Who is Charles Albright aka the Eyeball killer and when was he caught by rookie police officer Regina Smith?
CHARLES Albright was a suspected serial killer known as the Eyeball killer, who was caught by rookie police officer Regina Smith.
His terrifying murder spree will be dramatized in the Lifetime movie Searching for a Serial Killer: The Regina Smith Story.
Troubled upbringing
Albright was born in Amarillo, Texas, on August 10, 1933, and was adopted from an orphanage by Delle and Fred Albright.
By age 13, he had skipped two school grades and was a petty thief.
That same year, he was arrested for aggravated assault.
By the age of fifteen, he graduated from high school and enrolled at North Texas University where he showed an interest in becoming a doctor.
However, Albright’s academic career was put on pause for a year when he was arrested at the age of 16 for the possession of some stolen cash, a rifle and two handguns.
After his release, he attended Arkansas State Teachers College but was later expelled, because he was found with stolen possessions.
Albright falsified a degree and married his college girlfriend in 1965, with the couple going on to have a daughter.
However, they divorced in 1974.
In 1981, he sexually assaulted the 14-year-old daughter of one of his friends.
Although he later pleaded guilty to this, Albright said that he only did so to avoid a “hassle”.
Years later, Regina opened up about why she was so determined to catch Albright.
She told A&E that she wanted to “give the families closure” and that it was important for her to “find the eyeballs”.
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She was unable to ask Albright in person where the eyeballs were, because he was in the prison hospice by the time that she retired.
Albright died on August 22, 2020, at the age of 87, after being imprisoned since 1991.
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