Tony Ables

Tony Alvin Ables (born December 28, 1954) is an American serial killer convicted of multiple homicides in the Tampa Bay area.

Officially convicted of two murders, he was linked through DNA evidence in 2006 to two additional cases: the 1983 killing of 84-year-old Adeline McLaughlin and the 1987 death of his 31-year-old girlfriend, Deborah Kisor.

[3] Five months after his release, on June 25, 1983, Ables entered the apartment of 83-year-old Adeline McLaughlin, a retired widow from Worcester, Massachusetts, by breaking through a window.

[8] In early June 1990, Tony Alvin Ables was convicted of the murder of Marlene Burns and initially sentenced to death by electrocution.

[2] The murders of Adeline McLaughlin and Deborah Kisor remained unsolved until 2006, when homicide detectives submitted Ables' DNA to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.