"I hope hell finds you fast."ĭominique, with sparse, gray hair clipped close to the scalp and dressed in a white jumpsuit, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a deal to avoid the death penalty.ĭominique held a variety of low-paying jobs and police said he lured his victims with the promise of sex in exchange for money, or by showing them a picture of an attractive woman, supposedly his wife, and saying he wanted them to have sex with her. "I'll miss him to the day I die," a sobbing Chris Cunningham testified about his brother, Kurt Cunningham, one of Dominique's victims. At the time, authorities said he confessed to raping about two dozen young men in four Louisiana parishes, then strangling or suffocating them. "He knew nothing about them or their families and he callously killed the victims and left a lifetime of pain as their legacy."ĭominique - from Bayou Blue, a small Cajun settlement about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans - was arrested in December 2006.
"The lives of eight young men were taken from these families by the actions of the defendant," Assistant District Attorney Mark Rhodes said before sentencing. Ronald Dominique, 44, shackled at the waist and feet, stood hunched over with his head bowed as state District Judge Randy Bethancourt read the sentences and names of the eight young men he raped and killed in the quiet bayou country of Terrebonne Parish during a decade-long spree. Victims' relatives sobbed in court Tuesday as a serial killer pleaded guilty to eight slayings and was sentenced to eight consecutive life terms in prison.