One afternoon, his father caught his mother cheating on him and responded to the incident by killing the family's dog.

Judy recalled, "There's times when I can remember my mother pulling a gun out on my dad and trying to shoot him.

"[1] As a child, Judy was caught burning down a neighbor's garage and stabbing a classmate with a compass.

[1] At the age of 13, Judy pretended to be a Boy Scout, forced himself into a woman's home, raped her, and then tried to kill her with a pocketknife.

[8] On Saturday, April 28, 1979, Terry Lee Chasteen was on her way to drop her children off at a babysitter's house before going to work.

Once the children were ahead of them, Judy raped Chasteen, tied her hands and feet, and began choking her.

While in the punishment phase of the trial, Judy wanted it to be fast-paced, so he threatened the judge and jury and promised to kill again unless they sentenced him to death.

[11][12] His last meal consisted of prime rib, lobster tails, potatoes with sour cream, chef salad with French dressing and a dinner roll.

[14][15] In the week before he was executed, Judy confessed to his foster mother, Mary Carr, that he had raped and murdered other women in multiple states.

After raping one of the victims in 1978, he left her tied to a tree in a heavily wooded area, and did not know if she survived the ordeal.

[18] In 2002, author Bette Nunn theorized that Judy could have been responsible for the 1977 murder of Ann Harmeier, a 20-year-old student who attended Indiana University.

Her death was similar to Terry Chasteen's: both women were kidnapped from highways by someone who offered them help, both were raped and strangled with items they had on them, and both were dumped in isolated areas in Morgan County.