Kendall francois biography

Kendall L. Francois (July 26, 1971 – September 11, 2014) was an American serial killer convicted of killing eight women in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Kendall L. Francois was an American serial killer convicted of killing eight women in Poughkeepsie, New York, between 1996 and 1998.
They charged Kendall Francois, a 27-year-old unemployed school aide who lived in the house, with strangling one of the women to death.

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Body Dump: Kendall Francois, the Poughkeepsie Serial Killer

In the late 1990s in Poughkeepsie, New York, the bodies of prostitutes were piling up. Lt. Bill Siegrist knew a serial killer was preying on the women. Determined to stop any further killing, Siegrist followed a trail that led him to Kendall Francois, a middle school monitor with the nickname Stinky, because of his slovenly hygiene. When Francois was finally arrested for his crimes, police found seven bodies in the attic and crawl space of his house, with one woman still missing. A former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of the New York Times, Fred Rosen is a veteran true crime and history author of twenty-four published books. A native of Brooklyn, he became a writer at about 1 a.m. one night in 1977 at University of Southern California's film school. Earlier that morning, his editing professor, Ken Robinson, who later edited the film Purple Rain, challenged him. "You're supposed to be a writer," he said after sharply criticizing a script Rosen wrote for the class.

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Kendall Francois

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Kendall Francois was born in the city of Poughkeepsie and grew up on Fulton Street. He attended Arlington High School, where the 6'4" teenager played football on the school team until he graduated in 1989. He joined the Army in 1990 and went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for basic training. In 1993, Kendall attended class at Dutchess County Community College as a liberal arts major. He continued as a student on and off until 1998.

Although he was not working at the time of his arrest, he did have several jobs in the past. Kendall was employed at the Arlington Middle School from 1996-97, which is a few miles from Fulton Avenue, as a school monitor. Some teachers at the school complained about Kendall's behavior, especially toward the female students. He often played with the girls in an inappropriate manner, touching their hair and telling sexual jokes. Although he had a clean record at the Middle School, children had a strange name for Kendall. They called him "Stinky."

During the time span surrounding the disappearances, Kend

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Kendall Francois: The Killer on Fulton Avenue

The weekend my friend Juan moved into an apartment behind the house, the police found the bodies. The smell of it still haunts him.

Most of my friends who lived near there brought up the stench. The New York Times reported that even then-Dutchess County District Attorney, William V. Grady, confirmed that it "is not your average home -- it stinks, it is garbage-ridden."

The odor of the green clapboard home at 99 Fulton Avenue in Poughkeepsie reached far enough to gag people on the sidewalk. The house was ramshackle on an otherwise idyllic middle-class street. According to The Daily News, maggots prospered in the sinks, and Kendall Francois' younger sister Kierstyn (sometimes spelled at Kirsten and Kirstyn in reports) slept on a mattress coated with their casings. It is two blocks from Vassar College. Hardly a bad neighborhood and less than a stone's throw on either side from a neighbor. One neighbor is so close that one could look from its second floor into the attic.

Francois used this squalor to his advantage, telling his