![]() Two years later he won a retrial and his sentence was reduced to life without parole. ![]() At the time, he became famous as the nation's youngest inmate on death row. In 1985, Ronald Ward, aged 15, was tried and sentenced to death for the murders of Lois Townsend Jarvis, 76, Audrey Townsend, 72, and Chris Simmons, 12. In 1961, 15 year old Gurvis Nichols shot to death two ten year old children, stating that he did it because he wanted to see God. He was sent to a mental institution and later released, believed to be living in Germantown, a suburb of Memphis, in 1993. The police attempted to locate him to question him about the 1993 murders but could not find him. For a town of its size West Memphis has had an unusual number of high profile cases of multiple murders involving children.
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