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    Jaron Allen Kubler Sentenced to LWOP in 2019 NC Slaying of Kayla Melissa Dubuque



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    Death penalty possible for Kernersville man accused of stabbing woman to death


    By Michael Hewlett
    Winston Salem Journal

    Prosecutors can seek the death penalty if they get a murder conviction in the case of a Kernersville man accused of stabbing a woman to death and later admitting his alleged crimes to Washington, D.C. police, a judge ruled on Monday.

    Judge Todd Burke of Forsyth Superior Court granted a request from prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against Jaron Allen Kubler, 30, of Loradale Drive. Kubler is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and obtaining property by false pretenses.

    Indictments allege that he kidnapped Kayla Melissa Dubuque and stabbed her to death on Jan. 4, 2019. Authorities said that Kubler drove afterward to Washington, D.C., where he told Metropolitan Police that he had killed a woman and left her body at his apartment. Metropolitan police contacted Forsyth County Sheriff's deputies, who went to Kubler's apartment and found Dubuque's body on Jan. 6, 2019.

    According to an autopsy report, Dubuque died from multiple stab wounds to her head and neck.

    Monday, Burke held what is known as a Rule 24 hearing. Assistant District Attorney Alison Nicole Lester presented three out of a potential 11 aggravating factors aimed at justifying the pursuit of the death penalty — that
    Kubler had previously been convicted of a violent felony, that Dubuque was murdered while Kubler was committing another felony, and that her murder was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel.

    Kubler served a maximum of four years after he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious injury in Greene County. He was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in that case. He also served nearly six years for an armed robbery conviction in Rockingham County.

    Kubler signed a plea transcript on Monday in which he would agree to plead guilty to first-degree murder and accept a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

    But Lester did not accept the plea, saying that prosecutors intend to pursue the death penalty, which would require a trial.

    Jerry Jordan, Kubler's attorney, said Kubler's constitutional rights would be violated because of Chief Justice Cheri Beasley's various orders delaying jury trials in response to COVID-19. Currently, no jury trials are scheduled until October.

    Burke, the senior resident superior court judge for Forsyth County, said that he is considering the possibility of delaying Forsyth jury trials until January 2021.

    He also said that Kubler's constitutional rights have not been violated and delays in court functions are necessary to blunt the spread of COVID-19.

    Search warrants allege that Dubuque worked as a prostitute and that Kubler had paid to have sex with her on several different occasions. Search warrants also said that a sheriff's deputy who went to the apartment found Dubuque with a towel covering her face.

    Deputies reported finding "multiple types of drug paraphernalia and powdery residue suspicious for an illicit drug" in the apartment, according to the autopsy report.

    Search warrants said Kubler told investigators that he had used cocaine before killing Dubuque and that, afterward, he drove to a friend's house and then to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2019. That friend reportedly told investigators that Kubler was wearing flip-flops with a red substance on them.

    According to search warrants, investigators found two cellphones — one belonging to Dubuque and the other belonging to Kubler — on the bed, along with a knife. Authorities said in the search warrants that they believed the knife was the murder weapon.

    Deputies seized two knives from the apartment, however — a black handle pocket knife and a bone handle knife with a sheath. The search warrants didn't say which knife investigators found on the bed.

    Investigators also sought to search the laptop computer Kubler is accused of pawning in Kernersville, though the laptop did not belong to him.

    Detectives with the sheriff's office have also searched his car, a 1997 White Pontiac Grand Prix, for a bloody shirt Kubler told investigators he was wearing before he changed into a cleaner one. It's not clear if they found the shirt.

    Kubler is in the Forsyth County Jail with no bond allowed.

    https://journalnow.com/news/local/de...0397d45d3.html
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    Kernersville man accused of kidnapping and murdering a woman is being transferred to state prison on a safekeeping order

    By Michael Hewlett
    Winston Salem Journal

    A Kernersville man awaiting trial on murder and kidnapping charges has been transferred to the state prison system on a safekeeping order, according to court documents.

    Jaron Allen Kubler, 31, of Loradale Drive, is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and obtaining property by false pretenses. He is accused of kidnapping Kayla Melissa Dubuque and stabbing her to death on Jan. 4, 2019. Authorities said that

    Kubler drove afterward to Washington, D.C., where he told Metropolitan Police that he had killed a woman and left her body in his apartment.

    Metropolitan police contacted Forsyth County Sheriff's deputies, who went to Kubler's apartment and found Dubuque's body on Jan. 6, 2019. According to an autopsy report, Dubuque died from multiple stab wounds to her head and neck.

    Kubler could face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder.

    Judge David Hall of Forsyth Superior Court signed an order for safekeeping that was filed on Dec. 10. In the order, Hall cited state law that allows for the transfer of a prisoner if that prisoner "exhibits violently aggressive behavior that cannot be contained and warrants a higher level of supervision."

    His attorneys, David Freedman and Jerry Jordan, filed a motion on Dec. 8 seeking the safekeeping order. The motion said the order was needed due to the "violent nature of the charges in this case" and because Kubler had "exhibited 'aggressive' behavior in the past" that requires more supervision than the Forsyth County Jail can provide.

    Freedman said Monday that the order "is in everyone's best interest."

    Kubler was indicted on Nov. 30 on a charge of assault on a person employed at a state or local detention facility. An indictment alleges that on July 8, Kubler struck detention officer J.R. Stock in the head with a computer tablet, causing a cut on Stock's head that bled.

    Kubler was indicted on first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in July. In August, Judge Todd Burke of Forsyth Superior Court granted a request from prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against Kubler after what is known is a Rule 24 hearing.

    Assistant District Attorney Alison Nicole Lester presented three out of a potential 11 aggravating factors aimed at justifying the pursuit of the death penalty — that Kubler had previously been convicted of a violent felony, that Dubuque was murdered while Kubler was committing another felony and that her murder was especially heinous, atrocious and cruel.

    Kubler served a maximum of four years after he was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, inflicting serious injury in Greene County. He was originally charged with attempted first-degree murder in that case. He also served nearly six years for an armed robbery conviction in Rockingham County.

    A trial date has not been set.

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    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Man sentenced to life in prison after killing 25-year-old woman he met online

    By Carrie Hodgin
    WXII News

    WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A man pled guilty in Forsyth County Superior Court to first-degree murder in the death of a woman who was killed in 2019.

    At the time, officers found the woman’s body in Kernersville in an apartment after they said Jaron Allen Kubler told an officer in the nation’s capital that he killed 25-year-old, Kayla Melissa Dubuque.

    Officers said Dubuque had multiple cuts to her body. Investigators said Kubler met her online and drove her back to his apartment for a date. He said they then did drugs and got into an argument about it. He said Dubuque threw a syringe at him. That’s when he attacked and stabbed her with a knife, he said. She was stabbed multiple times in her face, neck, abdomen and arms. Investigators said he then fled and stashed his bloody clothes at a friend’s house. They said he then drove to Washington D.C. and later confessed to the murder.

    Kubler pleaded guilty to murder, kidnapping, obtaining property by false pretense and assaulting a detention officer.

    He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and 110 months at the expiration of the life sentence for the kidnapping of Dubuque.

    https://www.wxii12.com/article/north...tence/42959189
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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