David Lee Myers has been on Ohio’s Death Row since 1996, awaiting execution for one of the most gruesome killings that anyone in Xenia, Ohio, can recall: A railroad spike had been jammed through a young woman’s skull, and rocks, which had been used to violate her sexually, had been left inside her body.
People around town say the shocking 1988 demise of Amanda Jo Maher, 18, is still referred to as “The Spike Murder,” almost like an urban legend; some say they are surprised that her convicted killer hasn’t been put to death yet.
