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    Adam Slater Charged in 2020 CA Murder of 1-year-old Madalyn Slater




    Sex offender father accused of killing 1-year-old daughter, tossing her over cliff, police say; could face death penalty


    A California man has been charged on multiple counts in relation to the death of his 1-year-old daughter on May 6.

    Adam Slater has been charged with multiple crimes, including murder, the Palm Springs Desert Sun reported.

    Police said Slater stabbed his wife who is the child’s mother before he took his daughter, KESQ reported. Family members told KESQ that the woman is 6 months pregnant with the couple’s second child. About half an hour later, Slater’s car went off a highway and overturned.

    Originally it was reported that the child, whose name was Madalyn, was thrown from the crash, KESQ reported.

    But police said when a person tried to help get the little girl from the car’s wreckage, police said Slater stabbed the man and ran with the child. He then threw her into a ravine, the Desert Sun reported.

    KNTV reported Slater also slashed and killed Madalyn before he threw her over the cliff.

    He ran from police but was eventually caught.

    Neither his wife nor the bystander who were both stabbed had life-threatening injuries.

    Slater is a registered sex offender stemming from a 1995 conviction. He served about 2 years behind bars before he was released in 1997.

    He is now charged with 1st-degree murder with a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a knife in the commission of a murder and committing a murder during a kidnapping. That makes him eligible for the death penalty if the District Attorney decides to seek that sentence, KNTV reported.

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    Case against man accused of infant murder off of Hwy 74 will head to trial

    By Christopher Damien
    Desert Sun

    The case against the man accused of killing his 1-year-old daughter after attacking her mother and driving off of Highway 74 will go to trial, a judge ruled Friday.

    Adam Slater, 51, of Palm Desert has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder, assaulting a child and assault with a deadly weapon.

    Riverside County Superior Court Judge Dean Benjamini heard testimony during a two-day hearing at the Larson Justice Center in Indio and ruled there is enough evidence for the case to proceed to trial. Slater faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted as charged.

    Several witnesses recounted their shock at watching the events leading up to the killing during the hearing, which concluded Friday. One man testified to driving by Slater assaulting the mother of the child in a church parking lot in Indian Wells. Slater allegedly stabbed the mother, then took the child, Madalyn Slater, and sped off up Highway 74.

    One man testified to seeing the vehicle he believed Slater was driving accelerate off of one of the road's sweeping turns and overturning among the boulders below. The motorist, along with another, hiked down to the crashed vehicle in an attempt to help the people inside.

    One of them, Joseph Mahfet, testified that he pulled the crying child out of the vehicle and attempted to comfort her. The other passerby, Kenneth Jenkins, helped Slater out of the vehicle. To the surprise of both, Slater allegedly attacked Mahfet while attempting to stab the child in his arms.

    Both men testified to seeing Adam Slater take the child and throw her off of a cliff.

    Two Riverside County Sheriff's deputies testified to chasing Slater down a steep ravine before arresting him and carrying him back up to the road on a gurney due to injuries from fleeing barefoot among the cactus and boulders. A California Highway Patrol officer testified to later finding the infant buried under a pile of rocks. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

    Slater is next due in court in August.

    https://www.desertsun.com/story/news...al/7506835001/
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