Born in 1940, Crump was another in the series of lethal drifters who left their tracks across America in the 1980s. Convicted in Albuquerque, New Mexico, of killing his second wife, a cab driver, and a Minnesota tourist, Crump was already serving life on those counts when he confessed to an October 1980 murder in Las Vegas. Jodie Jameson, 25, had been working for a local "escort service" when she died in a sleazy motel, strangled with a torn pillow case, her body left in the bathtub. Convicted and sentenced to die on the basis of his own confession, Crump has also confessed to seven other slayings, seven attempted murders, plus an unspecified number of robberies, assaults, and kidnappings.