Summary of Offense:
Leta Kagen, 39, Leta's 15-year-old son, Robert Delahunt, Roland Wear, 50, and Bobby Poyson, 21, lived in a remote area of Mohave County. On August 13, 1996, Frank Anderson, 48, and Kimberly Lane, 15, had been hitchhiking in the area, and Leta agreed to let Anderson and Lane spend the night.
Anderson, Poyson, and Lane decided to kill Leta, Robert, and Roland, and steal Roland's truck and other property.
Lane enticed Robert into a travel trailer on the property, where Anderson cut Robert's throat nearly from ear to ear with a bread knife. Anderson held the struggling boy down, and then assisted Poyson in driving the bread knife through Robert's ear, and out his mouth. Poyson finally ended Robert's struggling by crushing his skull with a rock.
Three to four hours later, after eating dinner, Anderson and Poyson entered Leta's mobile home, and Poyson killed her by shooting her in her head with a rifle, as Anderson held a lantern for light. Roland awoke, and Poyson shot him in his mouth. Poyson then hit Roland with the rifle stock, and Anderson hit him with the lantern. Roland and Poyson struggled out into the yard, where Anderson gave Poyson a cinder block, which Poyson used to bludgeon Roland to death.
Poyson was sentenced to death on November 20, 1998.
Lane has since been released from prison after testifying against Anderson and Poyson. Anderson was also sentenced to death. For more on Anderson, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...zona-Death-Row
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