Wayne Travis and Steven Hall were sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for the murder of Clarene Haskew
According to court documents Wayne Travis and Steven Hall would force their way into a home where Clarene Haskew would be shot and killed
Wayne Travis and Steven Hall would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Steven Hall death sentenced would later be commuted to life in prison
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On December 12, 1991, Travis and a friend, Steven Wayne Hall, traveled by bus to Uriah, Alabama. Paula Jean Shiver, a friend of Hall’s, met them and drove them to her parents’ home. Travis and Hall stayed with Shiver until December 14, when she drove them to the home of Travis’s parents. Travis and Hall stayed there from 6:30 p.m. to approximately 7:05 p.m., and then left on foot. The home of the murder victim, 69-year-old widow Clarene Haskew, was approximately one mile away by road.
Sometime shortly after 7:00 p.m., Travis and Hall arrived at the home of Jessie Wiggins, an elderly woman, and asked to use the telephone. They dialed several numbers and then left. Wiggins’s home was approximately one mile from the victim’s home.
Later that evening, at approximately 10:30 p.m., Nellie Shad returned to her home and found that it had been burglarized; she described it as “completely trashed.” A .38 caliber Rossi revolver and a .410-gauge shotgun had been taken. Shad drove to her sister’s house, located several miles away, and telephoned the county sheriff’s office. Shad’s home was approximately one-fourth mile from the victim’s home.
On the morning of December 15, Wiggins went to the victim’s home. She saw that the telephone wire leading into the house had been cut and that the porch and kitchen doors had been smashed in. Wiggins did not go in the home, but returned to her own home and telephoned the son of the victim.
Later that morning, Conecuh County sheriff’s deputies found Haskew’s body in the kitchen of her home, which had been vandalized and burglarized. A pentagram had been spray-painted on a kitchen cabinet and the words “thunder struck” had been spray-painted on the floor, beside her body. Missing were silverware, an address book, and Haskew’s 1982 Ford LTD. A Ford pickup parked in a shed was found with its steering column open and wires pulled out. An autopsy determined that Haskew had suffered two gunshot wounds to the back of her head. She had also suffered a number of blunt-force injuries to her head and body, her throat and extremities were bruised, and her hyoid bone, situated at the base of the tongue, was broken.
Earlier that same morning, Travis and Hall had returned to Shiver’s home. Sometime between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m., they drove up in Haskew’s 1982 Ford LTD and parked it behind a camper. Travis stayed in the car most of the day and told Shiver that the car belonged to his sister-in-law. Travis went into the Shiver home around 6:00 p.m. that evening. Sometime later, the Monroe County sheriff arrived at the residence. When Shiver called out that the sheriff was there, Travis and Hall fled out the back door and went into the woods. The sheriff’s department used tracking dogs from a nearby prison to track Travis and Hall through the woods to a “kudzu patch.” A gunfight ensued; in that gunfight, law enforcement officers wounded both Travis and Hall.
When Travis was searched, officers found on his person the keys to the victim’s automobile, five .38 caliber bullets, and his driver’s license. When officers searched Haskew’s automobile, they found in the automobile’s glove compartment the .38 caliber Rossi revolver stolen from the Shad residence, and they found in the trunk the .410-gauge shotgun, the silverware, and the address book. Forensic tests later determined the .38 caliber revolver to be the weapon that had been used to shoot the victim.
Both Travis and Hall were indicted on charges of capital murder. Like Travis, Hall was convicted of murder made capital pursuant to § 13A-5-40(a)(4), Ala.Code 1975, and was sentenced to death. Hall v. State, [Ms. CR-94-0661, October 1, 1999] — So.2d —- (Ala.Crim.App.1999) (cert. review granted, January 12, 2000, docket no. 1990373).
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