Alvin Howard Neelley Jr. (July 15, 1953 – October 21, 2005) and Judith Ann Adams Neelley (born June 7, 1964) are an American married couple who committed the kidnappings and torture murders of Lisa Ann Millican and Janice Kay Chatman; they also attempted a third abduction.
[2] Alvin was serving a life sentence at the Bostick State Prison in Hardwick, Georgia at the time of his death in 2005.
After meeting Neelley, she began her life of crime, committing armed robberies across the country (even when heavily pregnant) for which she was later caught.
[4] She was with other residents of the Ethel Harpst Home, a facility for neglected and abused girls and boys located in Cedartown, Georgia.
[1] The Neelleys had previously committed other crimes in the mall, but the Millican case was their move into sexual torture murder.
[1] Judith later called various police agencies several times to report the location of Lisa's body, where it was found on the canyon floor draped over a fallen tree.
[4] Hancock was shot while Chatman was abducted and brought back to the Neelleys' motel room, where she was tortured and murdered.
[4] The trial lasted for six weeks; Judith was ultimately convicted of the torture murder of Lisa Ann Millican.
Judith would have been eligible for parole in January 2014, at age 49, but the Alabama legislature passed a law in 2003 that made her ineligible.
On a scale developed by forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone, Judith was ranked as a category 22 killer, the "most evil" level deemed for serial torture murderers.