Radford v. State

First degree murder; sentence: life imprisonment.

This case results from the brutal, cold-blooded murder of Debra K. Dabbs immediately after she had been savagely raped and beaten. The victim was last seen alive around 11:00 P.M. on March 5, 1975, when she was being led out of the Watergate Lounge in Birmingham by four black men. Her nude, mutilated body was found early the next morning behind Tuggle School in north Birmingham. There were three bullet holes in the head, a stab wound in the chest, and some eighteen knife slashes on the back and side of the body. Spermatozoa was found in the…