Active for 4 years
(1986-1989) in United States

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2. Serial Killer Profile
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4. General Information
5. Characteristics
6. Childhood
7. Cognitive Ability
8. Incarceration
9. Death
10. 11 Timeline Events
11. Serial Killers Active During Spree
12. Boolean Statistical Questions
13. 4 Books Written About Ray Copeland
14. 5 External References
15. Internal References

Ray Copeland an American serial killer who with his wife Faye Copeland became the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters at their farm in Mooresville, Missouri.

Profile Completeness: 45%

Books that Mention Ray Copeland

Kathleen A. O'Shea

Women and the Death Penalty in the United Sta...

R. Barri Flowers

Murders in the United States

Dirk C. Gibson

Serial Killing for Profit: Multiple Murder fo...

Steven Chermak Ph.D.

Crimes of the Centuries [3 volumes]

4 Books that mention Serial Killer
Ray Copeland

ISBN10	Book Title	Author	Killers Mentioned	Killers
027595952x	Women and the Death Penal...	Kathleen A. O'Shea	5 Total Including Rhonda Belle Martin	5
0786420758	Murders in the United Sta...	R. Barri Flowers	32 Total Including Juan Vallejo Corona	32
0313378916	Serial Killing for Profit...	Dirk C. Gibson	6 Total Including Fritz Haarmann	6
1610695941	Crimes of the Centuries [...	Steven Chermak Ph.D.	14 Total Including Juan Vallejo Corona	14

Faye Della Wilson Copeland (August 4, 1921 – December 23, 2003) and Ray Copeland (December 30, 1914 – October 19, 1993) became, at the ages of 69 and 76 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters at their farm in Mooresville, Missouri. When her sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1999, Faye Copeland was the oldest woman on death row.

External References

1. Q356168 on www.wikidata.org, Retrieved on Oct 11, 2018.
2. Ray and Faye Copeland on en.wikipedia.org, Retrieved on Oct 17, 2018.
3. Thomas Seeley, Matt Robertson, Ray Copeland on maamodt.asp.radford.edu, Retrieved on Oct 17, 2018.
4. Juan Ignacio Blanco, Ray COPELAND on murderpedia.org, Retrieved on Oct 17, 2018.
5. Kristin Elink-Schuurman-Laura, Copeland, Ray on skdb.fgcu.edu, Retrieved on Dec 14, 2018.

Internal References

Ray Copeland is included in the following pages on Killer.Cloud the Serial Killer Database

1. #20 of 45[ Page 2 ] of Serial Killers with birthdays in December
2. #35 of 55[ Page 3 ] of Capricorn Serial Killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
3. #103 of 651[ Page 7 ] of the A-Z List of Serial Killers
4. #167 of 327[ Page 12 ] of Serial Killers active in the United States
5. #308 of 651[ Page 21 ] of serial killers sorted by Years Active
6. #352 of 651[ Page 24 ] of serial killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
7. #458 of 651[ Page 31 ] of serial killers sorted by Profile Completeness

Statistics:

Serial Killers Statistics, charts Ray Copeland is included in: Active Serial Killers by Country, Serial Killers By Gender, Age of Serial Killer by Date, Killers By Astrological Sign, Killers By Birth Month, Sexual Preference, Active Serial Killers by Year and Statistical Boolean Questions.

Years Active:

• 1986
• 1987
• 1988
• 1989