Post by sclcookie on May 29, 2006 1:19:36 GMT -5
Couple surrender in videotaped rape-killing
A couple accused of videotaping the rape of an Independence woman and
killing her were in custody Thursday night after spending several days on
the run, Jackson County prosecutors said.
Richard Davis, 41, and Dena Riley, 39, had a 5-year-old girl with them
when they turned themselves in earlier in the day, said Jeff Lanza, an FBI
spokesman in Kansas City, Missouri.
"We believe this girl was taken from her home in Pittsburg, Kansas, and
the FBI is investigating this as a kidnapping case," he told The
Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Pittsburg, in southeast Kansas, is less than 20 miles from Lamar,
Missouri, where Davis and Riley turned themselves in.
Lanza said authorities were trying to determine any possible relationship
between the girl and the couple. He also said authorities would try to
determine whether she was a victim of a sex crime.
Davis and Riley each were charged Monday with 1st-degree murder,
1st-degree assault, kidnapping, forcible rape and 2 counts of forcible
sodomy in the death of Marsha Spicer. Her naked body was found May 15 in a
shallow grave near Bates City, east of Kansas City.
Police interviewed the couple last week, but they fled soon after, before
authorities obtained a search warrant and found the videotape.
Police said a video found on a TV stand in the couple's apartment shows
Spicer, 41, with duct tape over her eyes and her hands behind her back.
She is beaten, raped and sodomized as she pleads for the attack to stop,
police said.
The room portrayed on the tape matches their bedroom, police said, and
detectives noted the couple had a camcorder aimed at their bed when
officers interviewed them. Officers also say a notebook at the home made
references to "sexual desires," "choking," "chasing" and "victims."
Several family members and friends of the suspects have told detectives
the couple had hopes of carrying out similar acts on others, but police
say they're unsure how valid those claims are.
Jackson County Prosecutor Mike Sanders said his office would review the
case and decide whether to pursue the death penalty.
Spicer's sister, Jackie Schumacher, called Davis and Riley "demented
perverts that shouldn't live."
"Nobody should do what they did to Marsha or anybody else," said
Schumacher, of Blue Springs. "People don't deserve to be treated the way
that she was treated. I haven't seen the tape. I don't want to see the
tape, but I've heard -- and nobody, nobody should be treated the way she
was treated."
Sanders expected the couple to be returned to Independence by Friday.
After the couple fled, the Missouri State Highway Patrol had followed them
to Perryville, a town south of St. Louis where they interviewed a woman
Sunday about their disappearance. Authorities say they later learned the
couple had been hiding in the back room of the woman's apartment and
escaped after officers left. The woman, Susan Summers, has been charged
with 2 counts of hindering prosecution.
(source: Associated Press)
A couple accused of videotaping the rape of an Independence woman and
killing her were in custody Thursday night after spending several days on
the run, Jackson County prosecutors said.
Richard Davis, 41, and Dena Riley, 39, had a 5-year-old girl with them
when they turned themselves in earlier in the day, said Jeff Lanza, an FBI
spokesman in Kansas City, Missouri.
"We believe this girl was taken from her home in Pittsburg, Kansas, and
the FBI is investigating this as a kidnapping case," he told The
Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Pittsburg, in southeast Kansas, is less than 20 miles from Lamar,
Missouri, where Davis and Riley turned themselves in.
Lanza said authorities were trying to determine any possible relationship
between the girl and the couple. He also said authorities would try to
determine whether she was a victim of a sex crime.
Davis and Riley each were charged Monday with 1st-degree murder,
1st-degree assault, kidnapping, forcible rape and 2 counts of forcible
sodomy in the death of Marsha Spicer. Her naked body was found May 15 in a
shallow grave near Bates City, east of Kansas City.
Police interviewed the couple last week, but they fled soon after, before
authorities obtained a search warrant and found the videotape.
Police said a video found on a TV stand in the couple's apartment shows
Spicer, 41, with duct tape over her eyes and her hands behind her back.
She is beaten, raped and sodomized as she pleads for the attack to stop,
police said.
The room portrayed on the tape matches their bedroom, police said, and
detectives noted the couple had a camcorder aimed at their bed when
officers interviewed them. Officers also say a notebook at the home made
references to "sexual desires," "choking," "chasing" and "victims."
Several family members and friends of the suspects have told detectives
the couple had hopes of carrying out similar acts on others, but police
say they're unsure how valid those claims are.
Jackson County Prosecutor Mike Sanders said his office would review the
case and decide whether to pursue the death penalty.
Spicer's sister, Jackie Schumacher, called Davis and Riley "demented
perverts that shouldn't live."
"Nobody should do what they did to Marsha or anybody else," said
Schumacher, of Blue Springs. "People don't deserve to be treated the way
that she was treated. I haven't seen the tape. I don't want to see the
tape, but I've heard -- and nobody, nobody should be treated the way she
was treated."
Sanders expected the couple to be returned to Independence by Friday.
After the couple fled, the Missouri State Highway Patrol had followed them
to Perryville, a town south of St. Louis where they interviewed a woman
Sunday about their disappearance. Authorities say they later learned the
couple had been hiding in the back room of the woman's apartment and
escaped after officers left. The woman, Susan Summers, has been charged
with 2 counts of hindering prosecution.
(source: Associated Press)