Rocky Beamon

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Rocky Beamon
Born(1977-12-10)December 10, 1977
Florida, U.S.
DiedJune 10, 2020(2020-06-10) (aged 42)
Union Correctional Institution, Florida, U.S.
Criminal statusDeceased
ConvictionsFirst degree murder (3 counts)
Kidnapping
Robbery
Criminal penaltyLife imprisonment (2005 murder)
Death (subsequent murders)
Details
Victims3
Span of crimes
2005–2017
CountryUnited States
StateFlorida

Rocky Ali Beamon (December 10, 1977 – June 10, 2020) was an American man who killed three people, including two fellow inmates in prison while he was serving a life sentence for the first murder. The inmates he murdered were serving time for sex crimes against children. He would profess his hatred for sex offenders, saying that killing them gave him "the best feeling I've had in a long time", and he would continue to kill such inmates unless he was executed. Beamon was sentenced to death but killed himself while on death row in 2020.[1]

Initial murder

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On February 6, 2005, Rocky Beamon and his girlfriend, Karen Wilkins, murdered 47-year-old Deborah Lacey. Beamon hit Lacey, tied her hands behind her back, and held her in water until she drowned. They then took her car and traded it with two men for crack cocaine. The two were arrested after police found them driving Lacey's car. To avoid a possible death sentence, Beamon pleaded guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to life without parole. Wilkins pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 10 years of probation.[2]

Subsequent murders

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On July 5, 2012, Beamon killed a fellow inmate, 44-year-old Bruce Hunsicker. Beamon stalked Hunsicker for days, before attacking him in a prison shower. He choked Hunsicker and stabbed him more than 80 times with a homemade shank. Afterward, he rinsed himself off before flushing the shank, a towel, and a pair of boxers, before proceeding to dinner. In his confession, Beamon had stated that Hunsicker also owed him money.[3][4]

Hunsicker had been serving six life terms for an attack on a 10-year-old girl in 2001. He broke into her house while she was sleeping and then raped her at knifepoint before fleeing. After he left, the girl ran to her parents' room and told them what happened. Hunsicker was found a few blocks away. Orlando police later found more than 1,000 neatly folded children's garments in Hunsicker's home. They also learned that he had served time in prison for molesting a 5-year-old girl in 1992. At his sentencing hearing, the judge had called Hunsicker "a parent's worst nightmare".[5][6]

On January 22, 2017, Beamon killed 27-year-old Nicholas Anderson, who had been serving a 20-year sentence for child molestation. He bound and strangled Anderson before cutting his neck with a homemade weapon.[7]

In May 2018, Beamon wrote a letter to Judge Christopher Patterson in which he said that killing sex offenders "was the best feeling I’ve had in a long time." He pledged to continue targeting victims if he was not sentenced to death. "I'll do my best to eliminate every single one until one of three things happens: (1) someone kills me, (2) I run out of people to kill, or (3) they put me where I can kill no more, death row," the letter said. He told Judge Patterson "if you don't send me to death row, I vow to dedicate my next to you." In another letter, Beamon wrote "I will continue to take lives until someone in here takes mine or I reach my goal, death row, so please send me there. If you set me free, it's blood on your hands."[8]

On January 28, 2019, Beamon was sentenced to death for murdering Hunsicker.[9] He received another death sentence for murdering Anderson that November.[10]

Death

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Beamon died by suicide while on death row on June 10, 2020. He was 42 years old.[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Inmate Release Information Detail". dc.state.fl.us. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  2. ^ "Rocky Beamon". The Tampa Tribune. 2005-07-21. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  3. ^ Staff Report. "Man sentenced to death for homemade shank murder". The Northwest Florida Daily News. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  4. ^ Newby, Jake. "Inmate under investigation for murder at Santa Rosa Correctional gets death in separate case". Pensacola News Journal. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  5. ^ "Inmate Release Information Detail". www.dc.state.fl.us. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  6. ^ "RAPIST GETS 6 LIFE TERMS FOR ATTACK ON 10-YEAR-OLD". Orlando Sentinel. 22 January 2003. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  7. ^ "Inmate Release Information Detail". dc.state.fl.us. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  8. ^ McLaughlin, Tom. "Inmate gets wish, sentenced to death for third Florida murder". The Northwest Florida Daily News. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  9. ^ "Inmate sentenced to death after killing fellow inmate". Panama City News Herald. 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  10. ^ McLaughlin, Tom (2019-11-18). "Inmate gets wish, sentenced to death for third Florida murder". The Northwest Florida Daily News. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
  11. ^ Corrections, Florida Department of. "Florida Department of Corrections". fdc.myflorida.com. Retrieved 2025-05-11.