Prosecutor Walsh is asking for your support
to keep Willie Lagway in prison

Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh is asking for your help to keep Willie Lagway (Criminal Case No. 83-02-0232) in prison. Lagway robbed six Summit County women and raped two of them. The Ohio Parole Board is considering Lagway's release at a parole board hearing on February 22.

Please send letters to:
Ohio Parole Board
770 West Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43222

Please include Lagway's name and Inmate Number A173689 on each page of correspondence.

You can also sign an online petition sponsored by one of Lagway’s victims at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/keeplagwayinjail/. We still encourage letters!

Background: In February 1983, this inmate went on a five-day crime spree victimizing six women in Summit County. Lagway kidnapped his victims from various locations in Summit County, including the parking decks at area hospitals.  All of the victims were robbed and two were raped. Lagway was armed with a knife that he used to threaten the first four victims with their lives if they did not comply with his demands.  In his last abduction of two women who were together, he told them he had a gun. Lagway did not just commit these crimes and leave.  He terrorized these women for hours, looking at their drivers’ licenses to get their addresses, and asking them other personal information. 

Lagway was tried and convicted in 1983 by a jury. The case was overturned on appeal and all six victims went through a second trial in 1993. Again, a jury convicted Lagway.  For his crimes, the sentencing Judge gave Lagway the maximum possible sentence of 109 to 375 years in prison.

Thank you for your helping us with our efforts to keep Lagway in prison!