Jurors Decide Life or Death for Missouri Killer
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KSPR News
Story Created:
Aug 1, 2008
Story Updated:
Aug 1, 2008
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- (AP) Jurors who found a suburban Kansas City man guilty of murder in the videotaped sexual torture and slaying of a 41-year-old woman will now decide if he'll receive the death penalty.
Jurors were hearing testimony Friday morning in the penalty phase of the trial for 44-year-old Richard D. Davis, of Independence.
A day earlier, Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping, rape, sodomy, and assault in the May 2006 slaying of Marsha Spicer, of Independence. He was convicted of kidnapping, rape, sodomy and assault in the attack of 36-year-old Michelle Huff-Ricci a month earlier.
He was acquitted on one count of first-degree assault related to the attack on Huff-Ricci.
The key evidence in the case was videotapes that prosecutors say Davis and his girlfriend made of the attacks on Spicer and Huff-Ricci to fulfill Davis' violent sexual fantasies.