Lucius Crawford Charleston crime spree: 'Why you do this thing?'
Photo credit: Mount Vernon Police Department | Lucius Crawford, 60, who was arraigned in the fatal stabbing of 42-year-old Tanya Simmons of Mount Vernon, has confessed to at least two other slayings and has a decades-long criminal record that includes a five-day spree in which he was convicted of knifing four women, police said. (Dec. 5, 2012)
Police: Crawford confesses to Mount Vernon murderWhen Charleston County police caught up with Lucius Crawford on a spring day in 1977, the 24-year-old ex-con told them he was grateful they'd stopped him from hurting more women.
Crawford had approached five women in less than a week's time and plunged a knife into each one after chatting them up on the street.
After stabbing his last victim three times in the chest in North Charleston,...
