Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, June 30, 1960

Mary Lou Rogers says she is in love with sex strangler Donald Kinman. "For 18 months I lived as Don's common-law wife," the comely divorcee said. "I never suspected that he was a sex strangler. A killer. Even though, seven times, he tried to garrote me," Paul Coates says.

Nov. 26, 1959: Donald Kinman is sought in the the 1959 strangulation of Nancy Tardy and the 1958 killing of Fern Reed.He was given two life sentences in June 1960.