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<\/a>\nCeleste Carrington. ‘Nuff said.<\/em><\/p>\n
With no money coming in to support Jackie and her brood, Carrington broke into a Dodge auto dealership in Redwood City on January 17, 1992, where along with cash and electronics she stole a loaded .357 Magnum pistol from an employee’s desk.<\/p>\n
On January 26, Carrington borrowed a neighbor’s car and used her stolen keys to gain entrance to an office building at 1123 Industrial Road in San Carlos.\u00a0 When she tripped off the alarm, custodian Victor Esparaz approached Carrington.\u00a0 She told him she was also from the janitorial company and was scheduled to work there that night.\u00a0 When Esparaz let his guard down, Carrington pulled out the large pistol on him and took forty dollars that he had in his wallet, his ATM card and his personal identification number.\u00a0 She made him get down on his knees before shooting the thirty-four-year-old in the head.<\/p>\n
Carrington was believed to have been involved in a dozen burglaries on the peninsula during the early months of 1992, all of them with the same method of operation.\u00a0 Using her stolen keys and a crowbar, Carrington would enter businesses that she used to clean and go through desks, looking for cash or anything of value.<\/p>\n
On March 11, 1992, Carrington got a ride from a neighbor to 777 California Street in Palo Alto, to burglarize yet another building she had the keys to.\u00a0 The lock to the building had been changed, but Carrington\u00a0saw two custodians inside and decided to wait until they finished before she would break in.\u00a0 Once the cleaning crew left, Carrington used a screwdriver to open the lock.\u00a0 The building was slim pickings for the thief, until she heard thirty-six-year-old property manager Carolyn Gleason enter the building.\u00a0 Ambushing her in a photocopy room, Carrington took four hundred dollars, an ATM card and the car keys from the frightened woman.\u00a0 She forced Gleason to her knees and mercilessly shot her in the head.<\/p>\n
Carrington took Gleason’s car and drove to ATM machines to raid Gleason’s bank account.\u00a0 Only two of the cash machines gave her money, and only a few hundred dollars.\u00a0 She ditched the car at a Palo Alto hospital and called a taxi to take her home to East Palo Alto.<\/p>\n
Five days later, on March 16, Carrington went to another office building at 801 Brewster Avenue in Redwood City.\u00a0 She was surprised to find the building still open, so she hid in a closet to wait for everyone to leave for the day.\u00a0 After the building cleared out, Carrington attempted to enter offices she had the keys to, but none of the locks would open.\u00a0 Spotting Dr. Allan Marks alone in his office, Carrington burst through the door waving her gun.\u00a0 The young pediatrician recognized her from when she cleaned his building and put up a fight.\u00a0 During the struggle, Dr. Marks was shot twice with the large caliber bullets hitting him in the left shoulder, left thumb, and right forearm.\u00a0 Luckily for the doctor, the last bullet in the pistol misfired.\u00a0 Carrington\u00a0managed to steal some sample drugs and access cards\u00a0before Marks shoved her out of his office, locking the door and calling the police.<\/p>\n
Amazingly, Carrington continued her burglary spree, possibly\u00a0committing two more burglaries until the early morning hours of March 21, when police from Los Altos, Redwood City, and Palo Alto arrived with a search warrant at the apartment she shared with Jackie and the three children.\u00a0 The detectives found a staggering amount of evidence, including the keys Carrington failed to return, as well as Gleason’s cash box, her PIN written on a piece of paper, and her purse.\u00a0 The police also found drug packets from Doctor Marks’ office, and the .357 Magnum pistol, with spent shells still inside the cylinders.<\/p>\n
The trial was an open and shut case with the evidence overwhelming the jury.\u00a0 Despite the public defender’s plea to spare her the death\u00a0penalty because of her horrible childhood, Celeste Simone Carrington was found guilty of the attempted murder of Dr. Allan Marks and guilty of the murders of Victor Esparaz and Carolyn Gleason. She remains on San Quentin’s death row.<\/p>\n
Culled from:\u00a0\u00a0California’s Deadliest Women<\/a>\u00a0by David Kulczyk<\/p>\n <\/p>\nSing Sing Prisoner Du Jour!<\/h3>\n