Summary of Offense:
On March 27, 1980, Davenport tortured, raped and murdered 30-year-old Gayle Ann Lingle, a Tustin woman, whose body was found abandoned in a vacant field in Irvine in 1980. A pathologist testified that Davenport, a motorcyclist who was known as "Honda Dave," impaled his victim on a wooden stake while she was still alive.
Originally sentenced to death in Orange County on November 4, 1981 and resentenced to death after a new penalty trial on June 26, 1990.
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