Bobby Joe Maxwell, the once accused Skid Row Stabber whose convictions were later overturned, died late last month, his attorney said.
Maxwell was arrested in 1979 and convicted in two of the slayings at a 1984 trial. The same jury acquitted him of five counts of murder and deadlocked on three others.
Los Angeles police had arrested and later released two other suspects in the killings before settling on Maxwell, whose palm print was found on a bench near one of the crime scenes. Investigators also said they found a knife in Maxwell’s possession that was similar to the type of blade suspected of causing the fatal wounds suffered by some of the victims.
Maxwell always proclaimed his innocence, and his attorneys and relatives have long argued the case was overly reliant on the testimony of a jailhouse informant, Sidney Storch, who claimed Maxwell had confessed to him.inside the county’s jail system. Several informants said Storch taught them how to “book” other inmates by gleaning details about high-profile cases from newspapers and using that information to allege they confessed.
Storch died in 1988 after he was indicted on a perjury charge. Despite the controversy, Maxwell’s conviction would not be overturned until 2010, when an appellate court ruled that much of the evidence against him beyond Storch’s testimony was “circumstantial.” But he would never see the outside of a jailhouse or hospital room again. The district attorney’s office sought to retry him on five of the murder charges in 2013, but voluminous discovery requests and lengthy motion hearings delayed the case up until Maxwell fell gravely ill in late 2017.Essential California Newsletter
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