Summary of Offense:
Clifford Merck, 75, and Alma Merck, 81, liked to putter around the house, took occasional fishing trips and looked forward to visits from their children. On September 4, 1984, they were killed by Robert Wesley Cowan in their southeast Bakersfield home. Alma had four children by her first husband. Clifford had no children. They were married in the 1960s.
Cowan was sentenced to death in Kern County on May 8, 1996.
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