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OHIO SERIAL KILLER SENTENCED FOR ATLANTIC CO. MURDER
Phaedra Laird ( plaird@nbc40.net) - 4/8/11 03:43 pm
Last Updated - 4/8/11 03:43 pm
      

MAYS LANDING--It was more than 23 years ago that a woman's body had been dumped in Atlantic City, and now, decades later, an admitted serial killer has confessed to the crime. The man received additional time behind bars on Friday, on top of the back-to-back life sentences he's currently serving.

"It's just something we'll never forget." More than two decades after the death of their loved on, Donna Lee White, her family comes face to face with the man who's now confessed to killing her. "Mr. Colvin does not show any remorse," said her brother, Marshall Smith, "it's a heinous crime what he did to this family."

Dellimus Colvin had nothing to say to the family of the woman he admitted to strangling back in September of 1987. He's an admitted serial killer who's already serving back-to-back life sentences in Ohio for murdering five women there, years after killing White, who overdosed on cocaine after he brought her to his Atlantic City apartment. "She was barely breathing, he strangled her, placed a plastic bag over her head and went out for a couple of hours," the Judge read from the report.

White's death had initially been ruled accidental, due to cocaine intoxication, but the case was reopened in 2009, after investigators here learned of Colvin's Ohio convictions. He eventually confessed to killing White, who was a triplet and a member of a close, now devastated family. "His actions caused the death of the other two," said Smith in court, "they were just that close, so by him murdering the one, the other two eventually died as a result, indirect result of his actions."

"He also stated she was not his first victim," said the Judge. It was something Colvin said wasn't true, eventually causing a member of White's family to lash out verbally.

"Somehow they got it that I'd killed before, no that's not true," Colvin told the judge, "I stated that was not the first time I had seen someone O.D."

"Stop lying, coward," someone yelled at him.

The 30 year sentence Colvin received Friday will run simultaneously to the life sentences he's already serving, but it's little comfort to White's family, who's been grieving for more than 23 years. "No amount of money, nor any amount of years will ever satisfy them or bring their sister, mother, wife, back," said Assistant Prosecutor Erin Bisirri.

Colvin will be serving his time behind bars back in Ohio.



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