David Spears's Body: A Case Study

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The second victim was David Spears, age forty-three. On June 1, 1990 Spears’s body was found on the side of a highway in Citrus County, Florida. He was found with no clothes on except a baseball cap and had died of six bullet wounds to the torso. The third victim was Charles Carskaddon, age forty. His body was found on June 6, 1990 in Pasco County, Florida. He was shot several times in the chest which lead to his death. The fourth victim was Troy Burress, age fifty. He was reported missing on July 31, 1990 and on August 4, 1990 police officers found his body in a wooded area along a road in Marion County, Florida. Cause of death was being shot twice. The fifth victim was Charles ‘Dick’ Humphreys, age fifty-six. His car was found in Suwannee

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