{{short description|Bahamian serial killer}} {{Infobox serial killer | name = Cordell Farrington | image = | image_size = | caption = | alt = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1968}} | birth_place = Nassau, Bahamas | death_date = | death_place = | cause = | conviction = Manslaughter (5 counts) (reduced from murder on appeal) | sentence = Death; commuted to life imprisonment | victims = 5 | beginyear = 2002 | endyear = 2003 | country = Bahamas | states = Grand Bahama | apprehended = October 26, 2003 | imprisoned = }}
'''Cordell Farrington''' (born 1968) is a Bahamian serial killer who killed four children and his adult lover from 2002 to 2003.<ref name=serial>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/10/richardluscombe|title=Serial murder police find remains|author=Richard Luscombe|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 November 2003}}</ref> Initially sentenced to death for killing 22-year-old Jamal Robins, he was later resentenced to another count of life imprisonment on the basis of his insanity.
==Early life== Farrington was born in 1968, and according to his own claims, was abused as a child. At some point in his life, he had become addicted to crack cocaine but managed to rehabilitate himself over time.<ref name=nice>{{cite news|url=https://www.news24.com/World/News/Serial-killer-was-so-nice-20031103|title=Serial killer was 'so nice'|author=Dominic Duncombe|work=News24|date=4 November 2003}}</ref> Farrington then went on to attempt working at several places, including training as a priest,<ref name=serial/> before settling to work at a warehouse.<ref name=nice/> In his spare time, he would draw pictures of boys crying, some of which were even showcased at exhibitions at the Artists' Association of Grand Bahama.<ref name=serial/>
At some point, he married a woman identified only by the name of 'Dean', with whom he had a daughter. According to Dean, Farrington was a good father, but they eventually had to part ways after she noticed he had begun losing weight too fast and suspected he had taken up smoking crack again.<ref name=nice/>
==Murders and surrender== Over a period of five months, a total of 5 boys suddenly vanished overtime from Grand Bahama: Mackinson Colas (11), DeAngelo Mackenzie (13), Junior Reme (11), Desmond Rolle (14) and Jake Grant (12).<ref name=nice/> Grant's case was later determined to be unrelated to the deaths, but the remaining cases shocked the country's population. The Royal Bahamas police detectives couldn't keep up with the pressure from the angry families, and so, they got in contact with Scotland Yard and the FBI.<ref name=serial/>
However, on October 26, 2003, Farrington gave himself up to the police, confessing to the murders of the boys, as well as the killing of his lover Jamal Robins in Freeport in 2002, whom he had met while in a rehabilitation center.<ref name=nice/> He then directed the police to remote parts of the island and to his house, where, in numbered boxes, the bones of some of the children were found.<ref name=serial/>
==Trials and sentence== Farrington was soon after arraigned before the court, and was subsequently sentenced to death for killing Robins and an additional four life sentences for the boys' murders.<ref name=serial/> His charges were reduced to manslaughter, as it was determined he suffered from a severe personality disorder.<ref name=man>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tribune242.com/news/2014/dec/03/serial-killer-challenges-sentence-for/|title=Serial Killer Challenges Sentence For Manslaughter Of His Lover|author=Lamech Johnson|publisher=Tribune 242|date=3 December 2014}}</ref>
In 2014, Farrington appeared before the court again, with the request of having his sentence quashed in connection with Robins' killing.<ref name=quash>{{Cite web|url=https://thenassauguardian.com/2015/03/31/court-quashes-farringtons-sentence-for-lovers-killing/|title=Court quashes Farrington's sentence for lover's killing|publisher=The Nassau Guardian|date=31 March 2015}}</ref> He based his reasoning upon the case of Dominic Moss, a man initially convicted of killing a woman in a drunk driving incident and later released from prison.<ref name=man/> On March 31, 2015, the court quashed the sentence and replaced it with another count of life imprisonment.<ref name=quash/>
==See also== *List of serial killers by country
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://bahamianology.com/bahamian-serial-killers-when-evil-walks-among-us-part-one-2003/ Detailed article on the cases on Bahamianology.com]
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