18 years after execution, judge asked to unveil prison drawings (2 youths tortured & killed)

My kids were all grade schoolers at the time. The community was terrorised from the time of the first kidnapping until Joubert was caught.

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http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/years-after-execution-judge-asked-to-unveil-prison-drawings/article_6634d9e8-f8a6-11e3-befd-001a4bcf6878.html


THE WORLD-HERALD
John Joubert walks through a Sarpy County Courthouse corridor after leaving jail for the courtroom in September 1984. He is escorted by Sgt. Fred Rosemann (uniform) and Capt. Dan Williamson.


POSTED: FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2014 1:12 PM | UPDATED: 5:21 PM, FRI JUN 20, 2014.
By Paul Hammel / World-Herald staff writer

LINCOLN — Eighteen years after John Joubert was executed for the kidnap-murders of two Sarpy County boys, a judge was asked Friday to publicly release two drawings Joubert made while in prison.

Mark Pettit, a former Omaha broadcaster who wrote about Joubert’s slayings, said he wants to see the drawings so he can provide the final chapter to the 1983 slayings, which spread terror across the metropolitan area until Joubert’s arrest in January 1984.

“As a journalist, you don’t like to leave any stone unturned. I feel like this is the only stone unturned,” Pettit said.

He said he would consider using the drawings — which were described as depicting “sadistic” images of torture and stabbings of two young boys — in a new edition of his book, “A Need to Kill.”

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