Anthony John Sully

Serial Killer

Anthony John Sully: The Former Police Officer Who Murdered Six People

From Police Officer to Convicted Serial Killer

Anthony John Sully was an American serial killer and former police officer who murdered six people in the San Francisco Bay Area during 1983. His victims included five women and one man, several of whom were connected to prostitution, escort services or the illegal drug trade. Sully committed the killings in or around an electrical contracting warehouse he operated in Burlingame, California. The warehouse doubled as his residence and became the central location in a series of shootings, beatings, stabbings and acts of torture. Sully had previously served as an officer with the Millbrae Police Department. He joined the department in 1966 and remained in law enforcement for nearly eight years. His police training included fingerprint detection and other investigative techniques. After leaving the department in 1974, he established an electrical contracting business and eventually rented a warehouse in an industrial section of Burlingame. The building appeared to be an ordinary commercial property, but prosecutors later demonstrated that Sully used it to imprison, assault and kill his victims.

Violence Behind the Warehouse Doors

By the early 1980s, Sully had become involved with escort agencies, prostitutes and cocaine users in the Bay Area. He was known to some people in that circle as "Jack." He invested money in an escort business and regularly invited women to his warehouse. Testimony presented at his trial described Sully as controlling and violently abusive. Women who visited the warehouse were reportedly subjected to beatings, sexual violence and threats. Sully did not act entirely alone. Tina Livingston, an escort-service operator, became an important prosecution witness. Keli "Angel" Burns and Michael Anthony Francis were also implicated in portions of the crimes. Livingston later entered a plea agreement and testified about what she had witnessed inside the warehouse. Her testimony was supported by fingerprints, footprints, rope, plastic wrapping, barrels, cigarette evidence and other physical material recovered during the investigation. ...

Confirmed Victims: (6)

Gloria Fravel Age: (24), Date of Death: 1983-02

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