Talk:Alton Coleman

Quotes
I see several unsourced quotes in this article. Does whoever included them have a source they can cite?24.131.12.228 03:59, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Debra Brown
I think that this page should not have been redirected from Debra Brown. Although these people committed crimes together, they aren't the same person and need seperate pages... and yes, this page needs citations and references! Naysie 02:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Did Brown ever have her own page? I fully agree that she should not be included with Coleman, especially since she is still alive and going through legal processes.70.225.143.124 (talk) 16:22, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Alton coleman.jpg
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"African-American serial killer" ?
Why is he blandly described as "an African-American serial killer"- when it should be something more apt like "African-American child killing paedophile"?

tali12/10/09 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.195.161.249 (talk) 21:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * He was a child killer, pedophile, and serial killer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.59.61.207 (talk) 03:13, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Pansexual
A prison psychiatrist labeled Alton Coleman as being Pansexual and willing to have sex with anyone or anything, why is this not mentioned in the article? I saw a documentary on TV about Alton Coleman and Debra Brown and they showed the prison psychiatrist's report saying this about him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.59.61.207 (talk) 18:20, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

New Sources
I tried to respond to the issue raised about the referencing of the article. In doing this, I reviewed the Crime Library article, About.com, Murderpedia and the articles quoted therein, the Detroit Free Press, ACLU's clemency letter, and around 49 articles still online at the Chicago Tribune. Nevertheless, this effort has been only partially successful, because so much of the detail in this article seems not to be online. The Robert Carpenter story and the Palmer Jones story appear nowhere. Oddly, the article didn't include a paragraph on the Tonnie Storey murder. On all the crimes, the article includes a wealth of detail not seen in any of the references I could locate (and some detail in actual conflict), sometimes making it difficult to reference the facts I could find references for. If I had to guess, this is all from John Douglas' work. The web location was dead. There is a book, which my library didn't have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.109.90.197 (talk) 00:27, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

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School
If Coleman went to school in Waukegan, he was a junior-high-school (7th-8th grades) or a high-school (9th-12th grades) dropout, not a middle-school dropout. 104.153.40.58 (talk) 03:01, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

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