Robert Anthony Buell

Robert Anthony Buell
Mugshot taken on October 13, 2000
Born(1940-09-10)September 10, 1940
DiedSeptember 25, 2002(2002-09-25) (aged 62)
Criminal statusExecuted by lethal injection
ConvictionsAggravated murder
Kidnapping (3 counts)
Rape (3 counts)
Felonious sexual penetration (3 counts)
Felonious assault (2 counts)
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims2–3
Span of crimes
1981–1983
CountryUnited States
StateOhio
Date apprehended
1984

Robert Anthony Buell (September 10, 1940 – September 25, 2002) was an American child murderer, serial rapist, and former planning department worker from Akron, Ohio. He was convicted of the July 17, 1982 murder of 11-year-old Krista Lea Harrison.

Buell was executed by lethal injection on September 25, 2002. His final meal was a single black unpitted olive. In 2010, eight years after his death, he was found to have also raped and murdered 12-year-old Tina Marie Harmon in 1981.