John Joubert (serial killer)
American serial killer (1963–1996)
John Joseph Joubert IV (July 2, 1963 – July 17, 1996) was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing three boys in Maine and Nebraska between 1982 and 1983. He pleaded guilty in Nebraska to the murders of Danny Joe Eberle and Christopher Walden and was sentenced to death. He was later convicted by a jury in Maine of murdering Richard Stetson and received a life sentence. Joubert was executed by electrocution at the Nebraska State Penitentiary on July 17, 1996.
Childhood
Joubert was born on July 2, 1963, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He had one sister. In 1969, at the age of six, his parents divorced; in 1974, he and his sister moved with their mother to an unkempt, dilapidated apartment in Portland, Maine. Despite wanting to do so, Joubert was not allowed to visit his father, and grew to despise his controlling mother. "My impression was that the mother was cold and extremely manipulative", said Rich Pitre, Joubert's high school band teacher, friend, and mentor. "He was under a very, very tight leash".
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