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A search of Williams' car turned up a St. Louis Post-Dispatch ruler and calculator that had belonged to Gayle. A laptop stolen from Gayle was also recovered from a man who testified that Williams had sold the victim’s laptop to him. [3] [6] Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001, and received a death sentence. [5]
Williams' license to practice law, which had been suspended on October 10, 2012, was permanently revoked when he was disbarred on February 3, 2014. [19] Eric Williams was found guilty of capital murder [20] at his trial in Rockwall County on December 4, 2014. [21] He was sentenced on December 17, 2014, to die by lethal injection. [22]
Williams' attorneys noted that a bloody shoeprint, fingerprints and hair found at the scene did not match Williams. But a prosecutor said such tests were merely inconclusive. The knife used in the killing also was left at the scene. A crime scene investigator testified at Williams' 2001 trial that the killer had worn gloves.
A Missouri woman who admitted to killing her husband because she couldn’t afford to divorce him has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. On Monday, Jan. 27, Melanie Biggins, 42, pleaded guilty ...
In May 2023, U.S. Representatives Matt Cartwright and Glenn Thompson, both of Pennsylvania, introduced Eric’s Law, a bill that would permit prosecutors to impanel a second jury for sentencing if the first jury in a federal death penalty case fails to reach a unanimous decision on a sentence, as it did in Con-ui's trial for Williams' murder. [19]
Laurie Leigh Shaver, 41, of Fla., was found guilty of second-degree murder with a firearm for killing her husband, Michael Douglas Shaver, 36, in 2015, authorities said She Killed Her Husband and ...
Timothy Williams is the first person to go on trial in New York after being connected to a crime by what is known as "familial DNA." Former Rochester homicide investigator's testimony marks start ...
MUNCIE, Ind. — A 23-year-old Muncie man convicted of murder was sentenced Monday to 70 years in prison. A Delaware Circuit Court 1 jury on July 18 found Malek S. Williams guilty in the shooting ...