End of the Line For Anthony Sully: Former California Cop Turned Serial Killer Passes Away on Death Row

A former California police officer who turned into a serial killer and had been on death row for the murders of six individuals in the 1980s has passed away due to natural causes, as confirmed by authorities.

Anthony Sully, aged 79, passed away on a Friday at a medical facility located outside the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, where he had been incarcerated for many decades, as reported by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The official cause of Anthony Sully's death will be determined by the Marin County Coroner's Office, as stated in a news release issued by the department on Monday.

Back in June 1986, Sully received a death sentence for his involvement in the killings of six victims: Kathryn Barrett, 24; Barbara Searcy, 22; Gloria Jean Fravel, 24; Brendan Oakden, 19; Michael Thomas, 24; and Phyllis Melendez, 20.

The victims had endured brutal beatings, stabbings, and gunshots within an electrical supply warehouse situated in the San Francisco Bay Area back in 1983. 

Shockingly, three of the victims' bodies were discovered crammed into barrels that had been discarded at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, according to reports from the San Jose Mercury News. Detectives were able to identify Sully through fingerprints found on some of the victims.

It is worth noting that Anthony Sully had served as a police officer in the Bay Area from 1966 to 1974. Even during his sentencing, he vehemently maintained that he had not received a fair trial. 

He reportedly addressed the judge, stating, "I am not a monster, not a maniac, not subhuman," as cited by the Mercury News, drawing from news accounts from that era.

In addition to Sully, another death row inmate, 71-year-old Ronald L. Sanders, also passed away from natural causes at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, according to corrections officials. 

Sanders had received a death sentence in March 1982 for the murder of Janice Dishroon Allen, aged 29.

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