Roy Norris letter/envelope 7/27/2004 DECEASED

This auction is for a letter with artwork from California serial killer Roy Lewis Norris (2/5/1948 - 2/24/2020). Roy Norris, with accomplice Lawrence Sigmond Bittaker, also known was Pliers, committed a series of abductions, rapes, and torture murders between 6/24/1979 and 0/31/1979, killing five teenage girls. The moniker of the Toolbox Killers came due to the vast majority of the items used to torture and murder their victims being pulled from a toolbox, kept in the van the two used to commit their crimes. The duo would be apprehended separately on 11/20/1979. In the plea arrangement, Roy Norris agreed testify against Lawrence Bittaker in order to escape the death penalty. Roy Norris would receive 45 years to life in that deal made with prosecutors. During the trial of Lawrence Bittaker, a homemade tape recording the two made of a woman being brutalized and raped was played for the jury. The victim would be identified as the fifth and final victim of both Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris. The jury found Lawrence Bittaker guilty of all five murders, five counts of kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder, and multiple counts of rape, forcible oral copulation, and forcible sodomy. He was sentenced to death on 3/24/1981. Lawrence Bittaker died of natural causes on 12/19/2019. He was 79. Roy Norris died of natural causes on 2/24/2020. He was 72.

ITEM DESCRIPTION: The missive is three pages on three sheets, dated 7/27/2004, and signed, "Roy L. Norris." Norris has drawn a diagram of a recent surgery he's had on the third sheet. The original mailing envelope, which has a completely hand drawn beach scene, is postmarked 7/29/2004. The letter and envelope come inside a protective magazine sleeve with an acid free board and have been stored flat. Message me with any questions you might have. Thanks for having a look-see.