Offender Record · OFF-2026-006
Dale Anderson (photo from the Radford University biography)
Dale Anderson
Sex
Male
Race
White
Born
1951
Custody
Deceased
States
IL, MO, OH
Custody
Deceased at Pontiac Correctional Center
Custody record at the facility
He died June 6, 2023 at the prison.
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Summary of the record
Dale Anderson was convicted in the circuit court of St. Clair County of the murders of Jolaine and Kenneth Lanman. The State's theory was that Anderson committed these murders with the intent of framing Charlotte Kroupa, Bob DeLaria, and Maurice Vale, his former supervisors at the Illinois Department of Public Aid (IDEA), against whom he had a grudge. Defendant was found guilty of both counts of murder and sentenced to a term of natural life. Dale Anderson was serving his life sentence at the Pontiac Correctional Centre in Pontiac until his death in June, 2023.
Documented Arrests, Charges and Convictions
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Offense date Sep 27, 1989, Belleville, Illinois
First Degree Murder
St. Clair County Sheriff's Department, Belleville Police Department · Circuit Court of St. Clair County, Illinois · Docket 89-CF-783 · Arrested Sep 29, 1989 · Convicted Convicted · Sentence: Natural life imprisonment without parole
Anderson entered the home of John and Jolaine Lanman, posing as a possible buyer of their house. When he left, 34-year-old Jolaine Lanman and her 3-year-old son, Kenneth, were dead. Dr. Raj Nanduri completed the autopsies on Jolaine and Kenneth Lanman and determined the cause of death for both to be blunt force trauma to the head and stab wounds to the neck.
SourcesPeople v. Anderson, 604 N.E.2d 546, 237 Ill.App.3d 621, 178 Ill.Dec. 290 (Ill. App. 1992); Dale Anderson, imprisoned for notorious Metro East murders, has died at 71; Belleville Serial Killer?
Places Lived, Worked and Frequented
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IL
Galesburg, Illinois
approx. 1952 – Jun 1952
Galesburg, Illinois
1965 – 1969 · Galesburg High School and Belleville West High School
Normal, Illinois
approx. 1969 – 1974 · Illinois State University
Belleville, Illinois
approx. 1971 – 1973 · Peabody coal mine, summer work during college breaks
Belleville, Illinois
1973 – 1989
Belleville, Illinois
approx. 1977 – 1977 · Allstate Insurance Company, claims adjuster
Belleville, Illinois
approx. 1978 – 1978 · Another insurance agency
Belleville, Illinois
approx. 1978 – 1979 · St. Clair County Jail, sheriff's deputy under federal program
Belleville, Illinois
approx. 1980 – 1988 · Illinois Department of Public Aid, case worker
Belleville, Illinois
Sep 29, 1989 – Sep 29, 1989 · Arrested for Lanman murders
Pontiac, Illinois
Apr 17, 1990 – Jun 06, 2023 · Pontiac Correctional Center, sentenced to natural life imprisonment
MO
Belleville, Missouri
approx. Jun 1952 – 1969
OH
Canton, Ohio
approx. 1951 – 1952
Photographs by Year
Patricia Allanson (photo from the Radford University biography)
Ferguson Police Chief Tory Doyle poses for a portrait on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at St. Louis Public Radio in Grand Center. Doyle spoke on St. Louis on the Air.
Dale Anderson (photo from the Radford University biography)
Timeline
Nov 24, 1951
Dale was born November 24, 1951.
1952
Family moved to Galesburg, Illinois, then Belleville, Missouri.
1978
Anderson attacked his mother, grabbing her by the throat; he worked summer job at Peabody coal mine.
Jun 19, 1988
Audrey Cardenas (WF, 24) killed.
Jul 13, 1988
Anderson was charged with disorderly conduct and impersonating a police officer.
Dec 1988
Anderson was convicted of one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.
Sep 27, 1989
On September 27th, 1989 the bodies of pregnant Jolaine Lanman and her three-year-old son Kenneth were found in their home in Belleville.
Sep 29, 1989
Dale Anderson was arrested for the Lanman murders.
Apr 17, 1990
Dale Anderson was convicted of the Lanman murders on April 17th, 1990. Defendant was found guilty of both counts of murder and sentenced to a term of natural life.
Dec 02, 1992
Appellate Court of Illinois affirmed Anderson's conviction.
Jun 06, 2023
He died June 6, 2023 at the prison.
Sources
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Other · Murderpedia ·
Dale R. Anderson“According to ex-FBI wiz Robert Ressler, 'sexual psychopath' Dale R. Anderson, imprisoned for one of the most brutal slayings in Belleville history, likely killed newspaper intern Audrey Cardenas and four other women.”
News report · The Yard: Crime Blog ·
Serial Killer: Dale Anderson“Dale Anderson was convicted of the Lanman murders on April 17th, 1990. He was sentenced to life in prison.”
News report · St. Louis Public Radio ·
Dale Anderson, imprisoned for notorious Metro East murders, has died at 71“Anderson, who denied killing Jolaine Lanman and her son Kenneth, died Tuesday at the Pontiac Correctional Center in Pontiac, Illinois.”
News report · The Midwest Crime Files ·
Belleville Serial Killer?“Gregory Bowman had been convicted for the murders of Elizabeth West and Ruth Ann Jany and sentenced to two life sentences in 1979. However, twenty years after his arrest the convictions were overturned.”
Other · Radford University, Department of Psychology ·
Radford University serial killer biography: Anderson, Dale“Anderson was convicted of two counts of first degree murder for killing the Lanmans. He was spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.”
Court record · Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District ·
People v. Anderson, 604 N.E.2d 546, 237 Ill.App.3d 621, 178 Ill.Dec. 290 (Ill. App. 1992)“Dale Anderson was convicted in the circuit court of St. Clair County of the murders of Jolaine and Kenneth Lanman.”
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