Rick Scott Signs Death Warrant for Oba Chandler

Gov. Rick Scott has signed the death warrant for Oba Chandler, convicted of murdering a woman and her two daughters who were vacationing in Tampa from Ohio in 1989.

The order is for Chandler to be put to death on Nov. 15.

Chandler, 65, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of Joan Rogers and her two daughters, Michelle and Christe, on June 1, 1989.

Rogers car was found abandoned beside a boat ramp off the Courtney Campbell Causeway.Inside the car they found a brochure with directions on it, parts of which were written in Oba Chandlers handwriting. Chandlers fingerprints were also lifted from the brochure.

The tied bodies of all three women were found in Tampa Bay, and a cinder block was tied by a rope around their necks. Medical examiners determined the cause of death of all three women to be asphyxiation from the ropes around their necks or from drowning.

This is Scotts second death warrant. Convicted cop killer Manuel Valle was executed Sept. 28.