Robert Garrow
| Robert Garrow | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 4, 1936 Dannemora, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 11, 1978 (aged 42) Beacon, New York |
| Cause of death | shot trying to escape prison |
| Criminal penalty | 25 years to life |
| Killings | |
| Victims | 4 |
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Span of killings
|
1973–1973 |
| Country | U.S. |
| State(s) | New York |
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Date apprehended
|
1973 |
Robert Garrow (March 4, 1936–September 11, 1978) was an American spree killer who was active in New York in the early 1970s. His criminal trial, known as the Buried Bodies Case, became an important case in legal ethics after his attorneys refused to disclose the location of the bodies of two of his victims, citing attorney-client privilege.
Garrow was born in the upstate New York village of Dannemora to French-Canadian parents, Robert Garrow Sr. and Margaret Garrow, poor farmers. Garrow later claimed his parents were severe, violent disciplinarians who regularly physically abused their children with whatever was handy, even bricks. His accounts have been repeated by his siblings. However, Garrow and his siblings were testifying on behalf of an insanity plea in order to lessen the sentence against him.
The police were called several times throughout the years to break up violent fights between Garrow and his alcoholic father; after a particularly brutal episode when Garrow was 15, he was sent to a farm to work. He joined the Air Force upon his release, but was court-martialed a year later for stealing money from a superior officer and spent six months in a military prison in Florida. After a failed escape attempt, he spent a year in another stockade in Georgia.
Garrow later reported a long history of sexual dysfunction and paraphilias; he committed several acts of bestiality with the farm animals he worked with throughout childhood and adolescence, and would often masturbate with milking machines.
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