Paul Devoe was sentenced to death by the State of Texas for four murders
According to court documents Paul Devoe would go to his ex girlfriend’s residence and murder Paula Griffith, 46; her boyfriend, 48-year-old Jay Feltner; her 15-year-old daughter, Haylie Marie Faulkner; and 17-year-old Danielle Hensley.
After the four murders Paul Devoe would flee the State and would end up in Pennsylvania where he would murder Betty Jane Dehart, 81, during a carjacking
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Texas’ highest criminal court has rejected an appeal from a man condemned for killing two teenagers near Austin during a 2007 crime binge that left six people dead — including an 81-year-old State Line woman.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declined Wednesday to rule on the merits of the appeal from 52-year-old Paul Devoe, saying only the appeal was improper.
Devoe was condemned to death for killing 15-year-old Haylie Faulkner and 17-year-old Danielle Hensley in August 2007.
His other victims include Betty Dehart of State Line, who he killed before stealing $8 from her purse and her car.
Devoe was arrested after a brief standoff with police in Shirley, N.Y. — where he grew up and where his mother lived — three days after four people were killed at a home in a rural area near Lake Travis, outside Austin, Texas.
He also is accused of killing a bartender in Marble Falls, Texas, and Dehart, whose car he stole en route to New York.
Devoe specifically was convicted of capital murder for the deaths of the teens. Faulkner was the daughter of Devoe’s ex-girlfriend, Paula Griffith, 46, who also was killed along with her boyfriend, Jay Feltner, 48.
They were shot at Griffith’s home after Devoe tried to kill another former girlfriend, Glenda Purcell, at a bar. The bartender there, Michael Allred, 41, was fatally shot as he stepped between Purcell and Devoe. The gun jammed as Devoe tried to shoot Purcell and he fled.
Police were alerted by Hensley’s parents after they were unable to reach her by phone. She was with Faulkner for a planned trip to a San Antonio amusement park.
According to previous court action, Devoe told a psychiatrist that on the day of the Texas shootings, he smoked methamphetamine and drank a liter of rum. He described the shooting of Allred as an accident, said he shot Feltner in self-defense and said he killed Griffith, the teens and Dehart because they were screaming
Ballistics showed all the victims were killed with the same .380-caliber pistol. Police recovered a box of 100 bullets from a bag inside the car he was driving.
In Pennsylvania
Devoe left Texas in Griffith’s car, which began having mechanical problems as he reached State Line. Dehart was sitting on the porch of her North Young Road home when Griffith’s Saturn died. Police said Dehart tried to run inside and lock the door, but Devoe chased her into the bedroom where he shot her. He then stole $8 from her purse and fled to New York.
Franklin County District Attorney Matthew Fogal opted not to seek a trial in Pennsylvania for Dehart’s murder, with the blessing of her family.
“Leave (Devoe) to Texas so the wheels of justice can keep turning,” Dehart’s daughter, Saundra Schriver, said in the family’s official statement at the time
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