Lawrence Bittaker signed photo 5/10/2010 DECEASED

This auction is for a signed photo of deceased California serial killer Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker (9/27/1940 - 12/13/2019). Lawrence Bittaker, also known as Pliers, with accomplice Roy Lewis Norris, 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 photograph measures 4"×6", dated 5/10/2010 (the day after it was taken), and is signed, "Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker." This is an original visitation photo, printed out at San Quentin State Prison in East Block condemned visitation. The white tads on the side are still intact, which is how the photo comes out of the printer. Bittaker took the photo with him back to his cell, signed it, and then mailed to out to a female correspondent. The photograph comes inside a protective magazine sleeve with an acid free board and has been stored flat. Message me with any questions you might have. Thanks for having a look-see.