Tommy Lynn Sells

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Tommy Lynn Sells 999367
3872 FM 350 South
Livinston, TX 77351

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Tommy Lynn Sells is an American serial killer. He was born on June 28, 1964 in Oakland, California.

Sells and his twin sister, Tammy Jean, contracted meningitis when they were 18 months old. While Sells suffered a high fever, he survived. His sister, however, died from the inflammation. Shortly thereafter, Sells was sent to live with his aunt Bonnie Woodall in Holcomb, Missouri. He lived with Woodall until he was five.

When Sells was eight he began spending time with a man named Willis Clark from a neighboring city who would later be identified as a child molester.

Sells started traveling in order to find work. Because he was homeless at the time, he hitched rides, hopped trains and at one point stole a vehicle. He held several different jobs, often doing menial labor.

Lynn Sells claims he committed his first murder at age 16. While working as a carny in Missouri during the summer of 1985 Sells met Ena Cordt. According to Sells, Cordt invited him to her home where they had consensual sex. The bodies of Cordt and her four-year-old son were found three days later.

Sells is suspected as the perpetrator for the following crimes:

* The murder of Suzanne Korcz in New York during May 1987
* The November 1987 murder of a family in Illinois.
* Killing a co-worker in Texas during April 1998.