George Brinkman murders

George Brinkman Jr. (born January 28, 1972) is an American spree killer who murdered five people during a 2017 killing spree. His first victims were Suzanne Taylor, with whom he had been friends since elementary school, and her two daughters, twenty-one-year-old Taylor Pifer and eighteen-year-old Kylie Pifer. On June 10, 2017, Brinkman took the women captive inside their home in North Royalton, Ohio. He killed Suzanne in front of her daughters before killing them as well. Brinkman then went to the Lake Township, Ohio home of seventy-one-year-old Rogell “Gene” John and his sixty-four-year-old wife Roberta “Bobbi” John. Brinkman, who had known the couple for over ten years, shot them both to death. Brinkman pleaded guilty to the North Royalton murders in November 2018 and to the Lake Township murders in October 2019. He was sentenced to death for murdering Suzanne and her daughters in December 2018. In October 2019 he received another death sentence for murdering the Johns. In July 2021, the Ohio Supreme Court vacated Brinkman's convictions and death sentences in the North Royalton cases. The ruling does not impact his convictions and sentences in the Lake Township murders. Brinkman is currently on death row at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution in Chillicothe, Ohio. He is scheduled for execution on September 23, 2026. Suzanne Taylor was from Parma Heights, Ohio. She graduated from Valley Forge High School in 1990 and went on to attend Hiram College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology, sociology, and political science. She worked as an administrator at REO Property Consultants, starting in 2012, and as a real estate appraiser for Forsythe Appraisals, starting in 2013. Suzanne lived in the Cleveland suburb of North Royalton, Ohio, with her two daughters, Kylie Pifer, eighteen, and Taylor Pifer, twenty-one. Taylor Pifer was a 2014 graduate of North Royalton High School and had just completed her junior year at Kent State University. She played softball while in high school and worked at the Kent State Fashion Management Store while in college.