Tony Ray Amati
American man convicted of murder
Anthony "Tony" Ray Amati (born June 28, 1976), known as The Thrill Killer, is an American man connected to the deaths of three men from May to August 1996. The FBI was brought in to find Amati's whereabouts and added him to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on February 27, 1998. He was arrested two days later, tried, found guilty of the murder of Keith Dyer, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 40 years served in 1999.
Early life
Amati was born in Carbondale, Illinois. He and his family moved to Las Vegas in 1992. He graduated from Clark High School with honors in 1994. Amati was still in high school when he got a job as a telemarketer. During his murder trial, a doctor said he was highly intelligent, able to discern right from wrong, and exhibited many of the traits of obsessive–compulsive disorder. "He has the personality characteristics that you would see in a good accountant", the doctor testified.
Robbery and murders
On May 26, 1996, Amati and two accomplices, 27-year-old Troy Sampson and 23-year-old Edward James, robbed Master Shooter's Supply, a gun store in southern Las Vegas, of $30,000 worth of guns and ammunition.
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