Brett Hartmann

Ohio. TO BE EXECUTED NOVEMBER 13th

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Age: 37.

Crime: In September 1997, a 46 year old woman was found dead in her apartment. Her body was bound at the ankles, her torso stabbed more than 130 times, her neck slashed and her hands severed and missing. Hartmann, who had a casual sexual relationship with the woman, contends he had been with her about 14 hours earlier during a sexual encounter, but did not kill her. It was Hartmann, 23 at the time, who reported finding the woman's body. He told police he went to her apartment, discovered her mutilated body and panicked, fearing police would pin the murder on him. He cleaned up evidence of his previous visit — cigarette butts, beer cans and his T-shirt, which he said was left behind in his haste to leave the woman after their sexual encounter. About 2 hours after finding the body, he made a series of 911 calls in an attempt to report the woman's death anonymously. He was later arrested when his bloody shirt and a watch belonging to the murdered woman was found in his bedroom. His semen was also found in the woman's body.

Method of execution: Lethal injection.

Last meal: TBA.

Last words: TBA.

Dead Men Walking

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