control it. But I do believe that he's the type to feel remorse. In other words, he's an animal but not a sociopathic one from what I've seen and read. I think that he does have emotions but that when he gets that urge, he cannot control it.

Regardless of everything else, I hope that he is punished appropriately this time for the pain that he's caused this family and for taking that wonderful human being from this world.

 

[nanandjim]

...I still do believe that he didn't intend to kill her that night. I think that she did what most of us would do, myself included - she probably fought him like hell, and he tried to quiet her...

I don't think that he was merely trying to quiet her. I think that she enraged him by fighting back the way that she did, and he showed her who was boss by strangling the life out of her.

He could have knocked her down or out and run, but he decided it was more important to kill her. I hope that he gets the death penalty because that's what he deserves.

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

I don't think that he was merely trying to quiet her. I think that she enraged him by fighting back the way that she did, and he showed her who was boss by strangling the life out of her.

He could have knocked her down or out and run, but he decided it was more important to kill her. I hope that he gets the death penalty because that's what he deserves.

Although I don't necessarily agree about why this happened, I do agree that he deserves the death penalty.

 

[LaMer]

I wondered if he didn't have a church background. I find it interesting that when Beth started talking to him about the Lord that he stopped. It must have touched something deep within him for the moment anyway. I honestly believe that her talking to him about the Lord and her constant prayers kept him from hurting/raping her. I just can't see any other reason why he just stopped. I know that miracles still do happen but I wish that we would see more of them.

I don't believe for one minute this piece of $hit was touched by Beth talking to him about the Lord. He probably was so excited in his hunt and attack, he pre-ejaculated and was unable to rape her. jmo

 

[dottierainbow]

Actually, I believe as she was praying, he may of thought of his mom who was a praying woman.

Amy

 

[PrayersForMaura]

I completely agree with all of this. And I still do believe that he didn't intend to kill her that night. I think that she did what most of us would do, myself included - she probably fought him like hell, and he tried to quiet her. I realize that LE said that he got more violent with each attack but they're talking about the 3 recent attacks. One of them resulted in no rape because the victim spoke of God, and one resulted in murder. It's not hard to find a progressively more violent situation across only 3 cases when 2 of them ended up like they did. About the ATM, maybe he was hoping to get some money to flee further away. And about looking for more victims, I don't think that he can control it. But I do believe that he's the type to feel remorse. In other words, he's an animal but not a sociopathic one from what I've seen and read. I think that he does have emotions but that when he gets that urge, he cannot control it.

Regardless of everything else, I hope that he is punished appropriately this time for the pain that he's caused this family and for taking that wonderful human being from this world.

I agree with you.

 

[PrayersForMaura]

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/D966048DFD8EB73C8625718900167BF5?OpenDocument

The investigator, Rhonda Jackson, said certain details of the case were similar to the rape in Sevierville.

Inman denied the Henagar rape and said he was "tired of talking," Jackson said.

"He said, 'I've already admitted to three crimes, and that's all I've done,'" Jackson said.

Jackson said she was also investigating whether Inman could be responsible for other crimes in Alabama. She noted that his Chevrolet Camaro was found burned Feb. 28 off a county road about 45 miles northeast of Birmingham.

Inman told authorities then that he had been driving to Louisiana to seek construction work when his car caught fire, and that he hitchhiked home. Jackson noted that his car was found off a county road, not an interstate, which she said suggested he was not just passing through.

 

[Angels_Not_Forgotten]

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/D966048DFD8EB73C8625718900167BF5?OpenDocument

thats ALL hes done?! IS that not enough? That peice of crap, not ONE bone in my body believes that he didnt go in there ready to kill if he had to!

 

[concernedperson]

The burned car on a country road in Alabama is interesting too.I feel he was scouting his victims then or he had one and burned the car to hide evidence.In any case they all escalate it is just we aren't privy to their time frame until it turns into murder.

 

[OriginalJerseyGirl]

The burned car on a country road in Alabama is interesting too.I feel he was scouting his victims then or he had one and burned the car to hide evidence.

That's what worries me.

The article also mentions definitively that Inman entered the apartment through an unlocked door.

 

[panthera]

I wondered if he didn't have a church background. I find it interesting that when Beth started talking to him about the Lord that he stopped. It must have touched something deep within him for the moment anyway. I honestly believe that her talking to him about the Lord and her constant prayers kept him from hurting/raping her. I just can't see any other reason why he just stopped. I know that miracles still do happen but I wish that we would see more of them.

I've been away a few days and just saw this post. I absolutely agree with you. I saw Beth on tv several times now. It does seem that her speaking of God's love did touch him at the moment. Her story reminded me of how Ashley Smith handled her situation when Brian Nicholls forced himself into her apartment the night after the Atlanta courthouse shooting.

 

[chicoliving]

Pretrial motions were to be argued Friday in the case of a convicted sex offender charged in the slaying of a 20-year-old Clemson University student who was strangled with a bikini top.

Jerry Buck Inman, 36, faces kidnapping, rape and murder charges in the death of Tiffany Marie Souers.

Souers, an engineering student from Ladue, Mo., was found inside her off-campus apartment May 26, 2006. Police said a bikini top used to choke her was still around her neck.

Inman's attorney, Symmes Culbertson, said Wednesday that pretrial motions would be considered but would not provide details. A spokeswoman for prosecutor Bob Ariail also confirmed motions would be heard Friday.

Ariail has said he intends to seek the death penalty for Inman.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296558,00.html