Ninth Generation

17641. Fred Howard Coffey Jr. was born on 20 March 1945. He served in the US Navy from 19 May 1962 to 1974. Fred was convicted on 21 January 1987 for "indecent liberty with a child."⁴⁴²⁶⁰

Fred Howard Coffey, Jr. was convicted on several counts of "indecent liberty with child" on this date. Date of offenses were given as Feb. 21 and Aug., 24, 1984; Feb. 24, 1985, Feb. 2, 1986; Jun. 1 and Aug. 21, 1985; Jan. 13, 1985 and Mar. 1, 1986; and Jun. 1, 1983. These convictions and sentences were to run consecutively.

In 1987 he was convicted of murder in the first degree for a crime that he committed in 1979. He had abducted and raped a 13 yr-old girl, the daughter of another Navy man. Since that time he has been convicted of and remains the suspect in several rapes and homicides involving children. Fred is currently serving a life sentence with the North Carolina Department of Corrections.

He is said to have been born in Granite Falls but there is no record of his birth in Caldwell Co., NC.

Fred Howard in Charleston, Charleston Co., SC .^44261,44262

Paraphrasing: On Monday, Mar 23, 1987 a news item appeared on page 2B in the Washington Times, Washington, DC entitled "Center flooded with calls about sisters, byline Cheryl Wetzstein. It related hundreds calls had been received by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children related to the disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, the 12- and 10-year-old sisters who vanished from the Wheaton, Plaza in Maryland on March 25, 1975.

It was thought that Fred Howard Coffey, Jr., who lived and worked in the area at the time of their disappearance might have been involved.

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"Condemned killer of N.C. girl gets third hearing

"Associated Press

"RALEIGH - A man who has twice been sentenced to death for the murder of a 10-year-old Mecklenburg County girl will get alother sentencing hearing, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

"Fred Howard Coffey Jr. was sentenced to death in 1987 for the July 1979 murder of Amanda Ray, who body was found in a wooded area near a lake.

"The state Supreme Court later ordered a new sentencing hearing, and a jury came back with the same sentence.

"On Friday, the Supreme Court ordered a third sentencing hearing.

"The court said the judge who tried the case should not have allowed the jury to consider as aggravating circumstances sexual abuse crimes that Coffey was convicted of before he was charged and tried for the Ray murder.

"The court said evidence of a 'history of prior criminal activity' must be relevant to some issue in the current case.

"It concluded that Coffey's other convictions were not relevant, partly because some of them occurred after the murder so that cannot be classified as 'prior.'

"Justices Burley Mitchell and Louis Meyer filed a dissent, saying Coffey's sexual abuse convictions were Relevant to the case."

A living couple was married in 1972 in Virginia Beach, VA.⁴⁴²⁶³ He/she⁴⁴²⁶³ were separated in 1973 in Virginia. He/she was divorced in 1975 in Norfolk, VA.⁴⁴²⁶⁴ Living, daughter of Theodore Richard Clemmons and Ester Ann Kiff, was born in 1953.

A living couple was married in 1978 in Mecklenburg Co., NC.⁴⁴²⁶⁵ Living was born in 1942 in Mecklenburg Co., NC.