Arizona Death Row Inmates

Daniel W. Cook - Cook, John Matzke, and Carlos Froyan Cruz-Ramos worked at a restaurant in Lake Havasu City and shared an apartment. On July 19, 1987, Cook stole some money from Cruz-Ramos. When Cruz-Ramos began searching the apartment for the money, Cook and Matzke tied Cruz-Ramos to a chai…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Charles D. Ellison - On February 24, 1999, Charles Ellison and Richard Finch broke into the home of Joseph and Lillian Boucher. Ellison and Finch bound the Bouchers with telephone cords and masking tape. Ellison suffocated Joseph Boucher to death with a pillow. While Ellison struggled with J…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Tracy A. Hampton - According to the Phoenix Police Department on May 18, 2001 the defendant shot and killed Charles Findley and Tanya Ramsdell at 802 East Roberts Road in Phoenix. It was also noted that Tanya Ramsdell was five months pregnant at the time of the shooting. No other case inform…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Leroy McGill - On July 13, 2002, Leroy Dean McGill walked into an apartment in north Phoenix carrying a cup full of gasoline. McGill doused Charles Perez and Nova Banta with the gasoline and lit them on fire. Perez subsequently died from his burns. Banta was so severely burned that treating …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Julius J. Moore - No crime information available for this inmate.

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Michael J. Murdaugh - Murdaugh' s girlfriend, Rebecca Rohrs, met the victim, David Reynolds, at a bar. Rebecca told Murdaugh about Reynolds. Murdaugh told Rebecca to entice Reynolds to her house. When Reynolds arrived, Murdaugh and his friend, Jesse Dezarn, took Reynolds to a barn at gunpoin…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Robert W. Murray - On May 11, 1991, Robert and Roger Murray spent the night in Las Vegas, Nevada, and bought a .12 gauge shotgun. The following day, the Murrays drove to Kingman. During the night of May 14, 1991, they decided to rob someone. While driving through Grasshopper Junction, which …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Darrel P. Pandeli - Pandeli killed Holly Iler after what he claimed was an abortive sexual encounter. He slit her throat and mutilated her body. After being captured and interrogated for that murder, he confessed to killing Holly Humphreys more than a year before the Iler murder. He was trie…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Robert A. Poyson - Leta Kagen (30), Leta's 15-year-old son, Robert Delahunt, Roland Wear (50) and Bobby Poyson (20) lived in a remote area of Mohave County. On August 13, 1996, Frank Anderson (48) and Kimberly Lane (15) had been hitchhiking in the area, and Leta agreed to let Anderson and La…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

David M. Ramirez - During the early morning hours of May 25, 1989, David Ramirez, a parolee, murdered Mary Gortarez and her 15-year-old daughter, Candie Gortarez, in their Phoenix apartment. He stabbed Mary 18 times in the neck, in the back, in the stomach, and in the left eye. He stabbed Ca…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Pete C. Rogovich - On March 15, 1992, Rogovich robbed a Super Stop Food Mart and shot and killed the clerk. He later went to the Palo Verde Trailer Park where he encountered Phyllis Mancuso and shot and killed her. He entered the home of Marie Pendergast, where he shot and killed her. After …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Alfonso R. Salazar - On July 25, 1986, Salazar and Michael Davis pulled the wrought iron bars from a window and entered the Tucson home of Sarah Kaplan. Ms. Kaplan was 83 years old, weighed less than 90 pounds, was 5 feet tall, and wore a patch on one eye. Salazar and Davis beat her and stra…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Ronald D. Schackart - Schackart and Charla Regan had known each other since high school and they continued to be friends at the University of Arizona. On March 8, 1984, Schackart told Regan he needed a place to stay since his parents had kicked him out of their house. He also told her he nee…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Eldon M. Schurz - On December 2, 1989, codefendants Eldon Michael Schurz and Patrick Delmar Allison attempted to rob Jonathan Art Bahe of money and liquor at the City Center Motel, located at 600 West Van Buren. Mr. Bahe resisted, so Schurz struck the victim several times about the face and …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Richard D. Stokley - On July 8, 1991, Stokley and Randy Brazeal kidnapped two 13-year-old girls near Elfrida in Cochise County and took them to a remote area, where they raped them. Fearing the consequences, they agreed to kill the girls, and each man strangled one of the girls. To ensure th…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Clarence W. Dixon - On January 7, 1978, 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin was found raped, strangled, and stabbed to death at her Tempe apartment. The killer was never found and the murder became a cold-case for many years. Tempe Detective Tom Magazzeni opened up thi…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Leroy D. Cropper - On March 7, 1997, Cropper murdered Arizona Department of Corrections Officer Brent W. Lumley, stabbing him in the throat. The murder took place at the Arizona Department of Corrections Perryville/San Juan Unit, where Cropper was an inmate. Cropper committed the murder in r…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Kevin A. Miles - On December 7, 1992, Miles and two 16-year-old companions planned a carjacking and discussed killing someone. At 1:30 p.m. that day, Miles and his two companions waited for a car to stop near the area of 24th Street and Columbus Avenue in Tucson. When the 40-year-old victim …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Charles B. Rienhardt - One of Reinhardt's friends introduced the victim, Michael Ellis, to Reinhardt for the purpose of helping Reinhardt purchase methamphetamine. On September 4, 1995, Reinhardt, a female friend, Ellis, and his male contact person met at Charles Nadeau's apartment to negoti…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Eugene A. Doerr - On September 24, 1994, Eugene Doerr called police. He reported waking up and finding a dead woman in his bedroom. The nude victim, Karen Bohl, was found lying on the floor with several lacerations to her head. A nipple had been cut off her breast. She suffered major trauma …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

George R. Kayer - George Russell Kayer, who was wanted for violating his probation, borrowed money from his friend, Delbert L. Haas, so he could gamble in Laughlin. Kayer's girlfriend, Lisa Dawn Kester, went with Kayer and Haas to Laughlin where Kayer lost all his money in heavy gambling. Ka…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

James C. Harrod - On April 1, 1988, well-known socialite Jeanne Tovrea was shot five times in the head as she slept in her bed in her Paradise Valley home. The police collected fingerprints at the kitchen window point of entry and inside the house. The investigation stalled until January 199…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Darrell E. Lee - Near noon on December 5, 1991, Darrell Lee and Karen Thompson approached John Calvin Anderson at his car to kidnap and rob him in order to get money to buy drugs. Lee and Thompson took Mr. Anderson's money and credit cards, then took him to a bank machine where they forced h…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Roger W. Murray - On May 11, 1991, Robert and Roger Murray spent the night in Las Vegas, Nevada, and bought a .12 gauge shotgun. The following day, the Murrays drove to Kingman. During the night of May 14, 1991, they decided to rob someone. While driving through Grasshopper Junction, which i…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Robert D. Smith - Sometime between March 11 and March 14, 1980, Smith, Joe Leonard Lambright, and Kathy Foreman picked up Sandra Owen, a young woman with mental problems, who was hitchhiking in the Tucson area. Smith raped Ms. Owen twice, and the group took her to a remote area in the mounta…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

George M. Lopez - In August 1989, Lopez was living in a Tucson apartment with his girlfriend, and their 1-year-old son, Anthony. Around 10 a.m. on August 26, the mother went shopping and left Anthony home with Lopez. When she returned around noon, Anthony had bruises on his forehead and chin…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Joe C. Smith - Shortly before midnight on December 30, 1975, 18-year-old Sandy Spencer finished work at a fast food restaurant and began hitchhiking home. Smith picked her up and drove her to a desert location north and west of Phoenix. There he bound her, forced dirt into her mouth and nost…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Christopher Payne - In January of 2002, Payne married Jamie Hallam. They had two children, Tyler, born in 2001 and Ariana, born in 2002. Shortly after Ariana was born, Payne and Jaime divorced and she got sole custody of the children. Jamie had been investigated by CPS for reports of meth us…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Todd L. Smith - On August 1, 1995, Smith robbed and killed 72-year-old Joe Tannehill and Mr. Tannehill's 73-year-old wife, Elaine, in their trailer at a campsite in Coconino County. Smith bludgeoned them repeatedly with a gun, then slit their throats before leaving with a television set, sev…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Michael S. Gallegos - On March 16, 1990, Michael Steven Gallegos killed his 8-year-old step-niece Kindall Wishon by holding his hand over her mouth and nose causing her to suffocate while he sexually assaulted her. After she died he then proceeded to have anal intercourse with her body while…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Brian A. Womble - Believing he was doing them a favor, Brian Womble, conspired with his brother, Paul Speer over the phone to kill Adan and Enriqueta Soto. Paul Speer was in jail awaiting trial for the March 2002 burglary on the Soto residence with another brother, Chris Womble. Adan and Enr…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Gregory S. Dickens - On the evening of September 10, 1991, Bryan and Laura Bernstein stopped at a rest area off of Interstate 8 outside of Yuma. Dickens (26 years of age) and his 16-year-old accomplice, Travis Amaral, had been waiting near the rest area for "appropriate victims" to rob. Dick…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Michael R. White - Michael White and Susan Minter were lovers. Minter was also having a relationship with David Johnson, a miner from Bagdad. Minter and White decided to kill Johnson to collect on his life insurance policy, so in November of 1987, Minter married Johnson. She then had herself…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Christopher A. Hargrave - Christopher Hargrave and Steven Boggs formed a white supremacist organization called the Imperial Royal Guard. Hargrave met and began dating Gayle Driver, the daughter of the owners of a pawnshop. In April 2002, Hargrave began working at a Jack-In-The-Box in the Mes…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Charles M. Hedlund - On March 10, 1991, Hedlund and his half-brother, James Erin McKinney, brutally beat and shot 40-year-old Christine Mertens in her home, during the commission of a burglary. Mrs. Mertens' son found his mother dead, lying face down on the living room floor. Hedlund and McK…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Roger M. Scott - On December 2, 1989, James Lynn Styers filed a missing child report, advising police that his roommate's son, Christopher Milke (age 4), had disappeared during their visit to Metrocenter mall. Roger Mark Scott was present with Styers. On December 3, 1989, Scott admitted duri…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Edward H. Schad - On August 1, 1978, Lorimer Graves, a 74-year-old Bisbee resident, left Bisbee in a new Cadillac on a trip to Everett, Washington, to visit his sister. On August 9, 1978, Graves' badly decomposed body was discovered hidden in the brush just off U.S. Highway 89 south of Presc…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

James E. McKinney - On Match 10, 1991, McKinney and his half-brother, Chutes Michael Hedlund, brutally beat and shot 40-year-old Christine Mertens in her home, during the commission of a burglary. Mertens' son found his mother dead, lying face down on the living room floor. McKinney and Hedl…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Juan Velazquez - In August 2001, Juan Velazquez moved in with Virginia Venegas and her two young children, 3-year-old Isabella and 1-1/2-year-old Liana. On September 26, 2002, Venegas called 911, reporting that Liana was missing. The Phoenix Police Department responded and a massive search f…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

John E. Sansing - On February 24, 1998, Sansing called a church and requested a charitable food delivery, intending to rob the delivery person so he could purchase cocaine for himself and his wife. Trudy Calabrese delivered the food to the home at a time when Sansing, his wife, and four chil…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Brian J. Dann - At approximately 3 a.m. on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1999, Brian Dann entered Andrew Parks' apartment and shot and killed Andrew, Andrew's sister Shelly, who was Dann's girlfriend of two years, and Andrew's friend, Eddie Payan. The preceding evening, April 3, 1999, Dann had sto…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Homer R. Roseberry - In October 2000, Homer Roseberry, Diane Roseberry, and Charles Dvoracek were involved in a scheme to steal drugs and money, and to re-sell the drugs. Homer Roseberry was trafficking approximately 1300 pounds of marijuana with the victim, Fred Fottler. The two met in Phoe…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Joseph R. Wood - Wood and his 29-year-old ex-girlfriend, Debbie Dietz, had been involved in a turbulent relationship for 5 years, which had been marred by numerous breakups and several domestic violent incidents. Debbie was working at a local body shop owned by her family. On August 7, 1989,…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Frank D. McCray - On May 21, 1987, the victim, Chestene Cummins, was at home preparing to leave on a trip to California with her boyfriend. She had taken the day off work to run errands and pack. McCray somehow gained access to her apartment, most likely while in the neighborhood committing …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Danny L. Jones - On March 26, 1992, Jones and Robert Weaver were visiting in Robert's garage. Inside the home, Robert's 74-year-old grandmother, Katherine Gumina, sat watching television while Robert's 7-year-old daughter, Tisha, lay on the floor, working on some school work. At approximatel…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Richard Glassel - Several months prior to April 19, 2000 Richard J. Glassel made several trips to the Phoenix area from California. Richard Glassel reserved a U-Haul truck one week prior to the shooting and picked up the truck on the day of the shooting. According to the police report, given…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Richard H. Greenway - On March 27, 1988, Greenway and Christopher Lincoln. burglarized the Tucson home of Lili Champagne. Greenway shot and killed Champagne and her 17-year-old daughter, Mindy, with a .22 rifle. He and Lincoln then stole some property, including Mrs. Champagne's Porsche. The…

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Chad A. Lee - On April 6, 1992, Chad Lee and 14-year-old David Hunt kidnapped Linda Reynolds, a Pizza Hut delivery person, from a vacant house. They forced her to remove her clothing in the backyard. Lee and Hunt drove her out to the desert area of Camelback and 115th Avenue. They destroyed …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Ruben Garza - Ellen Franco separated from her husband, Larry Franco, and moved into the home of Jennifer Farley and Lance Rush. Ruben Garza who is Larry Franco's nephew, went to the Franco/Rush residence on the night of December 1, 1999, ostensibly to convince Ellen to reconcile with Larry. …

Arizona Death Row Inmates

Ronald T. Williams - On the morning of March 12, 1981, Williams kicked in the front door of a home in Scottsdale and began to burglarize it. While Williams was inside, a neighbor, John Bunchek, came to the home to investigate. Williams shot Bunchek in the chest, killing him. Williams left Ar…