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    James Granvil Wallace - Arizona




    Facts of the Crime:

    Wallace lived with Susan Insalaco and her two children, 16-year-old Anna and 12-year-old Gabe. After an argument with Susan on the night of January 31, 1984, Susan told Wallace to move out the next day. After Susan, Anna and Gabe left the next day, Wallace did not leave and instead stayed in the house and decided to kill them. When Anna returned from school that day, Wallace was waiting with a baseball bat. He hit Anna repeatedly on the head until the bat broke, then pushed the broken end of the bat through her throat.

    Wallace put Anna's body in the bathroom, cleaned up and then got a steel pipe wrench from a shed. When Gabe came home, Wallace followed him into his room and killed him by striking him in the head with the pipe wrench. Wallace then waited for Susan. When she arrived two hours later, she asked him why he had not left as she had requested. He followed her into the kitchen and killed her by hitting her in the head with the same wrench.

    Wallace was resentenced to death on November 29, 2009.

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    Tucson man sentenced to death again in 2 slayings

    Jurors decide addict's fate in '84 deaths of kids, 12, 16

    A Tucson man has again been sentenced to die for bludgeoning his girlfriend's two children to death in February 1984.

    It took the jury less than eight hours over two days to decide James Wallace's childhood and substance abuse issues don't mitigate the "especially heinous and depraved" way in which he killed Anna Monzon, 16, and Gabriel Monzon, 12.

    Before being led from the courtroom, Wallace turned to one of his defense attorneys, Eric Larsen, shook his hand and hugged him.

    "Thank you brother. You have a good life," Wallace told Larsen.

    Wallace, 59, pleaded guilty more than 25 years ago to murdering Susan Insalaco, 36, and her children, and was sentenced to die.
    His case has been appealed several times and last year, the Arizona Supreme Court overturned Wallace's death sentences in regard to the children and sentenced Wallace to life in prison for killing Insalaco.

    Friday's sentence will again be automatically appealed.

    Prosecutors Rick Unklesbay and Carolyn Nedder argued Wallace is deserving of the death penalty because of the way the children died, their helplessness and the senselessness of the crime.

    Larsen and co-counsel Jill Thorpe asked the jury to spare Wallace's life, saying Wallace turned to alcohol and drugs as a child because of a difficult upbringing. As a result of those substances, Wallace, to this day, doesn't understand why he did what he did, they said.

    Wallace was Insalaco's boyfriend. She wanted him moved out of her house by the time she and her children returned from work and school on Feb. 1, 1984, Unklesbay told jurors.

    Instead of moving out, Wallace hid behind the front door and waited for each of them to get home, Unklesbay said.

    When Anna Monzon arrived home from school at 2:45 p.m., he attacked her with a small wooden bat, striking her about a dozen times in the head and breaking the bat.

    Fifteen minutes later, Wallace attacked Gabriel with an 18-inch plumber's wrench, fracturing his skull multiple times, Unklesbay said.

    Two hours after that, Wallace attacked the children's mother with the same wrench. He spent the night at a friend's house and turned himself in to police the next morning.

    Earlier this week, forensic psychologist Robert Smith told jurors Wallace grew up in a "chaotic, abusive and neglectful" home.

    Wallace's father was a chronic alcoholic who worked as a lineman and only came home on the weekends and his mother was chronically depressed, psychotic and delusional, Smith said.

    Wallace began getting drunk and inhaling gasoline and airplane glue when he was about 9, smoking marijuana at 12 and taking hallucinogens, such as LSD, at 13, Smith said. The alcohol and drug usage continued even when Wallace joined the military at 18, he said.

    Wallace remains appalled and confused over his actions, Smith testified.

    Under cross-examination, Smith told Unklesbay he cannot explain how Smith had the mental wherewithal not to kill Gabriel Monzon's friend, despite the fact the boy showed up twice during the carnage.

    Smith also acknowledged Wallace never sought help for his addictions.

    Judge Virginia Kelly presided over the case in Pima County Superior Court.

    http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/318561.php

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    Oral arguments are scheduled for the 1st of November.

    http://www.azcourts.gov/clerkofcourt...tCalendar.aspx

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    Death penalty overturned for AZ man who killed 3

    PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence of a Tucson man who bludgeoned his girlfriend and her two children to death in 1984, ruling that the murders weren't especially heinous.

    In its Tuesday ruling, the state's highest court vacated two death sentences for 61-year-old James Granvil Wallace and imposed two sentences of life in prison instead.

    While the justices wrote that the Feb. 1, 1984, murders of Susan Insalaco and her 12-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter in their Tucson apartment were heinous in layman's terms, they weren't according to the letter of the law.

    That's because the justices found that Wallace didn't knowingly inflict more wounds on the family than he thought were necessary to kill them.

    Wallace turned himself in to police the day after he killed the family.

    http://www.kswt.com/story/17267272/d...n-who-killed-3
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    Am i missing something here???? Isn't killing any child a "especially heinous" act????? He needs to be put down......

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    Death Sentence Overturned Because 3 Murders Not Especially Heinous

    The Associated Press reports the Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the death sentences of James Granvil Wallace, who killed his girlfriend and her two children in 1984, ruling that the murders don't meet the legal requirement for being heinous or depraved because "the State has not established beyond a reasonable doubt that Wallace inflicted gratuitous violence on the two victims." Wallace had waited behind the front door for each of his victims to return home separately. When his girlfriend's 16-year-old daughter arrived home first, Wallace attacked her from behind, slamming a baseball bat into her head at least ten times with so much force that the bat broke. Still alive, Wallace dragged her into the bathroom and rammed the broken bat into her neck, down her chest cavity, and out her back. When the 12-year-old boy arrived home shortly after, Wallace bludgeoned him about ten times with an 18-inch pipe wrench, crushing his skull. When Wallace's girlfriend arrived home a couple of hours later, he used the same pipe wrench to kill her, hitting her in the head four or five times. His two death sentences for killing his girlfriend's children were vacated, and the court imposed two sentences of life in prison on top of the life sentence Wallace is already serving for killing his girlfriend. The court's opinion is here.

    http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/...scan-1162.html

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/27...-who-killed-3/

    Ugh. This reminds me of a german war criminal case. The thug wrapped piano wire around all these children's necks and hung them on coat hooks in a classroom. He got a slap on the hand from the German courts because they didn't think the children suffered or if they did, not for long. Sickening...

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