Facts: - fatalities: 5 - penalty: death - locations: san , united states diego , oakland , los angeles , california - caption: mugshot - birth date: 30 august 1955 - name: dean carter - image size: 135px - birthname: dean phillip carter - image: dean phillip carter.jpg - birth place: nome , alaska - date: 1955 8 30 - occupation: freelance television cameraman Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of dean carter .
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dean phillip carter -lrb- born august 30 , 1955 -rrb- is a convicted spree killer currently housed on san quentin , california 's death row .he has been convicted -lrb- trials -rrb- of the murder of four women : susan knoll , jillette mills , bonnie guthrie , and janette cullins .he was also implicated in the death of tok chum kim .on march 25 , 1984 carter raped a woman who survived his attack .carter was born the illegitimate son of a half-inuit woman in nome , alaska .he was adopted by a former police and fire chief in nome .when he was 12 , carter was declared a delinquent child and committed to a youth camp , from which he attempted to run away at least three times .he later was placed in a foster home .carter 's crimes continued and '' by the time he was 14 or 15 , he was a fairly confirmed burglar . ''he later served adult prison terms in oregon for auto theft and in alaska for burglary .in 1980 , carter was employed by the tanana chiefs conference in fairbanks , alaska .tcc was a federally funded non-profit organization which operated the video center .the video center was a project to provide employment related training to the members of the doyon region of interior alaska .carter worked as a production assistant and cameraman .during his tenure at the video center , carter was on probation for cocaine possession , for which he served 4 years in prison in oregon .carter married the receptionist at the video center and fathered twin sons in 1981 .he worked for ktuu-tv in anchorage , alaska , and later as a free-lance cameraman in seattle in the early 1980s .in one of his letters , carter claims he 's innocent .the california supreme court record of his appeal , however , shows that his latent palm print was found in one of the victim 's homes , and there is an atm video of him emptying out another victim 's bank account .also , a car that he stole from his first murder victim was found a block from another murder victim 's home and then the car of that murder victim was stolen .he...