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families tend to have lower IQs than children from small families but Debra was actually diagnosed as being simple. This mild retardation may have been exacerbated by a head injury she suffered as a child.
    Bored, the pretty teenager dropped out of high school and took a range of menial jobs. At home she remained exceptionally quiet. Her employers noticed that she was a passive girl who was easily led.
    Yet she wasn’t entirely without free will, breaking off her engagement to a nice young man at age twenty-one when she met the outwardly more charismatic Alton. Her family begged her to reconsider but she fell quickly in love with Coleman who offered excitement with his tales of other cities and his flashy stolen cars.
    They quickly moved in together and he introduced her to his increasingly violent brand of sex. She remained devoted to him even though he was often cruel to her, and she tolerated his need to dress in women’s clothing: men who’ve survived life with an abusive mother often feel the need to crossdress.
    But even having this willing sex slave wasn’t enough for Coleman – he wanted to hurt and humiliate men, women and children just as he’d been hurt and humiliated himself.
The first murder
    Alton and Debra befriended a Mrs Wheat and her nine-year -old daughter Vernita from Kenosha, introducing themselves with false names. On 29th May 1984 they took Vernita on an outing to nearby Waukegan. Her mother happily waved the trio off.
    When they had the nine-year-old alone, Alton beat, raped and strangled her. (Her body wouldn’t be found until 19th June, dumped in a derelict building.) When the police began to investigate the child’s disappearance, Debra and Alton went on the run. She’d spend much of the next two months helping her lover to hold up and kidnap various victims for money or for sexual thrills, though, seated in the abduction car, she often stared blankly into space.
The second murder
    On 17th June twenty-five-year-old Donna Williams, a beauty therapist residing in the town of Gary, became their next victim. Coleman and Brown asked her to show them her local church and she obligingly drove them in its direction. But they kidnapped her and Alton Coleman raped her and strangled her with her own tights. They drove around with her body in the boot, later dumping it in an abandoned Detroit house. (Despite an intensive search, her body wouldn’t be found until the following month.)
The third murder
    On 18th June, the day after murdering Donna Williams, they killed again. Seven-year-old Tamika Turks and nine-year -old Annie were on their way back from the sweetshop when Debra and Alton stopped and offered them a ride home. (Most journalists have described the girls as cousins, but nine-year-old Annie was actually Tamika’s aunt.) The children had been warned not to go off with strange men but were happy to accept a lift when they saw Debra in the car.
    But the couple drove to the nearby woods then bound and gagged the children. Tamika kept crying so Debra held her down and tried to suffocate her with her hand whilst Alton stamped on her face and chest. He raped her then strangled her to death with a strip of bedsheet that he’d brought from the house.
    Both Debra and Alton now made nine-year-old Annie perform oral sex on them. Afterwards, Coleman raped and stabbed the child so viciously that her intestines protruded from her vagina. He beat her about the head, strangled her and believed that he’d killed her – but she revived after the couple had left and was able to identify them from police photographs.
An ongoing terror spree
    The psychological peace that killing brings to the pathological mind didn’t last for very long, so the lovers varied their acts of violence. Throughout the next few weeks they would commit numerous armed robberies for money and would terrorise and rape other victims in order to feel powerful and have fun. They sometimes stayed with friends for a few days, then tied