The man serving a life sentence for killing 14-year-old Beth Ann Mote of Oakwood has been transferred to the Montgomery County jail while waiting for a hearing next week.
Eugene W. Gall Jr., 67, is a convicted kidnapper, rapist and murderer. He was also sentenced to death in Kentucky for the murder of 12-year-old Lisa Jansen in 1978. He took her off a Cincinnati street, drove her to Kentucky, then raped and shot her. Convicted in 1978, Gall was sent to death row. He appealed.
His conviction was overturned in 2001 by the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that Gall didn't get a fair trial because it did not address the issue that Gall didn't have the chance to show he may have had an "extreme emotional disturbance" before the murder. If he could prove he did, the appeals court said he could have been declared legally insane and sent to a mental hospital, not death row.
The ruling wiped the slate clean for Gall, like it never happened. That decision was affirmed in 2010 by a federal appeals court.
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In September 2013, The Ohio Parole Board notified the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office that Gall was eligible for parole because of the credit he was given for 16 years he served in the death of Jansen. That ruling has since been overruled, meaning he isn't eligible for parole. He's now appealing that ruling.
He was sent to Ohio to serve a life sentence for killing Beth Ann Mote of Oakwood in 1977.
In 1979, he pleaded guilty to killing the tiny girl. At just 75 pounds, Beth Ann was snatched at knifepoint while walking to school in Oakwood. Gall held the child captive for five hours, took her to a wooded area of Miami Twp., raped her, tied her to a tree and stabbed her to death.
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Authorities say they know he abducted and raped at least four more girls in Dayton, Beavercreek and Cincinnati. At the time, he was given the name "The Friday Night Rapist."
Gall is scheduled to be in court at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 8, in front of Judge Gregory F. Singer to appeal the ruling that he doesn't get credit for serving 16 years in Kentucky. Also, the prosecutor wants Gall to be classified as a sexual predator, a law that went into effect after he went to prison.
"We want him classified as a sexual predator so that if he would ever be released, he would have to register every 90 days for life," said Mary Montgomery, of the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office.
Our reporter will be there in court and will bring you the latest on his case.