Lucious Boyd (born March 22, 1959)[1] is an American convicted murderer, rapist, and suspected serial killer who is currently on death row in Florida.

Boyd was sentenced to death for the 1998 rape and murder of 21-year-old Dawnia Dacosta and is a suspect in at least ten other homicides and disappearances.

[6] On October 18, 1993, Boyd stabbed Roderick Bullard to death on a Fort Lauderdale street with a kitchen knife during an argument over an automobile.

During the trial, Boyd's defense attorneys turned the tables on Bullard, playing up the fact that he had cocaine in his bloodstream.

[3] Police believe Boyd is responsible for a number of unsolved murders, the sexual assaults of several women, and the disappearance of 25-year-old Danielle Zacot from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1999.

[2][6] On August 13, 1997, the naked body of 24-year-old Melissa Floyd was found in some high grass near a guardrail on I95 in Palm Beach County.

[6] Dawnia Hope Dacosta was a 21-year-old choir singer and student studying to become a pediatric nurse practitioner.

[7] Her body, wrapped in sheets and a plastic shower curtain, was dumped in an alley behind a warehouse in Oakland Park and was not discovered until December 7.

[6] Detectives from the Broward County Sheriff's Office began their investigation into Dacosta's murder by looking for the van.

[6] On March 25, 1999, a sample of Boyd's DNA came back from the crime lab as a match to the semen found on Dacosta's body.

He was called a "cold-blooded killer without a conscience," by an interviewing detective and was told he would be going to jail for raping and killing Dacosta.

Before he was sent to jail, Boyd accused the Broward County Sheriff's Office of working for the Ku Klux Klan and claimed he was being set up in an attempt to discredit his family.

Truppner, who remained a Jane Doe for nearly twenty-five years, was a 41-year-old mother of two children and a Puerto Rico native who moved to South Florida in the mid-90s.

[9][10][11] Dacosta's murder and the events leading to Boyd's arrest and conviction were documented on an episode of the TV series Forensic Files called "Church Dis-service".