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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Baltimore woman who survived her father’s vicious attack as an infant. 43 years later, she wasn’t so lucky</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Lawrence Banks continued his long history of brutalizing and even killing family members</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">He is accused of the murder and dismemberment of his daughter in May</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Dominique Foster was murdered and her body desecrated by her her father 43 years after he threw her through a glass door as a 7-month-old baby, police said</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Foster&#8217;s body parts were found in thrash bags beside a dumpster on Mother&#8217;s Day, May 12</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Banks killed his 17-year old son, Lawrence Banks Jr, back in 1991</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">That same day, he gunned down a friend, Michael Chisholm, but served only a decade in prison after being awarded “good time credits</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">He was also believed to have murdered his wife, Vivian Banks in 1975</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">He couldn&#8217;t be prosecuted because the body was badly decomposed when it was found, destroying evidence</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Dominique Foster&#8217;s daughter tipped off cops that her grandfather killed her mom, just as he had killed her grandmother decades earlier</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Caller also claimed the her mother was in a relationship with her own father and the pair had been living together</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Banks who has never been charged with the murder of his wife, is been held without bond in the death and dismemberment of his daughter</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">A a neighbor who heard some arguing on the night of May 10 from the apt shared by the pair accused of being in an incestuous relationship</span></strong></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><strong><span style="color: #292121;">Security camera footage from that day showed a man with a limp in white jacket and hoodie wheeling a shopping cart toward the lot where Foster body parts was found</span> </strong></h6>
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<h6 class="align-center">i<img class="alignnone wp-image-322976" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Lawrence-Banks-2.jpg" alt="Lawrence Banks 2.jpg" width="686" height="915" />Is he a serial killer? <strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Lawrence Banks continued his long history of brutalizing and even killing family members when he murdered his daughter and dismembered her body in May, police charge. He is being held without bond</span></strong></h6>
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<div class=""><span style="color: var(--color-text);">A Baltimore man with a history of violence and deception, according to court documents, has been charged with death and dismemberment of his 43-year-old married daughter. the pair allegedly were also in a sexual relationship, the victim&#8217;s daughter told police.</span></div>
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<p data-page="1">Records show that when Dominique Foster was just 7-months-old, her father threw her through a glass door.<br />
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<span style="color: var(--color-text);">43 years later, Baltimore Police have again arrested her father, Lawrence Banks, and this time they’ve charged him with her murder.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Foster, a mother of six, was discovered on May 12, </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">her dismembered body hidden in garbage</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> outside a dumpster in Northwest Baltimore. Her head, hands, feet, and lower legs were all missing and have not been recovered, police said.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">She was identified only after the department </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">released photos of her tattoos</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> that were later recognized by family members.<br />
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</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Banks remains at the city jail, where he has been since being charged with illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition in late May.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">During a search of his apartment on May 29, police found blood and a gun. They didn’t charge him with the killing then, but the police documents hinted that more charges would come.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The murder charges have brought relief to family members, who say they feared Banks, now 65.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">He was previously convicted of killing his son and a friend, and has been questioned in the deaths of several family members deaths over the last 40 years. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">They say they long-predicted Foster’s grim fate: </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">&#8220;Dominique knew if she left this world, it would be by her dad,” her husband, Willie Foster said. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Banks killed his 17-year old son back in 1991. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">That same day, he gunned down a friend, but served only a decade in prison after being awarded “good time credits,&#8221; court records show.</span></p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-322962" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Dominique-Foster-2.jpg" alt="Dominique Foster 2" width="761" height="575" /><strong>Victim: Dominique Foster was murdered and her body desecrated by her her father 43 years after he threw her through a glass door as a 7-month-old baby, police said</strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Before the unveiling of the new murder charges, court documents in the firearms case show investigators had suspected Banks since the May 29 search of his apartment. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Those documents detailed their investigation into Foster’s death. They said officers interviewed a neighbor who heard some arguing on the night of May 10. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);"><br />
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<script src="//z-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/onejs?MarketPlace=US"></script>A security camera video from that day obtained by police showed a man with a limp in a white jacket and hoodie wheeling a shopping cart toward the lot where Foster was found. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“The team of detectives that worked on this case were simply relentless. There’s no substitute for solid detective work, which is exactly what led to an arrest,&#8221; Homicide Major Christopher Jones said in a statement.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The department declined to discuss the case further. The statement of probable cause was not yet publicly available. Banks did not have an attorney listed in online court records. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“Dominique knew if she left this world, it would be by her dad,” said Willie Foster who called Banks a “monster” who long traumatized his wife. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">T</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">hrough their 19 years of marriage Willie Foster said, his wife kept her family away from Banks. Foster and his wife moved to North Carolina about 15 years ago but in the past year she moved to Baltimore to live with her sister.</span></p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-322963" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Dominique-Fosters-remains-3.jpg" alt="Dominique Foster's remains 3" width="768" height="448" /><strong>Dominique Foster, <span style="color: var(--color-text);">a mother of six, was discovered on May 12, </span>her dismembered body hidden in garbage<span style="color: var(--color-text);"> outside a dumpster in Northwest Baltimore, Maryland</span></strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">In recent months, Willie Foster said his wife began to reconnect with her father even though she kept her family at a distance from him after being abused by him as a child. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">According to Foster and court records, Dominique Foster had been abused physically and sexually by her father. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">In the gun case, Baltimore Police homicide detectives said Banks had a sexual relationship with his daughter. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Police said Foster had been staying with Banks at his apartment at 4001 Clarks Lane in the Glen neighborhood, around the corner from where her body was found. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">At a bail review hearing last month in the gun case, he attempted to tell the district court judge that the gun was not his. A public defender argued for leniency on his behalf and told the judge that Banks is a father of six with a master’s degree from Towson University. However, contradicting the defense argument, the college said they had no record Banks was ever a student there. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Banks was also described as a member of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Northwest Baltimore, but Leroy Davis, a trustee at the church on Garrison Boulevard, said the church had no record of a member by that name. Members of he congregation have no recollection of him attending services either.</span></p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-322965" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Tattoo-on-Dominique-Foster-4.jpg" alt="Tattoo on Dominique Foster 4" width="766" height="426" /><strong>The victim was identified by a family member after police released photo of his tattoo of lips on the dismembered body</strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">The defense represented that their client volunteered at The Baltimore Station, a shelter for veterans, which remains uncorroborated. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Banks told the investigator he liked to read and travel. He admitted to a temper but told the investigator, “I have a pretty good personality&#8221; but that he didn’t like violence. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">But court records show a history of violent charges. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Banks has had a history of violence and deception, according to court documents. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“He is not at all the person that he presents himself to be. He lies smoothly and talks smoothly. He is quite skilled at misrepresenting himself,” a pre-sentencing investigator wrote in 1976 after the assault of his infant daughter. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Dominique Foster was just a baby when a few days after Christmas 1975, Banks was drunk and got into an argument with his then-wife Vivian Banks, at his mother’s house in East Baltimore. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">He threatened he was “going to do something to this baby you’ll both regret,” and then the women heard a loud crash. </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Vivian Banks then rushed her young daughter to the hospital where she received two dozen stitches on her head, the report said. One of Dominique Foster’s daughters who chose to remain anonymous, citing safety concerns, said the baby was her mother.<br />
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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Banks was charged with assault in that case. But while he was on bail awaiting trial, police found the body of his wife Vivian Banks in a closet of an East Baltimore apartment she had been renting.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">He had previously be charged with assault and intent to murder Vivian Banks after police said he held an 8-inch steak knife to her throat, but she subsequently asked that the charges be dropped against him.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Court documents in several criminal proceedings against Banks show that though detectives believed he killed his wife, because her body had been badly decomposing, the medical examiner could not determine a cause of death.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Banks was sentenced to 15 years for the assault against his baby daughter. He was released in 1988.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Four years later, Banks had been drinking with two friends in Pasadena when he shot and killed one, Michael Chisholm. That same day in 1991, prosecutors said he drove to Baltimore and shot and killed his 17-year old son, Lawrence Jr., at his foster home on Northern Parkway.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Police said at the time that Banks killed his son because he was angry that the son and daughter, Dominique Foster, reported that their father had severely beaten them on multiple occasions.</span></p>
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<h6 data-page="2"><img class="alignnone wp-image-322961" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Dominique-Foster-1.jpg" alt="Dominique Foster 1" width="918" height="473" /><strong>As a child in the early 1990s, D<span style="color: var(--color-text);">ominique Foster had reported that her father had raped her while he was drunk</span></strong></h6>
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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Dominique Foster also reported that her father had raped her while he was drunk.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">After her brother was killed, Foster told investigators she lived in fear that her father might kill her as well &#8211; she told investigators her father occasionally would come to her school and “threaten with meeting the same fate as her mother.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">After pleading guilty to the Chisholm murder and no contest to the murder of Lawrence Jr., he was handed a 20-year concurrent sentence.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">On his release in 2002, Banks changed his name to Malik Samartaney, remarried and moved to Laurel, but his wave of domestic terror continue.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">His new wife filed three protective orders against him, and in 2004 Banks was charged with assault in Anne Arundel County for choking and threatening to kill her.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Banks allegedly told his then-wife, “I must kill you,&#8221; held a knife to her throat and threatened to dump her body in the Patuxent River.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">After nine months remanded in jail awaiting trial he w acquitted by a jury.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">By 2006, Banks separated from his wife and moved in with another woman and her daughter, Lisa Laverne Brown, 22 and Brown’s daughter Labria.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Months later on Dec. 12, 2006, police said Brown and her daughter were fatally shot.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Prince George&#8217;s County police questioned Banks, and asked Banks&#8217; parole agent to find violations that could keep him behind bars as they built a case.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">He was never charged and the cases remain open.</span></p>
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Baltimore man Lawrence Banks, 65, who killed his son 24 years ago, charged with the murder and dismemberment of his daughter – Dominique Foster survived her father’s vicious attack as an infant, 43 years later, he butchered her
