Ronald Woomer

Ronald Raymond Woomer (1954 – April 27, 1990) was an American convicted spree killer. In February 1979, Woomer and an accomplice Eugene Skaar travelled from West Virginia to South Carolina to commit robbery and murder. The duo first robbed and killed coin collector John Turner in Cottageville, before they went to Georgetown County and fatally shot both Arnie Lee Richardson and his sister-in-law, Earldean Wright, and wounded Richardson's five-year-old daughter. In their third and final offense at Horry County, Skaar and Woomer abducted two female convenience store clerks, who were both raped and shot by the men, leading to the death of Della Louise Sellers and left Wanda Summers injured.

Soon after the crime spree, Woomer was arrested at a hotel by the police while Skaar committed suicide to avoid capture. Woomer was brought to trial for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sellers, and sentenced to death on July 20, 1979. Woomer was also convicted of the murder of Turner and sentenced to death, but his conviction was vacated upon appeal, while he received two life sentences for killing Richardson and Wright. Subsequently, despite a re-trial and several more appeals, Woomer was ultimately executed by the electric chair at the Broad River Correctional Institution on April 27, 1990.