KNOWN SERIAL KILLER Rickey Nolen McGinn, DOB 3/11/1957, DATE OF ARREST 5/26/1993
Rickey McGinn was the son of a minister and a native of Santa Ana, Texas. By the time he was finally caught, he was an unemployed construction worker and former mechanic who had been acquitted of murder before, had a history of violence including sexual violence, and was serving a “5-year suspended sentence” for kidnapping and injuring a man. He was executed by lethal injection on 9/27/2000. in Huntsville, Texas.
KNOWN VICTIMS
10/4/1984 - Thomas Jesse “Tommy” Wright (19) of Brady (and originally from Comanche) was found shot to death and left in a ditch near the intersection of FM 765 and FM 2402, east of Eola in Concho County. Tommy had gone to meet McGinn after his shift at the Feed & Seed store on the evening of Tuesday, October 2nd, 1984. He was planning on helping McGinn’s brother move.
After the shooting, McGinn fled to his sister’s home in Grenada County, Mississippi, where he was subsequently arrested. He was tried in Concho county, and - despite his likely being guilty - he was acquitted.
4/1985 - (survived) Assaulted a sophomore at Abilene Christian University who refused to have sex with him.
8/1/1986 - (survived) Sexually assaulted a girl at knifepoint in Eastland County. These charges were dismissed in 1991.
1987 - (survived) Sexually assaulted a young child and threatened to kill her and her mother if she told anybody.
1987 - Joseph Wade Hardman (survived) - kidnapped, tied to a tree, and beaten with a cedar post and a mesquite branch in Brown County, Texas. This victim also was a violent criminal and sex offender.
1988 - Charged with making a terroristic threat against his ex in Brown County. That charge was also dismissed.
1989 - Sherri Newman (29) - sexually assaulted and beaten to death in Brownwood.
11/27/1992 - Christi Jo Egger (19), sexually assaulted and beaten to death, found in a cemetery in Brownwood.
1993 - Stephanie Rae Flanary, 12 (his step-daughter) sexually assaulted and beaten to death with the dull side of an ax, found in a drainage culvert.
Other possible victims:
Unknown Victim - Rising Star, Texas - someone contacted us about a woman who may have been at a bar near Rising Star being killed by him. That person believed that the woman was victim Sherri Newman, but we have verified she died in Brownwood. This possibly indicates another victim.
1989 - Amanda “Sissy” Goodman - some people believe McGinn is a good suspect for her murder, but there are other good suspects - among them a pastor whose truck disappeared for a week and then reappeared with a new window a week later.
Note: Several people mentioned in this post had their names spelled multiple ways in multiple sources:
Rick/Ricky/Rickey Nolan/Nolen McGinn/McGuinn/McGuin
Sherri/Sherry Newman (falsely reported as age 12 in most sources, but actually 29 and a mother at the time of her murder)
Thomas/Tommy Jesse/Jessie Wright
Joseph Wade Hardman/Hardeman
Sources:
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m1/mcginnrickeynolen.htm
http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/mcginn667.htm