KARLA Faye Tucker laughed as she was strapped down onto a gurney and injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs.
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The 38-year-old had been on death row for 14 years after brutally killing two of his neighbors with a pickaxe while high on speed and alcohol. The killings became national scandal when Tucker revealed in a police interview that she enjoyed it so much that she reached an orgasm with every blow made.
While on Death Row, the killer became a 'Born-Again' Christian and her 'charming' character won her legions of fans-and she even married the prison minister.
Here, on the 37th anniversary of the month of her death, we retell the gross and bizarre tale of the pickaxe killer. Like many killers, Tucker, born in Houston, Texas, had a troubled childhood.
She started taking drugs and having sex at the age of 12. By the time she was 14 she had dropped out of school and was forced into prostitution.
She started hanging out with bikers in her late teens and met her partner Daniel Garrett, then 35 years old, when she was 21.
On June 13th 1983, after spending the weekend on a drugs binge, Tucker and Garrett broke into the apartment of - Jerry Lynn Dean, 27 - to steal a motorbike that Jerry had been restoring.
During the burglary, the pair went into Jerry's bedroom and Tucker threw herself on top of him.
In a struggle to get her off of her, he grabbed her, which led Garrett to crack a ball-peen hammer that he found on the floor around Jerry's head.
After making several blows to Jerry's head, Garrett left the room.
It was at that point Tucker picked up a three-foot pickaxe that was resting against the wall and began hitting Jerry to silence the "gurgling" sound he was making.