Post by CCADP on Aug 28, 2005 7:27:21 GMT -5
Strangler's plea to lost family Aug 28 2005
Marc Baker, Wales on Sunday
A KILLER of Welsh descent who strangled a nurse has appealed for his long-lost relatives to "reach out" to him.
Death Row inmate Roderick Orme (pictured) - nicknamed the Florida Strangler - has spent the past 12 years at the maximum security Union Correctional Institution in Florida.
In a letter from his cell, the 43-year-old, who has a tattoo of a Welsh dragon on his left arm, told Wales on Sunday: "Wales is where my father's side of the family come from. Just knowing that I have ties to Wales has given me a desire to write to someone from there.
"I wonder about my relatives over in Wales, sitting down to dinner and laughing. I wonder if they are oblivious of me.
"Deep down inside I have this fantasy that maybe some distant relative will reach out to me, to get to know me and say, 'I don't care what you are convicted of, I will always be there for you'.
Orme was sentenced to death in 1993 for strangling nurse Lisa Redd while high on cocaine at a motel in Panama City, Florida.
He denied murder but was found guilty after a jury heard how he subjected Miss Redd to a savage beating on March 4, 1992. He was snared by DNA evidence.
Marc Baker, Wales on Sunday
A KILLER of Welsh descent who strangled a nurse has appealed for his long-lost relatives to "reach out" to him.
Death Row inmate Roderick Orme (pictured) - nicknamed the Florida Strangler - has spent the past 12 years at the maximum security Union Correctional Institution in Florida.
In a letter from his cell, the 43-year-old, who has a tattoo of a Welsh dragon on his left arm, told Wales on Sunday: "Wales is where my father's side of the family come from. Just knowing that I have ties to Wales has given me a desire to write to someone from there.
"I wonder about my relatives over in Wales, sitting down to dinner and laughing. I wonder if they are oblivious of me.
"Deep down inside I have this fantasy that maybe some distant relative will reach out to me, to get to know me and say, 'I don't care what you are convicted of, I will always be there for you'.
Orme was sentenced to death in 1993 for strangling nurse Lisa Redd while high on cocaine at a motel in Panama City, Florida.
He denied murder but was found guilty after a jury heard how he subjected Miss Redd to a savage beating on March 4, 1992. He was snared by DNA evidence.