Dazed and Delusional: Retracing the recent years of suspected serial killer Samuel Legg III (with clip)
Feb 22, 2019
"CLEVELAND — Alone and wandering, he sauntered down a rural road in the sun-bleached desert. He was looking for a man that didn’t exist. He was talking to no one. His skin, so badly burnt, deputies noted blisters on his scorched body. Dazed, disoriented and delusional, the man was later identified as Samuel William Legg III, the same man who, more than three years later, would be indicted, arrested and accused of being Northeast Ohio’s newest serial killer.
Through scores of court records, transcripts and police reports, News 5 has pieced together the four years leading up to Legg’s arrest last month for a rape that happened in Medina County in 1997. On the day of his arraignment, Legg was also indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury for the 1992 murder of a woman outside a truck stop near Austintown. The records and timelines uncovered by News 5 suggest Legg, who has also been linked to at least three more unsolved homicides, had lost his mind years before he lost his freedom....
Given Legg’s recent history of documented mental illness, a judge has ordered Legg to undergo an evaluation that will determine whether he is competent to stand trial and assist in his own defense.
That hearing has been scheduled for mid-April."
Suspected serial killer's recent years mired by delusions
