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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (798336)	7/31/2014 1:08:42 AM
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Life in Prison is not all its cracked up to be. ================ The convicted murderer in the United States serves, on average, just six years in prison. -- (Atlantic Monthly; Sept. '97, "A Grief Like No Other") Dawson was released ... Probation officers sent the court their third arrest warrant for Dawson October 15 after he again failed to appear for a meeting. But, again, they couldn't find him. By then, Dawson's victims already were falling, police say. Timothy Carl Dawson eluded not only a 10 year prison term in a plea deal that broke state law, he missed being sent to jail when he stood before a judge two months before police say he went on a killing spree that left five people dead last month. The attack on his girlfriend notwithstanding, little in Dawson's past could have hinted at the astonishing outburst of violence that, police say, started with a home invasion slaying October 5, 1998 in DeKalb County and included the October 15 killing of a young man at a College Park Days Inn and the October 18 execution style murders of three men in the Atlanta Hilton and Towers. Even so, Dawson, 37, should have been in a state prison for the attack on his girlfriend, and he could have been locked up in the Fulton County Jail at an August hearing. Probation officials warned that Dawson remained a threat to the woman and to society. Dawson's run-ins with the law began in 1989. He was convicted of theft by receiving in Baldwin County and sentenced to five years in prison and five years probation. He spent a few months in a low-security work camp and was freed in a statewide early-release program. He was still on probation in 1995 when he was charged with raping his girlfriend. Shortly after the arrest, he was shot three times by an Atlanta police officer who was holding Dawson after the same woman complained that he was stalking her and trying to keep her from testifying. While in jail, Dawson had to undergo sex crime counseling. A therapist determined "simply that he accepted no responsibility for his crime" and was still dangerous. Dawson was released in July 1997 and later stopped reporting for visits with parole officers. Probation officers sent the court their third arrest warrant for Dawson October 15 after he again failed to appear for a meeting. But, again, they couldn't find him. By then, Dawson's victims already were falling, police say. First was Raycell Mason, 44, who was shot several times in the head at his home. Then October 15, the same day the third warrant request was sent, LaDarris Hawkin's body was found at a Days Inn on Old National Highway. Three days after Hawkins' death, three men were found similarly executed in the Atlanta Hilton and Towers hotel in downtown Atlanta. Phillip Dover, 31, and Ronald Gutkowski, 51, and Gerrold Shropshire, 50, were executed. "The system is far too lenient with respect to people who violate probation conditions. I don't think the average defendant in Fulton County feels he has to be accountable." "The bottom line is, he slipped through. He was incorrigible. But only history tells us that." pomc.com