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"I'm not like anyone else," murderer says Found: 3 Weeks 3 Days 6 Hours 16 Minutes ago The Columbus Dispatch - MARION, Ohio -- When he was just a kid, Terry Shepherd gutted animals for fun. Groundhogs, rabbits, mangy dogs he found wandering the countryside.
Growing up on a Hardin County farm, he hunted for food and sport, too. But this was different.
"I killed everything I could find," Shepherd said in a two-hour interview at the Multi-County Correctional Center in Marion tonight, an exclusive for "The Dispatch."
"I've always known I was different, that I'm not like anybody else."
On Friday, a Hardin County judge sentenced Shepherd, 40, to two consecutive life terms in prison for the Oct. 12 murders of 57-year-old Judy Kearley and 52-year-old Deb England, two Kenton women who were strangers to him but who had agreed to give him a lift....
Shepherd sentenced for killings Found: 3 Weeks 4 Days 16 Hours 40 Minutes ago The Courier - KENTON — Terry D. Shepherd may have avoided the death penalty even though he murdered three women, but a judge all but guaranteed he'll spend the rest of his life in prison....
Two life terms for murderer Found: 3 Weeks 4 Days 21 Hours 5 Minutes ago The Columbus Dispatch - KENTON, Ohio -- Terry Shepherd had killed a woman, and he thought the law was closing in on him....
Shepherd admits killing Wyandot County woman Found: 1 Month 2 Days 4 Hours 52 Minutes ago The Courier - UPPER SANDUSKY -- Terry D. Shepherd admitted Friday to breaking into the home of Claradell Keller in September, then choking the 78-year-old woman to death before setting her rural Wharton home on fire....
Man admits killing 78-year-old Found: 1 Month 2 Days 13 Hours 9 Minutes ago The Columbus Dispatch - UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio -- For the first time, Terry Shepherd said publicly yesterday why and how he killed a 78-year-old widow and burned down her home in September in what authorities allege was a series of crimes over two weeks that left two other women dead as well....
Man admits to robbing and killing 78-year-old woman Found: 1 Month 2 Days 13 Hours 17 Minutes ago The Columbus Dispatch - UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio -- A convicted sexual predator charged with the murders of three women changed his plea of not guilty in one today, and then admitted that he killed a 78-year-old widow in her home in September....
Hardin County man pleads guilty to killing elderly woman Found: 1 Month 3 Days 2 Hours 25 Minutes ago Toledo Blade - UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio — A Hardin County man pleaded guilty Friday to killing an elderly woman in her rural Wharton, Ohio, home.
Terry Dale Shepherd, 40, pleaded guilty in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court to aggravated murder for the Sept. 28 death of Claradell Keller, 78, whose body was found burned in the aftermath of a fire at her home. Additional charges of aggravated arson, arson, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, burglary, grand theft, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and/or abuse of a corpse are to be dismissed at sentencing.
Also as part of his plea agreement with prosecutors, the state said it will recommend Shepherd be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole – a sentence that is to be imposed consecutive to any sentence he receives in Hardin County where he is charged with two other murders.
Shepherd is to be in Hardin County Common Pleas Court Dec. 12 to answer to two charges of aggravated murder for the deaths of Judy Kearly, 56, and Deborah England, 52, who were last seen Oct. 12 in Kenton. Their remains were found the next day near an abandoned house near Roundhead, Ohio that had burned to the ground.
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Man Admits Killing 78-Year-Old Woman Found: 1 Month 3 Days 2 Hours 39 Minutes ago WBNS 10 News - A paroled rapist is expected to plead guilty to three slayings. Get the latest on the case from 10TV.com....
Youth rehabilitation center recognizes helpers Found: 1 Month 3 Days 3 Hours 48 Minutes ago The Marion Star - MARION ?The North Central Ohio Rehabilitation Center recognized community organizations and members who volunteer their time so the youth at the center have opportunities to volunteer....
UPDATED: Shepherd pleads guilty to Keller murder, faces life in ... Found: 1 Month 3 Days 6 Hours 8 Minutes ago The Courier - UPPER SANDUSKY -- Terry D. Shepherd admitted Friday breaking into the home of Claradell Keller in September, then choking the 78-year-old woman to death before setting her rural Wharton residence on fire....
