Speaker 1: The United States is home to some of the world's
most dangerous killers. Individuals responsible for such heenous crimes other
inmates fear them.
Speaker 2: One of these killers was Rocky Beaman.
Speaker 3: There is a lot of evidence that clearly Beman is
not psychiatrically stable.
Speaker 4: That kind of depravity, that kind of hatred, that kind
of malice, Why are you evil?
Speaker 5: Are you born evil?
Speaker 1: To feed a severe drug habit, Rocky Beaman, along with
his girlfriend, killed and then robbed an innocent woman.
Speaker 5: They wanted the money, and they wanted her car.
Speaker 6: He tied her hands, he gagged her, and for a
couple minutes, holds her underneath the water.
Speaker 7: In this heinous it was cruel, an absolute animal.
Speaker 1: Once incarcerated, Beaman's behavior reached a new level of depravity.
Speaker 3: All of his attacks are extremely rage filled and they're
all premeditated. These aren't impulsive homicides.
Speaker 8: There's no prestige and attacking a man who has no
clothes on in the shower in.
Speaker 2: The back.
Speaker 1: A threat to anyone who crossed his path. Rocky Beaman
received the ultimate punishment.
Speaker 6: I have no doubt he would have tried to kill
somebody else. Definitely was the only option.
Speaker 9: I believe I personally have never known anybody to get
two death sentences.
Speaker 2: Uly one just does a trick.
Speaker 1: The state of Florida has the third largest prison system
in the USA, incarcerating around eighty nine thousand prisoners across
one hundred and thirty four prisons. One of these institutions
houses inmates deemed the worst of the worst.
Speaker 8: Santa Rosa Preational Facilities. Located in Milton, Florida. It houses
approximately three thousand inmates. It sits on fifty four acres
and is surrounded by woodland.
Speaker 4: Santa Rasa has always had something of a reputation as
being one of the violent penitentiaries.
Speaker 8: Has housed some of the state's most violent and notorious criminals.
Speaker 1: One of the most callous individuals who have ever been
held there was Rocky Beaman.
Speaker 3: If you look at the traits of psychopaths, Beman hit
almost every single one of them. He made a decision
from a very early age that he was going to
go against the grain. He was going to be anti authority, antisocial,
anti society, and he went with that all the way.
Speaker 10: Rocky appeared to be a very fit guy, but you
could tell that his use for crack cocaine had clearly
taken a physical effect on him.
Speaker 1: His insatiable drug addiction led him to rob and murder
a woman for her car, to.
Speaker 10: Bound somebody and actually throw them away like trash into
a pond and leave them like that.
Speaker 7: Whoever did this was just pure evil.
Speaker 6: What affected me in this case was the horror that
she went through until she was dead.
Speaker 1: Once in prison for murder, Bemon's calculating nature was revealed
through letters he wrote.
Speaker 8: He said he would kill again and then his next
victim he would carve the name of the judge in
the victim's back, metaphorically saying this blood is on your hands.
Speaker 3: Bemon loves being in control. He loves controlling women. He
loves controlling his victims. This is feeding that narcissistic quality
that psychopaths tend to have, where you know he's the judge,
the jury, and the executioner.
Speaker 1: Rocky Ali Beeman was born in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 5: He was born in Naples, Sorta.
Speaker 4: And moved at a young age to Like Placid with
his mother and his stepfather.
Speaker 1: Rocky's biological father was an alcoholic and never met his
baby's son.
Speaker 3: He made Beman a low priority and opted instead to
make alcohol a high priority, which has got to be
really hurtful to a child. It could have sent a
message to Beaman that he was not loved or not wanted.
Speaker 4: Rocky Beeman always claimed that he'd been sexually assaulted as
a child, but he never specified who had abused him,
whether it was a biological parent or a step parent,
or someone off the street.
Speaker 3: The only source of information that points to him having
been sexually abused came from him. You never want to
be dismissive. However, I'd be remiss to say that there
aren't individuals out there who falsely report abuse.
Speaker 1: By the age of twelve, Rocky Beeman, like his father,
had become heavily dependent on alcohol.
Speaker 8: At fourteen, he had moved on to cocaine, and he
started using methamphetamine in combination with alcohol and marijuana.
Speaker 3: He progressed to full blown addiction very very quickly. Is
it because he was indeed sexually abused and went on
to self me dedicate. On the flip side, he could
have just turned to drugs and alcohol experimentally decided that
he enjoyed it. His brain is not fully developed and
he's already introduced all of these mind altering illicit substances
into his system.
Speaker 1: Throughout his teenage years, Beeman's addiction to substances was matched
by a growing addiction to crime.
Speaker 8: And nineteen ninety five, Beeman was arrested and convicted for
two counts of criminal mischief, three counts of grand larceny,
as well as arm burglary. As a result of those convictions,
he spent much of his younger years either on probation
or incarcerated in the juvenile justice center.
Speaker 3: His goals are now to be antisocial and to engage
in criminal behavior. He's a slave to his addiction and
he's going to need money to facilitate that addiction, and
so he's getting himself in a tangled web that he's
not going to be able to escape easily.
Speaker 1: Beman went on to make a full time career out
of crime.
Speaker 4: Between nineteen ninety seven. In two thousand and four, Rocky
Beamon was convicted of alligator poachin battery, larcenies, driving suspended licenses.
Speaker 3: Beman really is the classic escalating offender. He went from
nonviolent crimes and now you start to see by the
time he's in early adulthood, he already has three charges
of domestic violence. He's misogynistic, He's hating women.
Speaker 1: By age twenty seven, Beaman's life had mostly been centered
around taking drugs, committing crimes, and doing time in county jails.
Now living in Sefner, a suburb of the city of Tampa,
he got himself a new girlfriend.
Speaker 4: Beeman met a girl named Karen Wilkins. She was a
good person that was led astray by Rocky Beaman and
they did a lot of drugs together.
Speaker 1: Beeman and his thirty nine year old girlfriend Karen were
sitting out the front of their home. They spotted the
ladies slowly driving down their street. The driver was forty
seven year old Deborah Lacey.
Speaker 10: Deborah worked for the post office. From all accounts, she
was a great lady.
Speaker 1: Deborah Lacey had a sixteen year old daughter and shared
a close bond with her large circle of family and friends.
Speaker 10: She had some issues and ended up with a drug addiction,
which kind of led her down this path where she.
Speaker 7: Ended up meetings sur beingon at that point.
Speaker 10: Initially Miss Lacey, she sees mister Beeman standing outside of
his house. She stops to have conversation with him.
Speaker 4: Deborah said, do you have anything I could drink to
swallow my pills, and that led Rocky to offering to
take her to his house, where he gave her a beer.
Speaker 6: There was no suggestion that mister Beeman and miss Wilkins
knew Miss Lacey. Miss Lacey, unfortunately, had indicated that she
had a lot of money, and all Miss Wilkins and
mister Beaman could see was money for drugs.
Speaker 1: Bemon, motivated by his unrelenting addiction, decided he was going
to rob Deborah Lacey. When Deborah told him that she
wanted to consume some crack cocaine, Beman saw his opportunity.
Speaker 6: They got in her car, they went to one of
mister Beaman's suppliers and got cocaine. Mister Beaman and Miss
Wilkins indicated where they wanted to smoke the crack cocaine.
It was an isolated area because it was a wooded
area and in the middle of it there's a pond
or a lake.
Speaker 2: Unbeknown to Deborah, she was walking into a trap.
Speaker 4: Deborah is in the wood with Rocky and Karen and
they're doing this crack cocaine. At that point, Roki decided
that he would rob and kill Deborah Lacey. Rocky hit
Deborah with a stick and tied her hands with a
drawstring from his shorts. He then stuffed a rag in
her mouth to keep her from screaming, and duct tape
that over her mouth.
Speaker 8: He and Karen then walked Miss Lacey approximately one hundred
and fifty yards to a nearby pond. That is a
long way that is an American football field and a half.
Once they arrived at the pond, mister Beeman forced Lacey's
head under the water and held her there until she
was dead.
Speaker 3: That is a long, tortuous, sadistic way to commit a homicide.
He let Lacey know that she needed to be absolutely
terrified prior to her death. He's filled with rage, and
on top of that, he's a serious drug addict, which
is easily disinhibiting his impulsive nature.
Speaker 6: That must have been terrifying for Miss Lacy realizing that
she's underwater, not being able to breathe, and that she's
never going to get out of that situation.
Speaker 4: After the murder, Rocky and Karen took thirty dollars out
of divers purse. They stole her Lincoln Continental and traded
it for two to four hundred dollars worth of crack cocaine.
Speaker 3: You can rob someone in order to gain money. You
can even assault somebody in order to gain money. But
did you really need to murder her to get money
for drugs? It seems unnecessary.
Speaker 1: Following the murder, Beamon and Wilkins unashamedly carried on living
their lives as normal. Seven days later, Deborah Lacy's sister
had not heard from her sibling for over a week.
She called the police to report her missing.
Speaker 5: My name is Douglas Covington.
Speaker 6: I was a Fellowy Division chief and this case landed
on my desk. Miss Lacy had been reported as a
missing person. A sergeant with the Sheriff DEPARTM had indicated
to his squad to be on the lookout for miss
Lacy and to start looking for her.
Speaker 1: With officers dispatched to drive around the neighborhood, the sergeant
noticed a suspicious looking vehicle.
Speaker 6: That same sergeant was driving down the road and noticed
a car with its back window out.
Speaker 5: He stopped the car.
Speaker 6: The driver jumped out and said he didn't have a
driver's license.
Speaker 1: The man was arrested for failing to provide valid documentation.
Speaker 5: There were two other individuals in the car.
Speaker 6: They brought them all down to the station and they
started questioning them.
Speaker 1: The detective in charge of the questioning for the Hillsboro
County Sheriff's Office was Charlie Keen.
Speaker 10: Two thousand and five, I was assigned to the homicide
section with the Sheriff's office. Myself and my partner conduct
an interview with the two young men in possession of
the car.
Speaker 7: We learned that they actually.
Speaker 10: Trade the crack cocaine for the car to individual known
as Rocky Beaman.
Speaker 1: Officers quickly discovered that Beaman did not own the car.
It was in fact registered to the missing Debora Lacy.
The police urgently wanted to talk to Beman. As they
attempted to track him down, a call came in.
Speaker 5: I was in the office.
Speaker 10: We received the call of a body being found in
a small pond.
Speaker 7: Deputies arrived.
Speaker 10: They confirm, in fact, there was a deceased female victim
there that had been taped up.
Speaker 1: Detective Keene immediately left for the crime scene.
Speaker 10: As I entered the scene, it's been marked off the
crime scene tape and I can see there's a female
victim and the water, her hands and her feet were
tied together and then her mouth was also taped up.
Speaker 7: It was heartbreaking to know that any human would be
treated like that. We knew that whoever had committed this
crime was just violent.
Speaker 1: Police confirmed the body was that of Deborah Lacey. Forensics
had identified her through her fingerprints. They also calculated that
her body had been in the pond for ten days.
Speaker 10: So when we notified Miss Lacy's family that she had
been found in that she was deceased was heartbreaking.
Speaker 7: No family wants to hear that their daughter had been murdered.
Speaker 1: The same afternoon Deborah's body was found, the LAE had
managed to track down where Beeman lived.
Speaker 6: They began doing some surveillance on his house and then
they went and knocked on the door and Miss Wilkins
answered the door and they asked her if anybody else
was in the residence.
Speaker 5: She said, Rocky was.
Speaker 6: They arrested him for an outstanding warrant and brought him
down to their station.
Speaker 1: Emon and Wilkins were questioned together that very same evening.
Officers cut straight to the chase and asked them how
they knew Deborah Lacey and why they had her car.
Speaker 6: Both of them initially completely denied knowing miss Lacey.
Speaker 5: They all lied as to where the car came from.
Speaker 6: But when they started talking to these individuals separately and
said the owner of that car had been found murdered,
then they decided to tell the truth.
Speaker 7: Taking a piece of wood and hit her. Tie her hands,
illustrated the water.
Speaker 2: Tell me about the duck cheep?
Speaker 7: Couldn't yell?
Speaker 1: You put it across her mount.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 10: Once he confessed committing the homicide, his demeanor completely changed.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like it was a lighter version of
him at that point. I've never had.
Speaker 10: Somebody confess the way that he did. We asked questions
and he gave us a direct and point of answers.
He was just this is what I did. Most of
the interviews go on for three, four, five, six hours,
sometimes with him, you know.
Speaker 7: But he knew he was caught and he owned it.
Speaker 11: So you hit her first, You didn't find her hands?
What do you use to do that? With a straining
out of my sorts?
Speaker 5: This a see lace.
Speaker 1: Bimon went on to admit his desperate motivation behind the
horrific murder.
Speaker 7: How much money did you get? Thirty bucks?
Speaker 2: Was that had a problem with drugs?
Speaker 7: We did just apply it.
Speaker 6: You have a drug problem, we do all kinds of
things to support.
Speaker 2: And get more.
Speaker 3: I don't think the drugs had anything to do with
this murder, because this wasn't a huge drug dealer that
he robbed and shot. This was an innocent, forty seven
year old woman who also happened to struggle with addiction
that he took advantage of.
Speaker 5: He killed for the kill.
Speaker 3: He did not kill for the drugs.
Speaker 7: I think he was so strung out on crack cocaine
that I don't think he really gave it a whole
lot of thought.
Speaker 10: Seemed like it was just a normal day of doing
business for him.
Speaker 1: Amen's girlfriend, Karen Wilkins, confessed to her role in Deborah
Lacy's murder.
Speaker 10: She certainly took heart in homicide, but I don't think
she planned it, and she wasn't the one who did
the binding of miss Lacy.
Speaker 7: Mister Reemon Iterant and Pusher in the water.
Speaker 6: Them trading that car for crack cocaine solved this crime.
After their confession, the Sheriff's department got a search warrant
to go into missus Wilkins and mister Remon's residence and
they actually found a pair of swim trunks that did
not have a tie string in it and related back
to the tie string that had tied Miss Lacey's hands.
Speaker 1: The next day, the eight year old Rocky Beaman was
charged with first degree premeditated murder. Karen Wilkins, who was
seen as an accomplice, was charged with second degree murder.
Speaker 2: They were both held in a local jail.
Speaker 6: I was a prosecutor in the case of State of
Florida versus Rocky Beaman and Karen Wilkins.
Speaker 5: I read the.
Speaker 6: Police report, it became very obvious to me that this
had the aggravating factors that could lead to a death
penalty case. The confessions were the biggest piece of evidence
I had.
Speaker 1: The weight of Beaman's confession made a death penalty trial
seem inevitable, but he was able to cut a deal.
Speaker 4: He negotiated a plea where he would plead guilty and
spend his life in prison if the prosecutors would take
the death penalty off the table.
Speaker 6: When he offered to plead to life and a voyage
of the death penalty, I had no problem with it whatsoever.
Is as long as he was not out on the
streets for the rest of his life.
Speaker 5: I was good with that.
Speaker 1: Five months later, Beaman's plea hearing took place at the
thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Hillsborough County.
Speaker 6: Mister Beaman comes into the courtroom with his attorney. He
was in a sheriff's office jail jumpsuit. Mister Beaman pled guilty,
and at that point in time, the victim's family has
an opportunity to indicate how this has affected them.
Speaker 4: Debrah's family, obviously, I took to murder very hard. The
daughter had a letter read on her behalf in which
she said, my mother will never get to see the
milestones in my life. She'll never get to meet my children.
Speaker 5: You have taken that from me.
Speaker 1: For first degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery, Rocky Beeman was
sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Speaker 10: During that sentencing, mister Mehmon, Di's something that I've never
seen anybody do it in any trial.
Speaker 7: Once he played guilty, he looked at me.
Speaker 10: And he gave me a head nod, and that had
not I took it as him saying, look.
Speaker 7: I did the right thing. I accept responsibility.
Speaker 1: It was very strange Beeman's girlfriend, Karen Wilkins, was tried
separately and pled guilty to second degree murder. She received
a sentence of thirty years in prison, followed by ten
years probation. For the next seven years, Beaman was moved
between various institutions within the Florida prison system. In March
twenty twelve, Beaman, now aged thirty four, ended up as
an inmate at Appalachi Correctional Institute.
Speaker 9: Apalaschi Correctional Institute is a correctional institute located in the
Panhandle of Florida. The institution opened in nineteen forty nine.
It houses approximately thirteen hundred inmates and its mixed custody
of clothes, medium and.
Speaker 2: Minimum security inmates.
Speaker 1: His cellmate was forty four year old Bruce Hunsicker.
Speaker 8: Mister Hunsicker was in prison serving a sentence of six
life sentences for raping a ten year old girl at
knife point. At that point, mister Beeman was unaware of it.
Speaker 4: The first couple of months that they share a cell
together was somewhat cordial. The relationship seems to have started
going downhill when Hunsicker borrowed some coffee from Rocky and
wouldn't return it. Then Rocky learned that Hunsicker had been
convicted of raping a ten year old girl at knife point.
Speaker 1: As someone who since adolescents claimed he held a particular
hatred for child molesters, Beeman was enraged. He decided he
was going to kill his cellmate in cold blood.
Speaker 8: Beamon at that point began stalking mister Hunsicker and essentially
analyzing his daily patterns, and what he learned is that
Hunsicker took a shower every day precisely at four pm.
Speaker 4: The whole stalking thing kind of goes to his preparation
to kill this man.
Speaker 1: Beeman decided to murder Hunsicker and the shower during his
daily visit.
Speaker 8: He then fashioned a fourteen inch shank or a jailmate weapon,
out of a piece of fence that he was able
to become in possession of.
Speaker 9: Murders of an inmate in a shower is an area
of opportunity because these inmates are unsuspecting of being attacked
while they're showering.
Speaker 2: They have their guard Doum.
Speaker 1: Five days after learning about Hunsicker's crime, Beman made his move.
Speaker 4: The attack started with Beman coming up from behind a
Hunsicker and putting his left arm around his neck and
choking him to keep him quiet, while with his right
arm stabbing him in the abdomen and other areas of
his body. He would ultimately end up stabbing him eighty
times and left him for dead on the bathroom floor.
Speaker 3: Stabbing somebody eighty times is what we referred to as overkill.
It did not require eighty stabbing to kill his cell meat.
That tells me that Beaman was enjoying what he's doing.
Speaker 4: After the attack, Rocky, covered in blood, takes a shower,
cleans himself up, and then he takes the evidence, being
his shorts and the weapon, and flushes him down to toilet,
and then he leaves.
Speaker 2: Beaman left Hunsicker's body where he lay.
Speaker 4: Hunsicker's body wasn't found for a couple hours during a
security check.
Speaker 8: Mister Hunsicker suffered a punctured heart, a punctured kidney, a
punctured right lung, a punctured diaphragm, and injuries to other organs.
Speaker 4: Authorities did eventually find the weapon, and unfortunately, there was
so much DNA in the prison system sewer lines they
couldn't confirm that it was the weapon that Rocky eight East.
Speaker 1: But the authorities did not need to prove who had
killed the Hunsicker as Beman once again took responsibility for
his actions.
Speaker 4: Beemen confessed to the crime and told the authorities that
it was his hatred of child molesters that had driven
him to do what he did.
Speaker 5: Bamin did not.
Speaker 4: Show any remorse for the killing, and in fact, probably
seemed almost proud of it.
Speaker 3: Beaman starts to show these kind of narcissistic traits which
are typical in psychopaths, where he is almost beaming with
pride that he's taken out a child molester, like he's
done this kind of vigilante just that he should be
admired and revered. He's not thinking I took a life
that I had no right to take. He's now again
in control.
Speaker 1: Beaman was moved into close management or solitary confinement, locked
in a single cell for twenty three hours a day.
Speaker 2: He was there for the next five years.
Speaker 3: When you're in solitary confinement, you're having a loss of
sensory stimulation. You're not interacting with other humans, you're not
seeing light as much as you should be. We see psychosis,
we see depression, we see anxiety, we see loss of
social skills.
Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen, thirty nine year old Beaman was transferred to
Santa Rosa Correctional Facility.
Speaker 9: Santa Rosa Correctional Institution is a men's prison located in Milton, Florida.
Speaker 2: The prison opened up in.
Speaker 9: Nineteen ninety six and houses over three thousand inmates of
custody levels clothes, minimum, and medium.
Speaker 4: Beaman was downgraded from Close Management one to Close Management two,
which entitled him to have a cellmate.
Speaker 8: Nicholas Ryan Anderson was a twenty seven year old inmate
and was the cellmate for mister Beaman. Mister Anderson was
serving a twenty year sentence for child molesstation.
Speaker 4: The rationale behind putting Beaman in a cale with a
child molester is beyond my comprehension. I don't know why
it was done. Beaman had not found this out, and
did not find it out until he was notified by
members of a prison gang of what he'd been convicted for,
and the gang members actually told him that they were
going to take him out if Rocky didn't take him
out himself.
Speaker 8: Beeman asked if Anderson would provide him with his commitment
papers to show him in writing why he was in custody.
Of course, mister Anderson refused to do that. At that point,
mister Beaman felt that mister Anderson was lying to him.
Speaker 1: Now aware of Anderson's crime, Beaman carefully put together a
plan to kill his twenty seven year old cellmate.
Speaker 4: Part of Beaman's preparation was watching the guards and timing
their movements so that he ultimately determined that they came
by about every twenty five minutes.
Speaker 8: To prepare for the killing, he was able somehow to
get his hands on a double A battery.
Speaker 2: He ground it down on.
Speaker 8: The cell floor to create a fixed point blade.
Speaker 1: Just over a week after being placed in a cell
with Anderson, Beaman made his move. He waited until just
after the midnight check.
Speaker 4: Biman told Anderson to get out, up out of his bunk.
He told him he got to go, and Anderson said, I'm
not going anywhere, at which point Rocky punched him in
the eye and pulled him to the ground and tied
his arms and his legs, and then tied another bed
sheet to hog tie him.
Speaker 2: Beman then began to strangle Anderson.
Speaker 4: At some point, he determined that he was dead, so
he released him, but Anderson started breathing again, and that's
when Rocky started kicking him and stabbing him with the
battery shank that he'd created.
Speaker 1: At twelve fourteen am, an inmate in a neighboring cell
called out to officers, who rushed to the crime scene.
They were met with Anderson's hogtide body on the floor,
with Beamon standing over him. Beamon was restrained and moved
to another cell. Despite the nurse's best efforts, they were
unable to revive Nicholas Anderson, who was pronounced dead at
one point fifty three am.
Speaker 4: When Beaeman was interviewed after the fact, he did not
show any remorse for what he'd done, and if another
inmate hadn't sounded an alarm, he would have continued to
torture him. His raison was that he hates child molesters
and that he intended to kill as many as he could.
Speaker 3: The fact that Beman's sealmates were sex offenders were an
easy excuse for him. I really believe had his cellmates
been drug dealers or bank robbers, they likely would have
suffered the same fate Beaman wanted to kill.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 4: He was committing his second murder of someone accused of
molesting a child. What were you thinking putting this man
into a jail cell with this man?
Speaker 1: Just over a year later, Beaman was charged with a
murder of his first cellmate, Bruce Hunsicker, who he killed
almost six years earlier.
Speaker 4: He was charged with first degree murder in the Hunsicker case,
and the death penalty was definitely on the table. Beaman
responded to the call for the death sentence by writing
judges and prosecutors in saying, you better go ahead and
kill me, because if you don't, I'm going to continue
to kill child molesters until either I die, all of
them die, or you put me on death row.
Speaker 3: I think Beaman really has embraced who he is as
a serial killer at this point. He's in enjoying having
other people read exactly how sadistic his mind is. Beamon
has a desire to be in control at all times.
Why not have some more bravado, Why not feed the
narcissistic component of psychopathy. He's reveling in this now, this
is who he is, this is what he does, and
he's now proud of it.
Speaker 4: I don't know that I've ever heard of a convicted
felon asking for the death penalty and basically saying kill.
Speaker 2: Me or I'll kill more.
Speaker 4: Beiman said that he had no regrets in either case.
He says it was the best feeling I've ever had,
better than any drug I've ever had an orgasm.
Speaker 1: The following year, forty one year old Beaman, frustrated by
the slow judicial process, tried to speed up receiving a
death penalty sentence by waiving his rights to an attorney.
He penned another letter directly for the judge.
Speaker 9: Beman threatened the judge by telling the judge he was
going to carve the judge's name into his next victim,
and that he was going to dedicate the next victim
to the judge.
Speaker 3: This is the highest level of attempt at control and
manipulation that you can really ever see. These letters reveal
who he truly is, which is an extremely manipulative, sadistic,
violent offender.
Speaker 2: Beman got his wish later that month.
Speaker 1: He was found guilty of first degree premeditated murder and
received the death sentence for the killing of Bruce Hunsicker.
In November twenty nineteen, Beeman was given a second death
penalty sentence for the murder of his other cellmate, Nicholas Anderson.
Speaker 7: He's come into three murders at that point in time.
Speaker 10: I mean odds are to me he's going to commit
a fourth if you continue to let him have, you know,
open interaction with other inmates.
Speaker 7: So I don't know that there was another option.
Speaker 1: Rocky Beaman was sent to death row at Union Correctional
Facility in Rayford, Florida.
Speaker 9: Beamon was ultimately How's single cell status, meaning he was
alone in the cell and the department separated him from
general population due to all the criminal and vicious acts
that he did while he was housed on death row.
In twenty twenty, he committed the act of suicide.
Speaker 1: The Florida Department of Corrections didn't elaborate on the circumstances
of the forty two year olds suicide.
Speaker 5: He begged to be.
Speaker 8: On death row, However, I think what he probably didn't
take under consideration is how slow the wills of.
Speaker 7: Justice can move. You can be on death row for decades.
Speaker 8: I think he just got tired of waiting for the
state to do it, so he did it himself.
Speaker 6: I can't say I'm sorry bestly after what he had
done after my case, and I'm sure those prisoners that
he killed had families. Mister Beeman probably did not need
to have a place on this hearth.
Speaker 3: He caused so much chaos and turbulence in everybody else's life,
but he still had to remain in control, and he
ultimately got his way and was sent to death row.
But he was going to say, I'm the last in control.
You're not going to kill me. I'm going to kill myself.
That's why he committed suicide.
Speaker 1: The question of why Rocky Beaman decided to choose a
path of murder is one that remains unanswered.
Speaker 3: In spite of a horrific childhood, substance abuse, mental illness,
none of that is the reason why Beaman was so
horribly evil. Beaman never had a positive effect on anyone
that he came across his entire life, including himself.
Speaker 8: Beaman probably sees himself as some sort of vigilante to
provide justice for children that were harmed by adults. Killing
Bruce Hunsiger, a man serving six life sentences, posed no
additional threat to any children going forward, and sure as hell,
forty seven year old Debor Lacy was not a child
sex offender, A vigilante no, a predator looking for some
level of justification.
Speaker 7: That's more likely to me