Terry Blair

Terry Anthony Blair (born September 16, 1961) is an American serial killer who was convicted of killing seven women of various ages in Kansas City, Missouri, though investigators believe he may have additional unidentified victims.

Terry Blair was the fourth eldest of ten siblings, and was born to a mother who suffered from mental illness and had only finished the 9th grade.

He has two sons, Terry Blair Jr and Marcel Johnson, and two grandsons, Demarcus and Kemon Johnson.

Many in Blair's family have faced criminal charges, including murder.

Blair's mother, Janice, shot and killed her common-law husband on August 16, 1978.

She entered an Alford plea for second degree murder and was sentenced to five years of probation, with a condition that she receive counseling, therapy, and psychiatric treatment.

Six months later, Blair's brother, Walter Blair Jr., allegedly killed 16-year-old Sandy Shannon during a robbery.

Walter was charged with capital murder, robbery, and assault, but the case was dropped after witnesses refused to testify.

On August 19, 1979, Walter Blair abducted, then shot and killed 21-year-old Katherine Jo Allen.

Allen was the alleged victim in a rape case and Walter was paid $6,000 to kill her.

He confessed to the murder, but later recanted.

Blair's sister, Warnetta U. Blair, her husband, Noila White III, and another man faced charges for the murder of James L. Bell, whose body was found on September 27, 1980.

Bell had been stabbed 30 times.

Warnetta agreed to testify against her husband in exchange for charges against her being dropped.

However, state law forbids spouses from testifying against each other.

In 1984, White III pleaded guilty to second degree murder and received a 12-year sentence.

In December 1989, Warnetta killed her boyfriend, Pablo P. Gomez, a drug dealer from Cuba.

Gomez's body was found bound and gagged.

According to prosecutors, Gomez had threatened to cut off his girlfriend's supply of crack cocaine.

Warnetta said she and a male friend did not intend to kill Gomez, and only tied him up so they could take his drugs and money.

She and her friend then went to a neighbor's apartment and said they had "messed up Pablo", before smoking crack that night.

In August 1990, Warnetta pleaded guilty to second degree murder and received a 10-year sentence.

On June 25, 1992, Blair's older brother, Clifford Miller, abducted a woman, forced her to perform oral sex at an abandoned house, and then beat her unconscious.

The victim was hospitalized for more than two months.

Her injuries consisted of a gunshot wound to the arm, a fractured skull, a broken jaw, and smashed cheekbones.

The injury to the victim's arm was so serious that she had to get a bone in her arm replaced with metal.

Walter was convicted of capital murder, sentenced to death, and executed on July 21, 1993, at the age of 32.

In 1994, Clifford was convicted of forcible sodomy, assault, kidnapping, and armed criminal action.

He was sentenced to two life terms plus 240 years.

She was released from prison in December 1999.

In December 1999, another of Blair's brothers, Daniel, pleaded guilty to federal drug charges and was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison.

He and another man had been dealing crack.

White III would himself be murdered by his son and Blair's nephew, Noila White IV, in 2001.

White IV pleaded guilty to second degree murder for killing his father and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Daniel was released from prison on January 19, 2007.

Two other nephews of Blair have faced criminal charges.

In 2013, he was convicted of second degree murder, first degree robbery, and two counts of armed criminal action for killing 22-year-old Montague Kevin Ashline during a robbery in Kansas City on June 24, 2009.

Diamond was sentenced to two life terms plus 100 years on those charges.

On appeal, his robbery conviction and one of his armed criminal action convictions were overturned, reducing his state sentence to life plus 50 years.

In 2011, Diamond Blair, who had previously served part of an 18-year sentence for kidnapping, robbery, and forcible sodomy as a teenager, was convicted of federal firearm charges and sentenced to 24 years and five months in prison.