Convicted Murderer Lucious Boyd Indicted for Second 1998 Murder

Florida detectives suspect Boyd, already on death row, may be linked to more unsolved killings from the 1990s.

Lucious Boyd, a convicted murderer on Florida’s death row, has been indicted for the 1998 murder of Eileen Truppner, a mother of two and former businesswoman.
Boyd is already facing execution for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of 21-year-old nursing student Dawnia Dacosta that happened two weeks prior to Truppner's murder.
Truppner’s body had been unidentified until earlier this year when its DNA was matched to her family. DNA testing of evidence left by the killer matched Boyd.
Detectives throughout Florida are now looking at Boyd as a possible suspect in unsolved killings from the 1990s as he was known to travel the state.
Boyd was found not guilty of a man’s murder in 1993 after he claimed self-defense and was acquitted of rape in 1997. He insisted that law enforcement had a vendetta against him.