Norman Flowers

He was scheduled to head to trial for the murders of Coote and Gonzalez. In June 2011 Flowers entered an Alford plea, which allowed him to admit prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him without him having to confess. In August 2011, he was imposed two more life sentences. He is currently serving his sentence at High Desert State Prison in Clark County, Nevada.

Flowers went to trial for the murder of Sheila Quarles in 2008, Prosecutors sought the death penalty against him. In October 2008, the jury found him guilty of Sheila's murder. In the sentencing phase of the trial Flowers' mother Eleanor pleaded for the jury to not sentence him to death and argued that the son she knew was a caring, loyal young man. The jury dismissed the death sentence afterwards, and instead sentenced Flowers to life imprisonment without parole.

Over the span of 41 days in early 2005, Flowers burglarized three Las Vegas apartments and attacked the occupants, all of whom were women. He would then excessively beat and rape them, then afterwards strangle them to death. He had connections to all of his victims through his two girlfriends.

In 2004, Flowers met Debra Quarles, who he formed a relationship with. From there he met Quarles daughter, Sheila, 18. He fathered a boy around this same time. They did however break up at some point. On March 24, 2005, Sheila stayed home from her job at a Starbucks, while Debra left for her job. Sometime during that day, Flowers let himself into the apartment and attacked Sheila in the apartment bathroom. He beat, raped, and strangled her to death. He left her body face up in the bathtub which was full of hot water. He then took her cell phone, bankcard, and jewelry. Flowers left the apartment, and Debra found the body later that day. Police collected male DNA found in Sheila's vaginal area. In the weeks following, Flowers comforted Debra in the wake of her daughter's murder and recommended her to take counseling. Flowers started dating another woman, Mawusi Ragland.

With the help of DNA, Flowers was arrested on June 6, 2005, and charged with the murder of Marilee Coote. After his arrest, the string of murders suddenly stopped, and Flowers became the prime suspect in the two other murder cases, and, with DNA testing, he was linked to them and was charged. DNA belonging to a second man was found on Sheila's body, but it was later found to have matched a man named George Brass who came forward and stated that he was a friend of Sheila and that the sex was consensual.

Norman Keith Flowers (born March 15, 1974) is an American serial killer who killed three women by beating and strangling them in their Las Vegas apartments in early 2005. DNA left at each crime scene eventually linked him to the killings and he was arrested. Flowers was tried in 2008 and convicted, receiving a life sentence without parole. He entered an alford plea for the remaining charges in 2011 and received a two more life sentences.

Flowers was born on March 15, 1974, and raised in a dysfunctional family in Compton, California, an area known for poverty and violence. He experienced physical and sexual abuse and was once abandoned. In 1993, Flowers was convicted of burglary, robbery, and an arson-fire that killed a dog. In 1999 he was convicted of the unlawful use of a deadly weapon and burglary, crimes for which he was later released for in 2003.