Kerry Lyn Dalton

Who is Kerry Lyn Dalton?

Kerry Lyn Dalton was convicted of first degree murder in March 1995 and sentenced to death by lethal injection the same year. Since her sentencing she has been incarcerated at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, California, awaiting her first appeal.

Dalton, accused of torturing and murdering Irene Louise May on June 26, 1988 at a mobile home park in Live Oak Springs, California, was arrested on May 14, 1992. She and three others, Mark Lee Tompkins, Sheryl Ann Baker, and another man known only by the name "George", were alleged to have used various weapons to commit a torture-murder: a cast-iron frying pan, a knife, and a syringe filled with battery acid.

The night of the alleged murder, a Sheriff was called to the same mobile home residence on a burglary call, he reported no evidence of a burglary or any criminal activity besides that the resident, Ms. JoAnn Fedor, was high on methamphetamine. He searched inside and outside the residence and noted in his report the resident was a "5150", police code for mentally incapable to comprehend reality. No weapons were ever recovered, nor was any blood evidence; there was no physical evidence of any kind for the jury to consider.