WICKLINE William Dean Jr.

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"The Butcher"William Wickline
Status
Identification Status	Identified
Criminal Status	Executed
Personal Information
Full Name	William Dean Wickline, Jr.
Born	March 15, 1952 Reynoldsburg, Ohio, United States
Died	March 30, 2004 (aged 52) Lucasville, Ohio, United States
Cause of Death	Executed by lethal injection
Gender	Male
Race/Ethnicity	White
Criminal Information
AKA	"The Butcher"
Offender Type	Serial Killer
Convictions	Murder (x2)
Criminal penalty	Death x1 (Peggy Lerch) Life imprisonment x1 (Christopher Lerch)
Victims	3+ (2 convictions)
Span of crimes	1979 - 1982
Country	United States
States	West Virginia Ohio
Date apprehended	1982
Imprisonment	Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

Victims

Confirmed victims

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Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death

Suspected victims

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Name	Age	Disappeared	Body Found	Cause of Death
Tory Gainer		1978
Unidentified man		January 1983

Disproven victims

Name	Age	Date of Death	Cause of Death	Real Killer
John A. Muncy	15	October 1983		Daniel Alan Anderson
Annette Cooper	18	October 4, 1982	Shooting	Chester McKnight and Kenneth Linscott
Todd Schultz	19	October 4, 1982	Shooting	Chester McKnight and Kenneth Linscott

For a time, he was also proposed as an alternative suspect to the 1984 murders of Annette Cooper and Todd Schultz, for which Cooper's stepfather, Dale Johnston was convicted and sentenced to death, but whose guilt was questioned. In 2008, two other men confessed and were convicted of the crime, and Johnston was exonerated. In 2020, authorities identified Muncy's killer as Daniel Alan Anderson, a violent sex offender with past convictions for abusing young boys, who had died in 2013.

Links

• William Wickline at Wikipedia
• William Dean Wickline Jr. at Find a Grave
• Wickline v. Mitchell (2003)