Vanessa Lei Samson, 22
James Anthony Daveggio
Facts of the Crime:
James Daveggio and his then-girlfriend Michelle Michaud kidnapped Vanessa Lei Samson, 22, in December 1997. The Sacramento couple kept Samson inside their minivan, rigged with hooks and ropes, where they repeatedly tortured her with curling irons while driving east toward the Sierra Nevada. A motorist found Samson's body two days later, face down in the snow, about 30 feet down a embankment alongside a road in Alpine County. She had been strangled.
Daveggio and Michaud were sentenced to death in Alameda County on September 25, 2002.
For more on Michaud, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...hlight=michaud
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