Serial killer sent taunting note before execution

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HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- A psychiatrist who advised against executing Michael Ross received a posthumous letter from the serial killer that said, "Check, and mate. You never had a chance!"

Dr. Stuart Grassian said he initially was horrified when he read the note from Ross, who died by injection May 13 after waiving his appeals and asking to be executed.

"My next reaction was to laugh," Grassian said. "He wanted so much to win and he took such joy in winning, it was sort of funny. Look at the real result."

The letter was dated May 10 -- three days before Ross became the first person executed in New England in 45 years.

Ross, 45, fought off attempts by public defenders, death penalty foes and his own family to spare his life. He was sent to death row for the murders of four young women and girls in Connecticut in the 1980s, and confessed to four more such slayings in Connecticut and New York. He also raped most of the women.

Grassian was one of two psychiatrists who testified that Ross was not mentally competent to waive further appeals and "volunteer" to be executed. Other psychiatrists who interviewed Ross received no posthumous mailings.

Ross' attorney, T.R. Paulding, found the note to Grassian amusing.

"It is typical of Michael's sense of humor," Paulding said. "He always had a good sense of humor. It probably also reflects the frustration he felt after listening to what he probably would have termed the 'psychobabble' of Dr. Grassian."

Grassian said Ross' girlfriend, Susan Powers, also received a letter after Ross died. In it, Grassian said, "he told the truth. He said the real reason he was doing this is because he couldn't stand living like this anymore. He couldn't bear going back to Northern" Correctional Institution, where death row is located.

Ross had maintained throughout his final months that he wanted to die to spare the families of his victims any more pain.

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Dark humor... gotta love it.

[Hans Dolbrook 0]

what kind of girl would want to be his girlfriend after he admitted to killing and raping at least 8 women?that's more curious than any note he could have ever written!

[warden 0]

what kind of girl would want to be his girlfriend after he admitted to killing and raping at least 8 women?that's more curious than any note he could have ever written!  

676438[/snapback]

There are many crazy females out there we have them in britain,someone gets life for a shooting and no female around for 100 miles,a maniac rapes,tortures,and mutilates woman and children and these crazy b*****s come out the wood work like flies on a sh**,just goes to show you that for every crazy male that gets caught there is a crazier female out there looking and acting normal

[Super Pancake 1]

That kind of humor maybe robbed the satisfaction of the victims who wanted him dead! If they knew maybe they would of wanted him to go back to the crazy house for life just to see him squirm!

[HowdyDoo 0]

what kind of girl would want to be his girlfriend after he admitted to killing and raping at least 8 women?that's more curious than any note he could have ever written!  

676438[/snapback]

You think that's weird--look at Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the "Night Stalker", who was convicted for 13 murders and numerous rapes, actually had a woman (Doreen Lioy, age 41, was a freelance magazine editor with a bachelor's degree in English and an I.Q. of 152) marry him while he was convicted and sitting on death row.

Weird is weird.

[Super Pancake 1]

Maybe they get insurance checks or something from people who get executed by the state.

Edited June 14, 2005 by Super Pancake

[warden 0]

The more i think about it ,do i realy know my wife like i think i do

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what kind of girl would want to be his girlfriend after he admitted to killing and raping at least 8 women?that's more curious than any note he could have ever written!  

676438[/snapback]

Just comes to show there is a soul mate for EVERYBODY! I think it is sweet.