James Ford is a white man who has been
on death row in the state of Florida since 06/03/99.
Crime
He was convicted of 2 counts of
Premeditated 1st Degree Murder, committed on 04/06/97.
James (“Jimbo”) Dennis Ford and Greg Malnory were co-workers at the
South Florida Sod Farm in Charlotte County. On Sunday morning, April
6, 1997, Ford made plans to go fishing later that day with Greg and his
wife Kim on the sod farm. The relevant facts are set forth in the
trial court's sentencing order:In the early afternoon of April 7, 1997, an employee of the South Florida Sod Farm made a gruesome discovery on the grounds of the 7,000 acre farm located in a remote area of Charlotte County. At the scene of these crimes, authorities found the pickup truck owned by Greg and Kim Malnory in the middle of a field. Some distance away, they found the body of Greg Malnory. He had been shot in the head from behind by what was later determined to be a .22 caliber rifle.
The shooting evidently occurred somewhere in the vicinity of the crime scene, perhaps between the Malnorys' truck and a nearby pond. Greg then apparently staggered out into the middle of the field, followed by the Defendant.
The Defendant then inflicted at least seven blunt force injuries to the head and face of Greg Malnory with what has been described by the medical examiner as a blunt instrument consistent with an axe. Greg was found lying on his back in the middle of the field with his throat slit nearly from ear to ear, so deeply that underlying muscle tissue was exposed. The massive amount of blood found on Greg Malnory's chest and shirt lead [sic] to the inescapable conclusion that Greg was first shot in the head, that the bullet only disabled him, and that the Defendant then savagely killed him by beating him to death and slitting his throat while Greg was lying on his back in the middle of the field.
The body of Kimberly Malnory was found near the truck. Evidence revealed the existence of nine blunt force injuries to her head, one of which fractured and penetrated her skull. Defensive wounds were found on the backs of Kim's arms indicating that she put up a struggle. There was also evidence of two oval discolorations on the superficial tissues on the inside of Kimberly Malnory's thighs which were suggestive of thumb prints. These marks were made by the Defendant while Kimberly Malnory was alive.
DNA testing revealed the presence of the Defendant's semen inside Kimberly Malnory and on her shirt. The single piece bathing suit that Kimberly Malnory was wearing under her shirt at the time of the killings had been sliced clean through the crotch as if with a sharp knife. Before raping Kimberly Malnory, the Defendant took the weapon he had used to shoot Gregory Malnory, a .22 caliber single-shot, bolt-action rifle named “old Betsy,” and reloaded it with another bullet. A cast of Kimberly Malnory's pallet [sic] revealed that the Defendant then stuck the end of the barrel of the rifle inside Kimberly Malnory's mouth and pulled the trigger.
Address
You can write to this inmate
at:
James Ford 763722
Union CI
P.O. Box 1000
Raiford, Florida 32083
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