A Las Vegas judge on Thursday vacated the death penalty for a Vietnam War veteran who raped and killed a 68-year-old woman more than 10 years ago.
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A man who sexually assaulted and killed a 7-year-old girl more than two decades ago was back in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday.
Nearly 34 years after Nancy Menke was raped and murdered, Scotty Sloan admitted his guilt for the first time to the Nevada Parole Board, which granted his release. He is scheduled to walk free in less than a month.
After waiting more than two decades for an arrest in her older sister’s killing, Marie Ann Iverson Coker’s first instinct was to look up the suspect’s social media accounts. “I have waited almost 21 years. I needed to see the last person she saw,” Coker said.
A former Metropolitan Police Department officer previously convicted of abusing his badge for sex admitted involvement in a 1997 sexual encounter and shooting that left a woman dead, according to court documents obtained Friday.
Bryan Clay was formally sentenced Thursday on charges related to the murders of Ignacia “Yadira” Martinez, 38, and her 10-year-old daughter, Karla. Clay alluded to an appeal, telling District Judge Douglas Herndon, “We’re not done yet. It’s not complete.”
A former Las Vegas police officer accused of raping and killing a woman more than 20 years ago was ordered held without bail Monday.
