Dale Hausner

Dale Hausner, along with his former roommate Samuel Dieteman, allegedly engaged in a 14-month random shooting spree in the Phoenix metropolitan area from 2005-2006 that left eight people dead and 17 wounded.¹ Hausner has pleaded not guilty to the murders, saying that it is possible Dieteman used his guns and car without his knowledge. However, police maintain that Hausner and Dieteman acted together, switching off shooting and driving. On April 4, 2008, Dieteman pleaded guilty to counts of first-degree murder as part of a plea bargain in which he agreed to testify against Hausner. Hausner is expected to go on trial September 3, 2008 and the trial could last nine months or more.¹ If convicted, Hausner faces the death penalty.

Fast Facts

1. Born: February 4, 1973
2. Children: Two sons, drowned after mother, Karen Hausner, fell asleep at wheel and car plunged into a creek; also a young daughter
3. Profession: Janitor & freelance photographer
4. Hausner took photographs for boxing magazines and was photographed shaking hands with Mike Tyson
5. Hausner's ex-wife, Tracie Hazelett, said that he was mentally abusive and that she was afraid of him
6. In divorce filings, Karen Hausner said Dale had threatened to kill her in the desert outside Phoenix
7. Dieteman and Hausner committed their alleged spree at the same time as the still-at-large serial killer known as the "Baseline Killer"
8. Dieteman and Hausner were known, before their capture, as the "Phoenix Serial Shooter"
9. Seven of the Serial Shooter murder victims:
   1. Tony Mendez, 38
   2. Reginald Reminard, 56
   3. David Estrada, 20
   4. Jose Ortis, 44
   5. Marco Carillo, 28
   6. Claudia Gutierrez-Cruz, 20
   7. Robin Blasnek, 22

Quotes

From police surveillance tapes of Hausner and Dieteman:

1. Hausner: I love shooting people in the back. That's so much fun. That (expletive) old man I shot in the back.
2. Dieteman: My favorite thing is when someone is walking away and giving him a couple of seconds to aim without them looking. I get so paranoid when someone is walking toward you.

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