Valerie Gunnell
Shemaeah, 5 and Lecresha, nine months
Summary of Offense:
Kiles lived in Yuma with his girlfriend, Valerie Gunnell, and her two daughters, nine-month-old Lecresha and five-year-old Shemaeah. On February 9, 1989, Kiles used a bumper jack to bludgeon Valerie to death in their home. He then killed the two children because they started "screaming and hollering" as he killed their mother.
Kiles bragged about the murders to an acquaintance and took him on a tour of the murder scene, during which Kiles stepped on Valerie's head. Lecresha's body was later found floating in a canal in Mexico, but Shemaeah's body was never found.
After first being sentenced to death in 1989, Kiles was re-sentenced to death on June 13, 2006.
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