Continueing the Serial Killer Trail
Ronald Dominique is a serial killer and rapist from Bayou Blue, Louisiana, who killed up to 23 victims across the state in a decade-long murder spree.
Dominique killed his first target in 1997. With some of his victims, he would go to gay bars and offer to pay money for sex. In other cases, he would kidnap men by offering them drugs, or by showing them a picture of a woman he claimed was willing to pay for sex. In either case, Dominique would lure the man to a secluded location before raping and then strangling him.
The main motivation for Dominique was to sexually assault his victims. He later told police that he only killed the men so they would not be able to say anything, allowing him to evade capture.
Dominique was caught when a task force – created to catch the strangler – received a tip naming him as the killer. He was arrested, and soon confessed to killing 23 men. He was convicted of eight counts of murder but avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty. Dominique was instead given eight life sentences.