John Eichinger was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for four murders. According to court documents John Eichinger would stab to death three people in 1999 including that of a three year old child and would murder another woman in 2005. John Eichinger would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.
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Convicted serial killer John C. Eichinger, who murdered four people including a 3-year-old girl, is continuing his efforts to get off death row.
Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr., who personally prosecuted the former supermarket employee from New Jersey, maintained that the 35-year-old Eichinger should die for his crimes.
‘If anyone deserves, legally and morally, to die it is John Eichinger,’ said Castor Wednesday. ‘This case, with its multiplicity of murders, is the perfect case for the death penalty. He is the single most prolific killer in Montgomery County’s history.’
With the state Superior Court and state Supreme Court refusing his requests to overturn his death sentence, Eichinger has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his petition, alleging that Judge William R. Carpenter erred in his sentencing instructions to the jury that subsequently returned with three death penalty verdicts.
Eichinger’s allegation that he did not receive a fair sentence is nonsense, according to county Assistant District Attorney Patricia E. Coonahan, who wrote and this week filed the county’s response to Eichinger’s petition to the country’s highest court.
‘The jury instructions that were given in this case are proper and sound,’ said Coonahan.
Eichinger was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to die by lethal injection for the Good Friday stabbing deaths of 27-year-old Heather Greaves, her 23-year-old sister Lisa Greaves and Heather’s 3-year-old daughter Avery Johnson, at the Greaves family residence on Kingwood Road in King of Prussia in 2005.
He also was convicted of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of Jennifer Still in her Bridgeport apartment on July 6, 1999. He received the life sentence for that first murder.
Carpenter found Eichinger guilty of first-degree murder in all four cases following a brief trial in October 2005 in which Eichinger offered no defense.
The details of the murders were provided by statements that Eichinger gave authorities, letters he wrote from prison to one of his three brothers and a journal he kept.
Eichinger told authorities he had killed both Heather Greaves and Still because they spurned his romantic advances. Lisa Greaves and Avery Johnson had to die because they witnessed the slaying of Heather Greaves, Eichinger confessed.
Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty for Still’s murder because there were no aggravating factors in that case. As a result, Eichinger received a mandatory life sentence without parole for that killing.
However, with Castor seeking the death penalty for the other three murders, John Eichinger opted to have a jury decide his fate. The jury, deliberating almost six hours following a three-day sentencing hearing in November 2005, returned with a verdict of death for each of the three murders.
In his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Eichinger claimed the judge made a mistake by not specifically instructing jurors that there is a ‘presumption of life imprisonment’ in the case unless the district attorney proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the sentence should be death.
‘The death penalty statute in Pennsylvania has been found constitutional in the past by the U.S. Supreme Court and we believe there is no constitutional requirement that explicit jury instructions be given on the presumption of life,’ said Assistant District Attorney Coonahan.
Troy Drumheller was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murder of Carol Huttenstine. According to court documents Troy Drumheller had a history of abusing Carol Huttenstine his on and off again girlfriend who would be fatally stabbed to death by Drumheller in 1999 following her getting a protection order against Troy. Troy Drumheller would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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The evidence suggests that Troy Drumheller and his sometimes girlfriend, Carol Huttenstine (Huttenstine), had a violent and abusive relationship. In fact, Huttenstine filed four separate protection from abuse (PFA) petitions against Troy Drumheller , one in July of 1996, one in February of 1997, one in December of 1997, and the most recent one on January 15, 1999. Each of the PFA petitions contained recitations of acts of abuse perpetrated by Drumheller against Huttenstine, including numerous incidents where Drumheller punched Huttenstine in the face, pulled her hair, kicked her, threw her to the ground, choked her, and threatened to kill her. Following the filing of each petition, the court entered a restraining order against Troy Drumheller . With the last PFA petition, the court issued a temporary restraining order against Troy Drumheller on January 15, 1999, and issued a final restraining order on February 8, 1999, that Huttenstine never requested be discontinued, altered, or modified.
This final PFA order was in effect at the time of Huttenstine’s death on April 24, 1999. The court served Troy Drumheller with notice of the January 15, 1999 PFA order restricting his contact with Huttenstine. However, on at least four occasions, Huttenstine reported to police that Drumheller had violated the terms of that order by contacting her. (Notes of Testimony (N.T.), dated December 6, 2000, Volume 4, at 152-153). In fact, on March 2, 1999, approximately six weeks before her death, Huttenstine reported to police that Troy Drumheller had appeared at her home and had grabbed her. Id. at 144-148.
On August 12, 1997, Huttenstine had contacted police to provide them with information regarding the drug trafficking activities of Drumheller. Thereafter, Huttenstine became a confidential informant and had contact with police many times. Brenda Thomas (Thomas), another former girlfriend of Drumheller, who was also cooperating with police as a confidential informant, testified that she had first met Huttenstine in May of 1997, at which point Huttenstine showed her bruises and bite marks. According to Thomas, Huttenstine told her that Troy Drumheller had done this by punching her, pulling her hair, biting her, and kicking her with steel-toed boots. Id. at 195. While Huttenstine was at Thomas’ house, Drumheller appeared and accused them both of plotting against him to set him up on a drug bust. Id. at 196. Troy Drumheller allegedly told Huttenstine and Thomas that if “either one of [them] ever did anything to set him up he would kill [them].” Id. On other occasions, Drumheller told Thomas that he thought Huttenstine was providing information to police about his drug dealing and that if he “ever found out or had proof to back up his suspicions he would kill her.” Id. at 197. Cheryl Cerasoli (Cerasoli), the director of Beyond Violence, a women’s center that Huttenstine frequented between January of 1999 and her death that April, testified that Huttenstine told her that, “Troy is going to kill me. He knows that I am going to testify against him.” Id. at 208-209.
Shortly after midnight on April 24, 1999, the date of her murder, Huttenstine appeared at the mobile home of Robert Brockway (Brockway), a friend and co-worker of Huttenstine. Brockway testified that Huttenstine told him that Drumheller had gotten into her house and had started beating her. (N.T., dated December 5, 2000, Volume 3, at 38-39). Huttenstine showed Brockway bruises and bite marks. Id. At approximately 1:30 a.m., Brockway and Huttenstine were startled by a loud noise; Brockway testified to the ensuing events as follows:
A: I heard the screen door pulled open and then my inside door was kicked in.
* * *
Q: Once the door swung open and swung back what is the first you observed in regard to your front entrance?
A: The door had swung. It hit the door and it had swung back part way. And the first thing I saw was-it was the light reflecting off of a knife blade.
Q: Subsequent to seeing the knife blade did you see an individual that you recognized?
A: Yes.
Q: Who was that individual?
A: Troy Drumheller walked into the house.
* * *
Q: Mr. Drumheller entered your home that night? Can I assume he had no permission to enter your home?
A: No.
* * *
Q: Once the Defendant entered and closed the door was the knife still in his hand?
A: Yes․ His right hand.
* * *
Q: Sir, what specifically, if you can recall did he say to Carol Huttenstine at that point?
A: As they were arguing she was saying that “I had nothing to do with this.” He was just yelling over top of her about running away from him all the time, going to the police all the time, testifying. It was just a battery of things that he went through.
Q: At any point during that battery of things did he mention a P.F.A. or protection from abuse order?
A: Yes, he did.
Q: What was the last thing that he said to her prior to anything physically happening?
A: Well, as they went through the things, running to the police, the cops, and then “You are going to [expletive deleted] testify.” And then he stabbed her.
Q: Sir, where did he stab her?
A: He stabbed her in the left side of the torso.
* * *
Q: At that point, Sir, did you react or do anything?
A: Yes, I said, “Troy don’t do this,” you know, you know, “there is nothing going on. I don’t know what is going on. It has nothing to do with me.”
Q: And what did he say to you?
A: He told me, he said, “shut the [expletive deleted] up, boyfriend.”
Q: Did he then make a move in your direction?
A: Yes.
Q: Can you explain what he did?
A: The area was-it was only a ten-foot wide trailer. And with the furniture in there there is only a few spaces you can walk through it. And, he just took like two steps and he stabbed me [in] my left breast.
* * *
A: I looked up at him. I couldn’t believe he did this. And he laughed and he said, “See that? Look at that. You are bleeding. You are going to die tonight. We are all going to die tonight.”
* * *
A: [He then turned back to Carol.] He was facing Carol, away from me. And when I stood up he turned to face me again.
Q: Was the knife still in his right hand?
A: Yes.
Q: At that point, did Carol do something that distracted him?
A: Yes, she was holding the phone up. She grabbed the phone and she hit the talk button and it beeped and she started dialing.
Q: What did the Defendant do at that point?
A: He grabbed the phone with his left hand and I couldn’t really see what he did, but it looked like a punching motion and the phone was smashed.
* * *
Q: At that point was there any conversation between Carol and yourself?
A: Yes. Right when he grabbed the phone and smashed it she said, “Bob, go get help. Go next door.”
Q: Did you start to run out the back of the trailer?
A: Yes.
Q: Prior to exiting the trailer, did you look back at Carol and say anything?
A: Yes, I fell at the door. I was dizzy when I got up. When I ran off, and I stood up, and I turned around, and I told her “Carol, I am going for help.”
Q: Do you know whether the Defendant still had physical possession of the knife?
A: Yes, he did.
Q: Where was he the last time you saw the Defendant? Where was he in relation to Carol?
A: Standing right next to the chair yelling at her.
(N.T., Volume 3, at 43-51). Brockway made it to the home of a neighbor, who called the police and the paramedics. At 1:44 a.m., the State Police arrived at the scene and observed Huttenstine’s motionless body laying on the floor of Brockway’s mobile home.
Kevin Dowling was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murder of a woman who was set to testify against him. According to court documents Kevin Dowling would sexually assault and rob a woman before taking off. Later Kevin Dowling would be recognized by the victim at the place where he worked and would call the police who would arrest Dowling. Dowling would be released from custody and would murder the victim to prevent her from testifying against him. Kevin Dowling would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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Kevin Dowling was convicted of killing a store clerk to prevent her testifying against him, the case featured on a recent episode of the Investigation Discovery series American Monster.
In 1996 Jennifer Myers was attacked at the Gray Fox Gallery in Spring Grove, PA, which she owned and operated. Her assailant had robbed and then attempted to rape her.
A few months later, Myers spotted her attacker working at a local gas station and called the police.
Dowling was charged with robbery and indecent assault, but Myers was found dead before the trial started. On October 20, 1997, she’d been shot in the head and chest at the same gallery where the attack had taken place.
During the trial, Dowling produced a videotape that he said showed he was away fishing at the time of the murder, however, detectives were not convinced, and experts examined the tape.
It took an astrophysicist recommended by NASA to work out using the sun that the time on the video did not match the actual time of day.
Kevin Dowling was found guilty of murder in 1998 and sentenced to death.
However, he continues to protest his innocence and has made various appeals complaining about his initial defense council.
It was August 5th 1996, and 44-year-old Jennifer Myers was busy working at the art gallery she owned in the small borough of Spring Grove in York County, Pennsylvania. However, she could not have known as she carried out her daily routine at the Gray Fox Gallery that her life was about to change forever.
Without warning, a man wearing sunglasses burst in with a gun, tied Jennifer up and sexually assaulted her before robbing the gallery and fleeing. Stunned and horrified by her ordeal, she called the police and the search began for her mystery assailant.
It didn’t take long for a break in the case to arrive. As Jennifer was picking up some groceries at a Sheetz convenience store in nearby Hanover just a few days later, she was taken aback to recognise her attacker working there.
When Jennifer called the authorities, the member of staff was identified as local resident Kevin Brian Dowling. His car was towed and impounded, with officers finding a pair of sunglasses that matched those worn by Jennifer’s attacker inside. There was also rope that matched the bindings used on her during the assault and a newspaper clipping covering the crime.
Kevin Dowling was charged with robbery and attempted rape and, as preparations were made to build a case against him for trial, it seemed as though the victim was going to get the justice she deserved
Unfortunately, this was not the case. On October 20th 1997, just two days before Jennifer was set to testify against Kevin Dowling, her husband Steve went to visit her at the art gallery. To his horror, he walked towards the counter to find his wife’s body lying prone on the floor.
She had been shot once in the chest, once in the left shoulder and once in her left eye. Steven Myers reported the murder at 3:08 PM and, when police rushed to the scene, they found a number of eyewitnesses had seen the aftermath of the crime.
A woman said she had almost been struck by a car leaving the shopping centre where the Gray Fox Gallery was located, while a man reported seeing a man in a strange black wig hanging around at roughly the time of the murder.
Investigators were not particularly surprised when the female eyewitness identified Kevin Brian Dowling as the man who had nearly run her over. When they again searched his vehicle, they discovered a letter he had written to Jennifer ahead of the trial, apparently asking for her forgiveness.
Furthermore, his flannel shirt, pants, hat and sneakers all tested positive for gunshot residue. Once again, it looked as though this would be a straightforward case against Kevin Brian Dowling for the murder of the woman he had so viciously attacked the year before.
However, a surprise did arrive for investigators when they raided his home. As detailed in the TV series American Monster, Dowling’s wife was amazed and angry to find her husband accused of Jennifer’s murder.
She claimed he had been on a fishing trip that day — and she had the evidence that seemed to prove it. There was a home video that Kevin Dowling had made as he fished on the lake, complete with timestamps covering the time of the murder. Could it be that Dowling wasn’t responsible for the murder at all?
Somewhat thrown by this development, investigators were forced to take another look at the crime scene and take into consideration evidence that could show someone else had killed Jennifer. Steven Myers was brought in for questioning and became a suspect, especially when it was discovered that he owned a gun similar to the one that had killed his wife.
But forensic examiners still weren’t convinced over Kevin Dowling’s alibi. After all, he had a clear motive for wanting to get rid of Jennifer: her silence when it came to potentially convicting him of attempted rape and robbery.
Detectives returned to the VHS tape produced by Dowling’s wife and took another look at it. Wasn’t it strange that someone would create such an extensive record of a fishing trip, particularly one where nothing of note was caught? A few clips might be understandable to document a whopper, but hours of nothing seemed strange to want as a keepsake.
Then a sharp-eyed detective saw something else that was odd: the position of the sun appeared to alter within a few frames to be much lower in the sky, despite the timestamp still saying the footage was from before midday.
Galvanised, investigators consulted a university professor and NASA astrophysicist to analyse the footage. Using careful calculations, he confirmed their suspicions: some of the video had been shot much later in the afternoon than the rest. The timestamp had been tampered with and Kevin Dowling could still be the murderer.
When faced with this, Dowling confessed that he had altered the timestamp on the video. However, he insisted he had done so to conceal from his wife the fact that he had been at a Harrisburg strip club at the time, not so he could travel to the art gallery to murder Jennifer Myers.
“I was concerned she might wonder why there was a four hour time gap in the video, since we had argued in the past about my frequenting these places,” he commented in an online post.
Nevertheless, investigators first sent Dowling to trial for the original attempted rape, for which he was convicted in April 1998 and sentenced to nine to 18 years in prison. On October 26th 1998, they then tried him for Jennifer’s murder based on the forensic evidence and the admission that Dowling had lied about the videotape.
The prosecution argued that his motive was to prevent Jennifer from testifying against him at the trial for his attempted rape and robbery charges.
There was also another interesting clue in the case: a link to the long black wig eyewitnesses said they had seen a man wearing at approximately the time of the murder. According to detectives who had been involved in the search of the Dowlings’ home, a photograph had been found of their daughter wearing — as part of a fancy dress costume — a wig that matched the one they had been looking for.
It belonged to Mrs Dowling, who had lent it to a friend, who in turn told police that she had given it back to Kevin Dowling when she returned it. He could therefore have had it in his possession when Jennifer was killed.
Corporal Julio Mendez from Pennsylvania State Police told Investigation Discovery’s Solved this addressed the problem of their never having found the alleged disguise Dowling wore.
“We never had the wig, but we did have the wig because we had a photo of his daughter wearing the wig,” he commented wryly.
A jury decided that Kevin Brian Dowling was guilty of first-degree murder and, after finding one aggravating circumstance and no mitigating circumstances, returned a verdict of death. Despite an appeal, a court ruled there was sufficient evidence to support this and the conviction was upheld in September 2005.
During his time in prison, Kevin Dowling has continued to insist that he did not murder Jennifer Myers. In a blog post, he offers a detailed list of arguments against the evidence presented to convict him, including the notion that the timing of the murder means he could not have been the culprit.
Indeed, he claims he was still at the lake — regardless of the altered timestamps — at the time the eyewitness was supposedly being almost hit by his car. He also claims he finds it suspicious that Steven Myers found the body when he says he did, arguing that he was in fact the killer and snuck out of work to murder his wife.
Dowling maintains that too much emphasis was placed on the fishing video as evidence when his actual alibi would have been his presence at the strip bar.
There is also a ‘Free Kevin Brian Dowling’ Facebook page that suggests Jennifer’s killer was left-handed and told her during the attack that he didn’t want to return to prison — somewhere Dowling had never been — among other theories that aim to support his innocence.
At a post-conviction hearing as recently as July 2021, Dowling’s attorney requested a new trial on the grounds that false evidence was presented during trial and physical evidence from the car had been improperly admitted, the York Dispatch reported.
Judge Robert J Eby did not make a ruling at the hearing but said he would consider the request, although all previous appeals have failed so far. Dowling’s original execution date was set for February 27th 2007, but the law states that death row inmates must exhaust all post-conviction relief options before they can be put to death.
Meanwhile, there is currently a state ban on executions anyway. It therefore looks as though, unless Kevin Brian Dowling can successfully argue that he didn’t kill Jennifer Myers, he will spend the rest of his days at the SCI Phoenix prison in Collegeville.
For Jennifer Myers’ family, this will no doubt bring little in the way of comfort.
Anthony Dick was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murders of two children. According to court documents Anthony Dick was with his wife at a local motel where he would shoot her first before shooting the two sleeping children. His wife would survive the attack however the children did not. Anthony Dick would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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A 43-year-old Bloomsburg man was sentenced to death Thursday by a Columbia County judge on two counts of first-degree murder.
Anthony J. Dick on Wednesday had pleaded guilty to killing his 18-month-old son and 4-year-old stepson as they slept at the Stone Castle Motel in early 2006.
He also pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted murder and aggravated assault of his 23-year-old wife, Betty. Mr. Dick now awaits Judge Thomas A. James Jr.’s decision on those charges, according to the Columbia County court administrator’s office.
Mr. Dick reportedly asked Judge James for the death penalty Wednesday during his plea hearing, saying he wanted to be executed for what he did to his family.
The shooting attack took place in the early morning hours of Jan. 24, 2006, at the Stone Castle Motel along Route 11 just inside the Columbia County border.
Mr. Dick shot his wife twice with a .22-caliber handgun before shooting both sons while they slept, according to state police at Bloomsburg.
Mr. Dick then turned the gun on himself, state police said, and injured his stomach.
The two boys were found dead under blankets lying on the floor. Mrs. Dick escaped to a nearby motel room, where she and another lodger called for help.
Mrs. Dick was treated at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, and has since been released. She reportedly attended the plea hearing along with other family members.
A few weeks prior to the killings, Mrs. Dick obtained a protection-from-abuse order against Mr. Dick. According to state police, she had sought protection-from-abuse orders several times before.
Mr. Dick, who has been married three times, has a reported history of violence against women and children. His wife, ex-wife and a former girlfriend all had protection-from-abuse orders against him, dating to 1993.
Mrs. Dick and the boys reportedly checked into the Stone Castle Motel on Jan. 9, 2006, after a custody hearing gave her primary custody of her 18-month-old son.
Mr. Dick was staying with them at the time of the killings, in violation of the protection-from-abuse order, state police said.
Tedor Davido was sentenced to death by the State of Pennsylvania for the murder of his girlfriend. According to court documents Tedor Davido would fatally beat his girlfriend after sexually assaulting her. Tedor Davido would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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. Prior to 2000, Tedor Davido served a sentence in Ohio for aggravated assault against a former girlfriend whom he had accused of having sexual relations with one of his brothers. In late April 2000, Appellant’s new girlfriend, Angelina Taylor, and her two-year-old son moved from Ohio to live with Appellant at 26 Hager Street in Lancaster. Appellant’s mother, sisters, brothers, and the girlfriend and children of Appellant’s brother, Spanky Davido, also resided there. On Sunday morning, May 14, 2000, an argument arose between Appellant and Ms. Taylor deriving from his suspicion that she had engaged in oral sex with Spanky Davido.
The dispute became violent, and Tedor Davido began beating and loudly berating Ms. Taylor, calling her a “whore” and a “bitch” that “sucks d* *k.” N.T. Trial, 12/5/01, at 59. Ms. Taylor begged Appellant to stop hitting her and asked Appellant’s sister for help. When Appellant’s sister told Appellant to stop beating Ms. Taylor, Appellant cursed at her and ordered her to leave. Ultimately, all of Appellant’s relatives left the residence, taking Ms. Taylor’s son with them, leaving only Appellant and Ms. Taylor inside. At 7:52 a.m., shortly after leaving the residence, Appellant’s sister called 911 from a pay phone several blocks away. After identifying herself as a neighbor, she reported that a man was beating a woman at 26 Hager Street.
Two police officers were immediately dispatched to investigate a “domestic situation” that involved a “man ․ hitting a woman[,]” and were informed en route that loud screaming had been heard from inside the residence. Id. at 80. The officers arrived at the residence shortly before 8:00 a.m., but all was quiet. They knocked at the front and back doors, but no one answered. They opened an unsecured window in the front of the house, announced themselves and listened for any response, but heard nothing. The officers radioed police dispatch for information regarding the 911 caller or for the phone number within the residence. The officers were told by dispatch that the 911 call had come from a pay phone and that no phone number was listed for the address. The officers heard a phone ringing inside but the call was not answered. Responding to a “gut feeling” that someone inside might be injured or otherwise in need of assistance, one officer entered the residence through an unsecured window, unlocked a deadbolt on the front door, and admitted the other officer. N.T. Trial, 12/5/01, at 84. The officers continued to announce themselves and their reason for being there, and proceeded to conduct a floor-to-floor, room-to-room search for any injured person who might have been in need of assistance.
Tedor Davido, who had been inside the house, heard the officers enter, and fled through a third-story window, wearing only a pair of sweatpants and socks. He ran along a rooftop, jumped onto a car parked in an adjacent alley, and then ran to the home of Michele Gray. He informed Ms. Gray that he had beaten Ms. Taylor, and that he had fled when he had heard the police in the house. He also told her that at the time he fled, Ms. Taylor had been pale, motionless, unresponsive, and having trouble breathing.
Meanwhile, the officers made their way to the rear bedroom on the third floor, where they discovered a woman, later identified as Angelina Taylor, naked under a sheet on a mattress on the floor. Ms. Taylor was seriously injured, with numerous bruises and cuts visible on her face and body, including her pelvic region, as well as severe bruising on both sides of her throat and around both eyes. Her eyes were open but she was completely unresponsive and having difficulty breathing. The officers called for emergency response personnel, who took the victim to the hospital. The police then secured the scene and obtained a search warrant for the residence.
At the hospital, the victim (initially identified as Jane Doe) was placed on life-support after being diagnosed as comatose due to bleeding in the brain. In the trauma unit, a rape-kit examination was conducted, which revealed numerous lacerations, bruises and abrasions inside and outside the victim’s vagina. A large quantity of motile sperm was removed from inside her vagina as well. The victim never regained consciousness and her brainstem herniated from the swelling inside her head. The victim was pronounced brain-dead at 4:55 p.m. on May 14, 2000, and was removed from life-support the next day, after her identity had been established and her parents, who had been contacted in Ohio, arrived at the hospital and gave their consent to end life-support.
After he left Michele Gray’s house, Tedor Davido fled to Harrisburg and stayed overnight at a motel under an assumed name. He returned to Lancaster the next day where, pursuant to a warrant, he was arrested on charges of murder and rape.1 After informing Appellant of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), the police questioned Appellant, who gave conflicting accounts of what had occurred. At first, Tedor Davido denied strangling the victim, but he later admitted that he had choked her with his hands, while denying that he used a cord or other ligature device. He theorized that the bruising on the victim’s neck could have come from her shirt, because he had pulled on it. He admitted slapping the victim but denied hitting her with a closed fist. When asked about the bruises on her body and face, he stated that the victim had fallen down the stairs from the second floor to the first floor and had landed on her face. He later explained that he and the victim had been standing near the top of the steps and that she had grabbed his shirt. He further stated that he then turned around and grabbed at her, and “she flew over my head like a dream” and tumbled down the steps face-first. N.T. Suppression Hearing, 3/28/01, at 55; N.T. Trial, 12/10/01, at 677.
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