Higgs knew Jackson, and they had arranged dates for Haynes and Gloria with Black and Chinn. Another man, Willis Mark Haynes, was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting the victims. § 1201(a), and three counts of using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, id. The government did not claim he physically killed anyone. He was sentenced to death in connection with the kidnapping and killing of three women in Maryland in 1996. Dates had been arranged for each of the men and women and the … He points to differing sentences between Higgs and his friend, Willis Mark Haynes. The six returned to Higgs’s apartment in Lau- On Jan. 27, 1996, a passing motorist found the bodies of three D.C. women on the side of Route 197 at the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge in Beltsville, Maryland. § 1111(a), three counts of kidnapping, id. Higgs was prosecuted on the theory that he ordered Haynes to do the killings. On the evening of January 26, 1996, Higgs, Willis Haynes and Victor Gloria drove from Higgs' apartment in Laurel, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., to pick up Tamika Black, Tanji Jackson and Mishann Chinn. Higgs was sentenced to death for his role in the 1996 murder of three women in a national park. On Friday evening, January 26, 1996, Higgs, Willie Mark Haynes and Victor Gloria drove from Higgs's apartment at 13801 Briarwood Drive in Laurel, Maryland, to Washington D.C. to pick up [Jackson, Black, and Chinn]. Higgs' journey to death row began in January 1996, when he, Haynes, and another friend Victor Gloria, drove from Washington, DC to Maryland to pick up the women. Higgs knew Jackson and they had arranged dates for Haynes … § 924(c)(1). Following a jury trial, Willis Mark Haynes (Haynes) was convicted of, inter alia, three counts of first-degree murder, 18 U.S.C. On the evening of January 26, 1996, Dustin John Higgs, Willis Mark Haynes, and Victor Gloria traveled to Washington, D.C., and picked up Tanji Jackson, Tamika Black, and Mishann Chinn. On Friday evening, January 26, 1996, Higgs, Willie Mark Haynes and Victor Gloria drove from Higgs's apartment at 13801 Briarwood Drive in Laurel, Maryland, to Washington D.C. to pick up Tanji Jackson, Tamika Black, and Mishann Chinn. The jury heard how Higgs, Willis Mark Haynes, and a third man, Victor Gloria, had picked up the women on January 27 1996 and drove them to Higgs's apartment in Laurel, Maryland. He was sentenced for the kidnapping and killing of three women in Maryland in 1996. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/final-words-death-row-man-23329214 Haynes received concurrent life terms for the first-degree Higgs’ friend, Willis Mark Haynes, was convicted of murder but … Higgs knew Jackson and they had arranged dates for Haynes and Gloria with Black and Chinn. U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte also ordered Willis Mark Haynes to pay restitution to the victims' families for funeral expenses.