Tommy Lynn Sells- Tommy Lynn Sells is an American serial killer. Sells claims he committed his first murder at age 16. While working as a carny in Missouri during the summer of 1985 Sells met 29 year old, Ena Cordt.
According to Tommy Lynn Sells, Cordt invited him to her home where they had consensual affair. The bodies of Cordt and her four-year-old son were found three days later.
Tommy Lynn Sells
On his early life, Tommy Lynn Sells and his twin sister, Tammy Jean, contracted meningitis when they were 18 months old. While Sells suffered a high fever, he survived. His sister, however, died from the inflammation.
Shortly thereafter, Sells was sent to live with his aunt Bonnie Woodall in Holcomb, Missouri. He lived with Woodall until he was five.
When Tommy Lynn Sells was eight he began spending time with a man from a neighboring city named Willis Clark, who would later be suspected of child molestation. He started traveling in order to find work. Because he was homeless at the time, he hitched rides, hopped trains and at one point stole a vehicle. He held several different jobs, often doing menial labor.
Today, according to an interview with Columbia University forensic psychiatrist and personality expert Dr. Michael H. Stone in Discovery Channel’s Most Evil, he claimed to have killed upwards of 70 people.
He also confessed the crime on December 31, 1999, in the Guajia Bay subdivision, west of Del Rio, Texas. Tommy Lynn Sells fatally stabbed 13-year-old Kaylene ‘Katy’ Harris 16 times and slit the throat of 10-year-old Krystal Surles. He also willingly demonstrated how he attacked the girls by revisiting the crime scene with Texas Rangers.
Meanwhile, Surles survived and received help from her neighbors. Ultimately, Sells was apprehended using a sketch from the victim’s description.
Tommy Lynn Sells is currently on death row in Livingston, Texas.
I’ve read the story at 48 hours Mystery, there’s a journalist who was allowed to sit in that interrogation room for hours, listening to Tommy Lynn Sells story, go from state to state to state, talking about the people he killed – the men he killed, the women he killed, the children he killed.
That’s when the journalist realized, that they were dealing with a serial killer - Tommy Lynn Sells
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