WILLIAM EDWARD WELLS III | “The Monster of Mayport” | Florida Death Row | Murdered his family in 2003, would attempt to murder another inmate in 2008, and would murder another inmate in 2011 before the last murder that took place in 2019 | ALS

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A convicted murderer known as the “Mayport Monster” for the 2003 killing of five people including his wife in the Jacksonville area may finally get his dying wish.

William Edward Wells III on Tuesday was sentenced to death for the killing of a Florida State Prison inmate—his first death sentence after killing seven people.

Wells, (b. October 7, 1975 | age 48), was sentenced for his role in the 2019 stabbing and strangling of 32-year-old William L. Chapman, a Volusia County man who was just months away from his expected release date from Florida State Prison for a burglary conviction.

The sentence in Starke by Eighth Circuit Chief Judge Mark Moseley comes after Wells was given life terms for murder for his previous cases, including the 2003 deaths.

Wells, who also killed a fellow inmate in 2011 and had tried to kill another in a Miami-Dade prison in 2008, said before that he wants to die.

Wells last year pleaded guilty to Chapman’s death.

Co-defendant Leo Boatman awaits trial. Boatman was in prison on conviction of killing two Santa Fe College students in the Ocala National Forest in 2006.

State attorney spokesman Darry Lloyd said Tuesday that Chapman was still alive when Wells encouraged Boatman to reportedly keep stabbing him.

“It was bad,” Lloyd said. “This guy’s history is scary. This is just a bad person.”

Wells was first convicted for murdering five people in his Mayport home.

In the Mayport case, Wells pleaded guilty in exchange for the state waiving the death penalty. Before that plea deal, prosecutors expressed concern about his mental health and ability to understand the criminality of those killings.

Wells killed his wife and four others in their Mayport home. He and his 4-year-old son lived for up to a week with the decomposing bodies in a double-wide trailer.

• VIDEO: Man deemed 'Monster of Mayport' reportedly continues killing two decades after notorious mass murder | https://youtu.be/1brTyrtv5ME

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