Phillip Carl Jablonski

Phillip Carl Jablonski (born January 3, 1946) is an American serial killer, originally from Johua Trhee (California), convicted of killing five women in California and Utah between 1978 and 1991.

Sexual offenses
Jablonski met his first wife, Alice McGowan, in high school. He enlisted in the army in 1966 and was sent abroad. They married in 1968 when he returned to the United States. While living in Texas, Jablonski became violent during sex, put a pillow on McGowan's face and tried to suffocate her. On several occasions, he strangled her until she was unconscious.

After McGowan left him, Jablonski got involved with Jane Sanders, whom he met in November 1968. He raped Sanders on his first date, which she did not report. She became pregnant and moved to California in July 1969, after Jablonski left the army. On one occasion, while having sex, Sanders wanted to stop. Jablonski pulled out a gun and threatened to shoot him if he didn't continue. He hit her with the butt of the gun and she passed out. When she regained consciousness, he was having sex with her. She left him in 1972. [1]: 17-18

In late 1972, Jablonski raped a well-known woman at knife point in her home while her baby was in the room. The woman escaped and ran to a neighbor's house, who called the police. Jablonski was arrested and convicted of the rape.

Murders
In February 1977, Jablonski met Linda Kimball and in August they lived together. Kimball gave birth to her daughter in December 1977.

On the night of July 6, 1978, Kimball's mother, Isobel Pahls, who lived nearby, was awakened by Jablonski. He told her that he had come to rape her, but he didn't because when he looked at her face "all he could see was Linda's face." Pahls managed to escape to a neighbor's house and did not report the incident to the police. A few days after the incident, Kimball left Jablonski and she and her daughter moved in with Pahls.

On the morning of July 16, Kimball returned to the apartment he had shared with Jablonski to collect his baby's belongings. That afternoon she was found dead inside the apartment. He had been beaten, stabbed and strangled. Jablonski was arrested 11 days later.

He served 12 years in prison for the murder of Kimball and was released in 1990.

Carol Spadoni met and married Jablonski in 1982, after responding to an ad published in a newspaper while Jablonski was serving a prison sentence. On April 23, 1991, Spadoni, 46, and his mother, Eva Petersen, 72, were murdered at his home in Burlingame.

Jablonski was charged with the death of Fathyma Vann, 38, in Indio, California, on April 22, 1991. Vann was a fellow student at the local community college that Jablonski attended to meet the conditions of his probation. Vann, a widowed mother of two teenagers, recently a widow, was found shot in the head and sexually assaulted, lying naked in a shallow ditch in the Indian desert with the words "I love Jesus" carved on her back. His body had undergone other mutilations, including the removal of his eyes and ears.

Jablonski was also charged with the theft and subsequent murder of Margie Rogers, 58, in Grand County, Utah, on April 27, 1991. Rogers had been sexually assaulted and was shot twice in the head.

He was arrested on April 28, 1991 in Kansas. He was convicted of the murders and sentenced to death.

In January 2006, the Supreme Court of California confirmed Jablonski's death sentence on appeal.