Wanda Roberts was killed on November 12, 1980, and is listed among the known victims of Carroll Edward Cole. Reports do not consistently give her precise age or ethnicity. Cole operated across multiple states during the 1970s and early 1980s; his crimes included the murders of several women, often involving strangulation.

Wanda Roberts’s death is described as one of the killings that helped link Cole’s crimes across jurisdictions. After his arrest he confessed to Roberts’s murder and to more than a dozen other killings; those confessions, together with forensic and investigative findings, are reported to have led to multiple murder convictions. Cole was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in Nevada in 1985.

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