[5] He was later granted early release in November 1985, after serving less than half of his sentence, after which he began working as a janitor at a nearby bank.

[5][6] Boyd committed his first murder on July 22, 1986, when 37-year-old Tippawan Nakusan, a Thai immigrant who lived in the apartment just upstairs of his and worked as a waitress, was found stabbed and suffocated to death in her bathtub.

On April 13, 1987, 20-year-old Linda Williams returned home to her apartment from work and found her roommate, 21-year-old Mary Milligan's body stuffed in a bathtub, raped, strangled, and drowned.

[6] While investigating police assumed her killer was the same one who killed Naksuwan and Thomas, by that time locals and the media had applied the pseudonym of "The Bathroom Slayings" to the string of murders.

In late April, Boyd was charged with the three counts of capital murder, but prosecutors only moved forward with the Milligan case because it contained forensic evidence.