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John Ewell

1957–

United States

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John Wesley Ewell (born 1956/1957) is an American serial killer who murdered four people at their residences in Hawthorne, California, over the span of two months in 2010. Prior to the murders, he was an activist who opposed California's "3-strikes" law, and he even appeared in a 2006 episode of The Montel Williams Show.

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