Oba Chandler
Oba Chandler was an American man convicted and executed for the June 1989 triple murders of Joan Rogers and her two daughters, whose bodies were found, with their hands and feet bound, floating in Tampa Bay, Florida. Autopsies showed the victims had been thrown into the water while still alive. The case became highprofile in 1992 when local police posted enlargements of samples of a then unknown suspects handwriting, found on a pamphlet in the victims car, on billboards. Chandler was identified as the killer when his neighbor recognized the handwriting. This was the first such use of billboards by law enforcement in the U.S. billboards became useful tools in later searches for missing people.
Chandler was the fourth of five children born to Oba Chandler Sr. and Margaret Johnson, and was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he was 10160 years160 old in June 1957, his father hanged himself in the basement of the familys apartment. Chandler reportedly jumped into his fathers open grave at the funeral as the gravediggers were covering the coffin with dirt. Chandler fathered eight children, reportedly by seven women his youngest child was born in February 1989. Between May and September 1991concurrent with the police investigation of the Rogers family triple murderChandler was an informant for the U.S. Customs Bureaus Tampa office.
Source: Wikipedia