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    Sentencing begins for Craigslist killer

    Sentencing began Tuesday for a 20-year-old man convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 21-year-old Navy wife he met on Craigslist.

    David Sparre could face the death penalty for killing Tiara Pool.

    In court Tuesday morning, Sparre went against the advice of his attorneys and waived his right for witnesses to testify on his behalf during the sentencing.

    During the trial, prosecutors described what they called the ruthless and violent killing of Pool, a mother of two boys, in her Hodges Boulevard apartment in July 2010.

    "Eighty-nine. Over 89 stab wounds or cuts made by that man when he brutally killed the young lady," prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda said. "What killed this innocent young lady was major stab wounds to her back. She was cut across her neck, she was stabbed across her back numerous times, and she was left on her bedroom floor naked, left to die."

    Prosecutors said Pool posted an ad on Craigslist seeking friendship. They said Pool's husband was out at sea, and they were having problems in their marriage. Prosecutors said Pool's sons were out of town with her in-laws when she was killed.

    Attorneys said Sparre, who was living in Georgia, responded to the online ad, and he and Pool text messaged each other for about a week until they finally met in Jacksonville.

    Sparre told Pool he was visiting his grandmother, who had to go to St. Vincent's Medical Center, prosecutors said. Surveillance video shows him walking around the hospital.

    Prosecutors said the two met at the hospital, but eventually went back to Pool's apartment. That's where attorneys disagree on what led to her killing.

    "He realized what had happened, and it was too late," defense attorney Michael Bateh said. "He saw the body of Tiara Pool laying there in her own blood."

    Defense attorneys said Sparre and Pool were intimate, and when Sparre found out she was married, he blacked out and then found her dead, not realizing what he did.

    Prosecutors said Sparre never blacked out. He not only killed her with her own kitchen knife, but stole some of her things before leaving and heading back to the hospital, prosecutors said. They said he even sold her PlayStation to a pawn shop in Georgia.

    Police said it was four days until a concerned friend, Michelle Edwards, went to check on Pool and found her dead in her bedroom.

    "I went to open the bedroom door," Edwards testified. "When I opened it, I noticed that her hand was there, and then I ran, I turned around and ran out the door."

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    Jury recommends death for Craigslist killer

    It took a jury about an hour Tuesday to unanimously recommend the death penalty for a 20-year-old man convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 21-year-old Navy wife he met on Craigslist.

    A judge will decide whether to sentence David Sparre to death for killing Tiara Pool by stabbing her 89 times.

    In court Tuesday morning, Sparre went against the advice of his attorneys and waived his right for witnesses to testify on his behalf during the sentencing.

    Because of Sparre's request, prosecutors only brought up three people for victim impact statements.

    The judge said that by the defense not being able to bring up witnesses, Sparre eliminated more than 25 mitigating factors in his defense, ranging from his family's troubles, such as abuse, to medical factors, such as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and attention deficit disorder.

    Defense attorneys said they would have called 17 people to make impact statements, including someone they flew in from Belize, had Sparre not waived his right for witnesses to testify on his behalf.

    During the trial, prosecutors described what they called the ruthless and violent killing of Pool, a mother of two boys, in her Hodges Boulevard apartment in July 2010.

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    Jacksonville Craigslist killer: ‘I enjoyed it and I hope to do it again’

    David Kelsey Sparre said he’d killed before with a gun, but getting up close and stabbing someone to death is something he figured to be a “good rush.”

    After 89 slashes into a Jacksonville woman’s body, he said it was something he enjoyed and hoped to do again.

    The 20-year-old went on and casually relived the vicious slaying in a letter obtained by the Times-Union that he wrote to his ex-girlfriend — his daughter’s mother — as he awaits his sentencing, possibly death.

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    Sparre wanted Ashley Chewning to know the truth about why he killed “that girl,” 21-year-old Tiara Pool, whose Craigslist personal ad he answered with her Navy husband deployed at sea.

    “I wanted to try something just to see how it felt,” he wrote.

    The Waynesville, Ga., man said he searched for a potential victim for a week as he prepared to come to Jacksonville for his grandmother’s surgery at St. Vincent’s Medical Center. It was as his grandmother recovered, prosecutors said, that he was gashing the life out of another.

    Sparre said it took about five minutes to kill Pool at her Hodges Boulevard apartment. He said she was on her stomach on her bed when he first began hacking at her, eventually making their way to the bedroom door where her body was later discovered, surrounded by spatters of blood.

    “After she quit fighting, I tilted her head back and sliced her throat,” he wrote. “... I’m not even going to lie. I enjoyed it and I hope to do it again.”

    He wrote how he had planned out the killing having the “perfect alibi” and being “pretty intelligent” about crime scenes and criminal procedures.

    Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda said the letter is of the most graphic in describing a murder that he has seen in his 29 years as a prosecutor.

    “This letter just sends chills to everybody I’ve shown it to in terms of how descriptive he is about what he did,” de la Rionda said. “It shows how ruthless and cold-blooded he is and how he has no remorse whatsoever.”

    De la Rionda said he has spoken with authorities in Georgia about a past killing Sparre wrote about in the letter as part of his initiation as a gang member. Sparre said the rival gang member was the first but not the last he had shot for disrespecting his turf.

    The letter was confiscated by corrections officers who began blocking correspondences sent to Chewning after she told prosecutors during his trial that she was tired of receiving letters from him. He testified that he had already told her that he killed Pool in a previous letter.

    Sparre’s defense attorney, Refik Eler, had unsuccessfully tried to block the letter from being admitted into evidence in a Feb. 6 motion, following the jury’s December recommendation that Sparre receive the death penalty. The letter was dated Jan. 2.

    Eler argued during Sparre’s trial that his client had met Pool only for sex. Conceding second-degree murder, he contended that Sparre snapped and went into a rage after Pool told him she was married with two young children after they had already had sex.

    Eler declined to comment in regards to the letter.

    Left solely for its consideration is Circuit Judge Elizabeth Senterfitt, who will decide if Sparre will be sentenced to death or life in prison.

    His sentencing is set for March 30.

    http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2...#ixzz1oTRRfinb

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    Craigslist Killer sentencing today

    The local known as the Craigslist Killer will be in court for his sentencing hearing today.

    David Sparre has pleaded guilty to the killing of local navy wife, Tiara Pool.

    Prosecutors say the two met on Craigslist and decided to meet. Pool was killed after being stabbed 80 times in her apartment on the Southside.

    A jury recommended the death penalty for Sparre, but a judge will make the final decision this morning.

    David Sparre's sentencing hearing is set for 9 a.m. Friday morning.

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    Craigslist killer sentenced to death for Jacksonville slaying

    Despite his self-proclaimed intelligence as a criminal, the police tracked him down.

    Then a Jacksonville jury found the South Georgia man guilty. They later voted unanimously in favor of capital punishment.

    And whatever mercy he might have had left with the judge likely vanished when the expressions of delight he got from stabbing a Jacksonville woman 89 times were revealed in a letter he wrote following his conviction.

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    So it almost seemed a formality this morning when Circuit Judge Elizabeth Senterfitt sentenced 20-year-old David Kelsey Sparre to the death penalty.

    Sparre was convicted Dec. 2 in the murder of Tiara Pool, whose 21-year-old body he left in a bloody mess inside her Hodges Boulevard apartment in July 2010.

    Sparre had met the Navy wife through Craigslist where she had placed a personal ad while her husband, with whom her marriage had become troubled, was deployed at sea.

    Bringing his grandmother to town for a surgery, Sparre would later write that he had the “perfect alibi.”

    And with Pool’s two young children away with their grandparents, the two met at St. Vincent’s Medical Center and went back to her apartment where they became intimate.

    Sparre’s defense team argued that it was after the sex when Pool informed him that she was married with children, pushing him into a rage.

    But the jury didn’t buy that. With the unsettling images of the crime scene and a mutilated body likely burned into their minds, the jury’s verdict was based on premeditation.

    http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2...#ixzz1qbr0bUhl
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    DC Number:................J46231
    Name:.......................SPARRE, DAVID K
    Race:........................WHITE
    Sex:..........................MALE
    Hair Color:..................BROWN
    Eye Color:..................BLUE
    Height:......................6'02''
    Weight:.....................175 lbs.
    Birth Date:.................07/07/1991
    Initial Receipt Date:.....04/02/2012
    Current Facility:..........FLORIDA STATE PRISON
    Current Custody:.........MAXIMUM
    Current Release Date:..DEATH SENTENCE

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    Cheers for the pictures jansen!

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    He must be one of the youngest death row inmates right now in the USA (if not the youngest)...I am slightly older than Mr. Sparre (by four months), and I was intrigued by the fact that Texas' youngest death row inmate (as of now), Cortne Mareese Robinson, 21, (born in December 1990) is not much older than I am....

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    And that is the tragedy of it all...so many have their entire lives in front of them, and they choose a path that will end their lives long before it is time.......

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    Death sentence for Craigslist killer to go before Florida Supreme Court

    By Larry Hannan
    The Florida Times-Union

    A man who killed a Navy wife after answering her personal ad on Craigslist may end up changing the way death-penalty cases are defended in Florida.

    Lawyers for David Kelsey Sparre, 22, are asking the Florida Supreme Court to throw out his death sentence for the murder of 21-year-old Tiara Pool, whose body was found with an estimated 89 slashes inside her Hodges Boulevard apartment in July 2010.

    Sparre arranged to meet Pool while her husband, with whom her marriage had become troubled, was deployed at sea. Sparre later told police he killed Pool for the “rush.”

    In court filings Tallahassee Assistant Public Defender Nada Carey argues that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Senterfitt was wrong to sentence Sparre to death without allowing evidence to be presented on his mental-health and substance-abuse issues.

    Sparre told his lawyers he didn’t want to mount a defense. But Carey said that when death-penalty defendants refuse to defend themselves, the state still has an obligation to consider factors that would justify life in prison without parole instead of Death Row.

    “A sentence of death resulting from anything less than a full airing of the relevant facts in mitigation does not meet the constitutional standards of reliability recognized by this court,” Carey said in court filings.

    Oral arguments before the Supreme Court are scheduled for Tuesday.

    At a death-penalty hearing prior to sentencing, Chief Assistant Public Defender Refik Eler, who defended Sparre at trial, had planned to introduce evidence that he was mentally unbalanced and had been abusing drugs and alcohol since he was 11.

    But Sparre instructed Eler not to present any evidence on his behalf. With no defense, and friends and family of Pool testifying for the prosecution during the hearing, the jury that convicted Sparre unanimously recommended he get death and Senterfitt followed its recommendation.

    The Supreme Court should send Sparre back for a resentencing and require the appointment of special counsel to present mitigating evidence in cases where a defendant does not contest the death penalty, Carey said.

    Assistant Attorney General Charmaine Millsaps argued that the idea of appointing a special counsel every time death-penalty defendants refuse to defend themselves is impractical.

    “The source of most mitigation is the defendant himself and he will refuse to assist special counsel,” Millsaps said in court filings.

    Defendants also have a right to choose their own defense, and appointing special counsel would violate that right, Millsaps said.

    The Florida Supreme Court dealt with this issue once before in another Jacksonville murder case.

    James William Hamblen killed 34-year-old Laureen Jean Edwards in 1984 when he saw her trigger a silent alarm as he robbed her Beach Boulevard lingerie store. He ordered her back into a dressing room and shot her in the back of the head at close range.

    Hamblen confessed at the scene, fired his public defender and represented himself, insisted on pleading guilty and argued that he should be executed.

    On appeal, lawyers for Hamblen said the judge shouldn’t have allowed him to represent himself during the death-penalty phase because Hamblen wanted to be executed. The Supreme Court rejected that argument, finding that Hamblen had a constitutional right to represent himself.

    He was executed in 1990 when he was 61.

    Carey argues that the Supreme Court should overturn the Hamblen precedent and create a new one while Millsaps argues that Hamblen is a precedent that should be followed in this case.

    http://members.jacksonville.com/news...-supreme-court

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