The following is a list of shootings and a bombing linked by authorities to Joseph Paul Franklin, who is awaiting trial for capital murder in St. Louis, according to a report published Sunday in The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News:
- July 29, 1977: A synagogue in Chattanooga, Tenn., is bombed. On June 13, 1984, Franklin confessed and was sentenced to 31 years in prison.
- Aug. 7, 1977: Alphonse Manning and Toni Schwenn, both 23, are shot dead while shopping in Madison, Wis. He was black, she was white. In February 1986, Franklin was convicted of the murders and sentenced to two life terms.
- Oct. 7, 1977: Gerald Gordon, 42, and William Ash, 30, are shot by a sniper outside a synagogue in Richmond Heights, Mo. Gordon died, Ash was wounded. Franklin is awaiting trial for murder in the case. The Star reported he admits the slaying.
- July 29, 1978: William Bryant Tatum, 22, and Nancy Diane Hilton, 18, are shot and killed with a shotgun while walking out of a Pizza Hut in a Chattanooga suburb. He was black, she was white. Franklin's murder trial is pending.
- March 6, 1978: Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and his attorney, Gene Reeves, are both shot and wounded by a sniper outside a courthouse in Lawrenceville, Ga. Franklin was charged in the shooting but never tried. He told The Star he did it because Flynt published sexually explicit photos of a racially mixed couple.
- July 29, 1979: Harold McGiver, 29, a black man, is shot dead by a sniper as he leaves his job at a Taco Bell restaurant in suburban Chattanooga, Tenn. Franklin is a suspect.
- Aug. 8, 1979: Raymond Taylor, 28, a black man, is mortally wounded by a sniper while eating at a Burger King in Falls Church, Va. Franklin is a suspect.
- Jan. 12, 1980: Lawrence E. Reese, 22, a black man, is shot and killed by a sniper while waiting in line at a Church's Chicken outlet in Indianapolis.
- Jan 14, 1980: Leo Watkins, 19, a black man, is shot and killed by a sniper while helping his father at a northeastside Indianapolis market. Franklin was charged in March 1981 with murdering Watkins and Reese, but the cases were dropped after he was convicted in Utah. The Star reported that Franklin admits both killings.
- April 23, 1980: Myron Brooks, 32, and his girlfriend, Barbara Evans, 26, are shot and wounded in Indianapolis after confronting the driver of a car who had been following them. Brooks is black, Evans is white. The Star said Franklin admits the shooting.
- May 29, 1980: Urban League President Vernon Jordan is shot and wounded by a sniper in Fort Wayne. Franklin is indicted but a jury acquits him on Aug. 17, 1982. He later admitted the shooting to reporters from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Star.
- June 6, 1980: Dante Brown, 13, and Darrell Laine, 14, are shot and killed by a sniper as they walk on a railroad overpass. Both were black. Franklin is a suspect.
- June 15, 1980: Kathleen Mikula, 16, and Arthur Smothers, 22, are shot and killed by a sniper while walking together in Johnstown, Ohio. She was white, he was black. Franklin is a suspect.
- Aug. 20, 1980: Ted Fields, 20, and David Martin, 18, both black, are shot and killed by a sniper in Salt Lake City while jogging with two white women. In 1981, Franklin was convicted of violating their civil rights and sentenced to consecutive life terms. On Aug. 27, 1981, a Utah state court jury convicted him of both murders, and he was sentenced to two more life terms.