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Re: Arizona Range News, August 11, 2010 headline "Condemned killer gets new chance." People living in Willcox during April, 1997, will remember the brutal and senseless rape/murder of Ms. Judith Coughlin, the newly hired manager of the Sands Motel. The killer, motel guest Kyle David Sharp, had called the desk telling Ms. Coughlin there were no towels in his room. When she fell for his ruse, she was killed after delivering the towels. Her young son, frightened when his mother did not return to the office, called police who found Sharp in a drug-induced stupor, and Ms. Coughlin dead inside the room.
The subsequent investigation into Sharp's past revealed that his girlfriend was murdered a year earlier in much the same manner. In Arizona, Sharp was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. But now, this serial killer has found attorneys and a willing judge to reopen his case on grounds that he is a poor misunderstood individual for whom society should feel sorry.
Doesn't the Cochise County attorney's office have better things to do with their time and our tax dollars? No wonder voters all across our country are shouting, "Throw the bums out!"
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
Willcox
The subsequent investigation into Sharp's past revealed that his girlfriend was murdered a year earlier in much the same manner. In Arizona, Sharp was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. But now, this serial killer has found attorneys and a willing judge to reopen his case on grounds that he is a poor misunderstood individual for whom society should feel sorry.
Doesn't the Cochise County attorney's office have better things to do with their time and our tax dollars? No wonder voters all across our country are shouting, "Throw the bums out!"
Phyllis Morreale-de la Garza
Willcox
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