Summary of Offense:
Convicted and sentenced to death in the December 2000 murders of Rufus and Kyoko Johnson inside their Pineda Crossings home. Welch tied up, beat, strangled, stabbed and slashed the Johnsons -- his former next-door neighbors. Rufus Johnson, 69, and Kyoko Johnson, 66, were beaten and cut and she was strangled. Their children found their bound bodies four days after the murders.
Welch was sentenced to death in Brevard County in 2005.
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