Anthony Guy Walker (born July 11, 1957) is an American criminal and serial killer responsible for the murders of at least six people in Lenawee County, Michigan between 1975 and 1986.
[1] A career criminal with a string of convictions for violent sexual offenses, Walker's first admitted murder was that of 24-year-old Arleen Salcedo in 1975.
The kidnapping charge was dropped, but he pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal sexual conduct and received a few years imprisonment.
[3] An autopsy determined that Madison and Carey had been killed prior to the house being set ablaze, and that the child had died as a result of it.
[3] In 1986, while imprisoned at the now-closed Southern Michigan Institution near Jackson, Anthony paid another inmate to kill 40-year-old Daniel A. Staggs, a convict serving a life sentence for armed robbery.
[3] In 2010, after technological advancements and discovery of additional witnesses, cold case investigators arraigned Anthony Guy Walker on charges of committing the Madison-Carey killings.
[3][2] At his trial, Walker plead guilty to killing both women, but vehemently denied setting the fire that resulted in young Jessica's death.