In recordings of Scott Dozier’s recent phone calls, made public this month through court exhibits, he tells friends and family he is tired of life, and he envisions his path to the execution chamber.
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Brandy Stutzman helped ditch the killer’s bloody clothes, sent text messages to her husband, knowing he was dead, then feigned surprise when she found his body in his northern valley home, prosecutors said during closing arguments Friday.
Jeremiah Merriweather, who has confessed to the Nov. 2010 killing of 32-year-old Joe Stutzman, testified as a key prosecution witness Wednesday in Brandy Stutzman’s death penalty trial. Should a jury find her guilty and decide on capital punishment, Stutzman would be the only woman on death row in Nevada.
Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against a 23-year-old man charged in the beating death of his young daughter.
Brandy Stutzman faces the death penalty for the slaying of her husband. If a jury decides on capital punishment, she would be the only woman on death row in Nevada.
A 17-year-old appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court on Friday to face a murder charge in the shooting that killed former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson.
A man accused of killing an elderly woman in her home over the summer lived with one of the housekeepers who discovered the victim’s body.
A man who had been facing the death penalty for killing his girlfriend and engaging in an hours-long standoff with police pleaded guilty Wednesday as a jury was being selected for his trial.
A prominent Las Vegas lawyer on Wednesday took on the case of Kirstin Lobato, a woman serving a lengthy prison sentence for a killing she claims she did not commit.