Ronald Lee White was a body builder who sold tanning beds for a living. He was also extremely attractive to females. It was not uncommon for women to simply just follow him in the street. But, and this is a very big but, he was a psychopathic killer. He was convicted of three murders but told authorities that he committed fifteen others. Considering the extremely callous and brutal fashion he killed his victims in, it is quite possibly true. His first victim was his room mate Paul Vosika, in 1987. White has given various reasons for killing Vosika but one was that he, (White) wanted to watch Star Trek, but Vosika changed the channel, so White shot him dead. He wrapped him in a blanket, bundled the body into the back of a pick up truck and drove into a park. In the back of it was a chainsaw. He was about to start it up when a car pulled up alongside him. In it were a couple and two small children. They asked for directions to get out of the park. White told them and they left. He thought about shooting them all dead but decided not to as he had a task in hand. He dismembered the body of Vosika and scattered the body parts all over.
His next killing was a bicycle repairman, whom he stabbed to death in 1988. He then set fire to the body. Then he decided to rob a motel. He shot the clerk dead, shot a security guard, who luckily survived, and stole just $200. He was arrested by Joe Kenda and arrested for the two murders - the clerk and repairman - and convicted. He was later convicted over the Vosika murder, and Kenda said he was the worst psychopath he had ever countered. White mouthed death threats to the judge and jury when convicted of it.
he was arrested in Pueblo, Co by the police there for the hotel killing, Pueblo police added the murder of his room mate and White confessed to them. Then transported to Joe Kenda. I just listened to Joe Kenda's book that he tells the story in.
ReplyDeletePaul Vosika's mother thinks that this murder was because of an unpaid debt that Paul owed for purchasing drugs. After the murder, the family didn't feel that they wanted to live in their home any longer. They sold it to me. We found bongs and other drug supplies in the back of top shelves in closets, etc. All seems to fit. When they sold us the house, they moved into the house directly across the street that they were renting to their daughter. When they finally completed the new home that they were building, they sold the house across the street. The family that moved in lost their daughter to murder several years later. Their daughter was pushed into Lake San Isabel, in her car, likely by her boyfriend. I don't know the rest of that story.
ReplyDeleteWhat is not mentioned in this article is that when Paul was chopped up into small pieces, he was placed in several boxes and mailed around the state to random addresses. Just another truly morbid act of Ronald Lee White. He killed the desk attendant at a motel north of Pueblo in an execution style shooting. He is truly a sick man. When convicted, he begged for the death penalty. That was granted, and then he very quickly started the appeal process. Great use of taxpayer's money. All of those appeals have kept the death sentence intact, last I heard.
You say he is a psychopath but he is actually a sociopath. A sociopath is made and the other is born. I wonder if he was taking drugs before his back injury or if this was the start of his spiral into drug use from said injury. Could this be another case of oxycontin? He swears this was the start of his decline.
ReplyDeleteHe's still a cold blooded killer, whatever "path" you label him!
ReplyDeleteI went to elementary & high school with Ron L White & he could be quite the charmer yet he got into vicious fights with people & bit off the ear of a classmate during one fight. I remember his father was very abusive with all of his sons but then again they were quite the handful. He was extremely smart & talented. His drawings in school were something he could have sold & made a wonderful living from in a much different life. He continued to draw while in prison. One reporter did quite the story on him & showed his drawings which had progressed to mostly pictures of Christ since he became religious. The drawings were unbelievable. Quite the life wasted.
ReplyDeleteCan youplacw link here. This this really the only useful information on him anywhere. Is he still alive?
DeleteAll the children were abused not just the boys. He's been off death row for quit sometime. He took drugs before his back injury yes.
ReplyDeleteHe's my father's uncle. I never met him personally, but I was told stories by my aunt of him threatening her and my father's bullies. While visiting my great grandmother she showed me cards that he had been making for her. They were unbelievably detailed religious pictures with perfectly drawn handwriting. She did not talk about his crimes while I was there, and she clearly loved him still as the cards were displayed all over the living room.
ReplyDeleteHe's an interesting piece of family history I guess.
I am currently working on a TV show called Homicide Hunter that might be featuring this story for one of our specials. I would love to speak with you about your experience with Ronald White. If that is something you would be willing to do you can email me at arthur.bissieux@jupiterent.com - thanks and hope to hear from you!
DeleteJust following up on this. We're still working on a TV show called Homicide Hunter that will be featuring this story for one of our specials. I would love to speak with you or anybody else who might've known Ronald White. Email me at jerred.hicks@jupiterent.com - thanks and hope to hear from you!
Deletethere was a video error on the show, Homicide Hunter episode Chance encounter, the victim has stab wounds in his chest before he is stabbed, MY MY MY
DeleteHe's the only murder that has caught my attention
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I knew both of them. I worked at the Quality Inn with Paul and his sister. He went missing in the fall of 87 and we all figured it was an account of drugs like he was hiding from the police and had left Pueblo. His sister said that she thought the police were looking for him. I drank with RLW many times at the Quality Inn bar after work. His sister or cousin worked there so he came in often. When the clerk at the Hampton Inn was killed just a couple of buildings down the road from the Quality Inn it was creppy and crazy at working at night. I was graduating all of this started coming to light.
ReplyDeleteHi Dodger,
DeleteI am currently working on a TV show called Homicide Hunter that might be featuring this story for one of our specials. I would love to speak with you about your experience with Ronald White. If that is something you would be willing to do you can email me at arthur.bissieux@jupiterent.com - thanks and hope to hear from you!
there was a video mistake on the show, Homicide Hunter episode Chance encounter, the victim has stab wounds in his chest before he is stabbed, MY MY MY
DeleteI knew both of them. I worked at the Quality Inn with Paul and his sister. He went missing in the fall of 87 and we all figured it was an account of drugs like he was hiding from the police and had left Pueblo. His sister said that she thought the police were looking for him. I drank with RLW many times at the Quality Inn bar after work. His sister or cousin worked there so he came in often. When the clerk at the Hampton Inn was killed just a couple of buildings down the road from the Quality Inn it was creppy and crazy at working at night. I was graduating all of this started coming to light.
ReplyDeleteI knew both of them. I worked at the Quality Inn with Paul and his sister. He went missing in the fall of 87 and we all figured it was an account of drugs like he was hiding from the police and had left Pueblo. His sister said that she thought the police were looking for him. I drank with RLW many times at the Quality Inn bar after work. His sister or cousin worked there so he came in often. When the clerk at the Hampton Inn was killed just a couple of buildings down the road from the Quality Inn it was creppy and crazy at working at night. I was graduating all of this started coming to light.
ReplyDeleteHi Dodger,
DeleteJust following up on this. We're still working on a TV show called Homicide Hunter that will be featuring this story for one of our specials. I would love to speak with you or anybody else who might've known Ronald White. Email me at jerred.hicks@jupiterent.com - thanks and hope to hear from you!
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