The sister of a young Chattanooga woman who was raped and murdered decades ago by a man known as the Red-Headed Stranger is “100% committed to seeing him die and be executed” Dec. 11, Lisette Monroe said by phone.
Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, pleaded guilty in 1990 to first-degree felony murder, aggravated rape and first-degree burglary in connection with Karen Pulley’s death, court records show.
“He needs to pay for what he did,” Monroe said.
On Sept. 30, 1988, Nichols climbed in a window and found Pulley in her bed alone, court records said. He struck her in the head repeatedly with a short piece of lumber, tore her clothes off and raped her.
Pulley, 20, succumbed to her injuries and died the next day.