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    Brooke Marie Rottiers - California Death Row


    Brooke Marie Rottiers


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    Convicted and sentenced to death in two 2006 day-laborer murders.

    A prostitute, her boyfriend and another woman have been convicted by three separate Riverside juries of luring two day laborers from a bar to a Corona motel room and killing them. Brooke Marie Rottiers, Omar Tyree Hutchinson and Franchune Dyuel Epps were found guilty of murder and a special circumstance of robbery. The trio was convicted of killing 22-year-old Marvin Gabriel and 28-year-old Milton Chavez. The day laborers' decomposing bodies were found gagged and hogtied inside an abandoned Honda Accord near Lake Mathews in August 2006.

    Epps and Hutchinson face life in prison without parole.

    Rottiers was sentenced to death in Riverside County on October 22, 2010.

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    June 30, 2010

    Three convicted in brutal killings of two

    RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A prostitute, her boyfriend and another woman have been convicted by three separate Riverside juries of luring two day laborers from a bar to a Corona motel room and killing them.

    Brooke Marie Rottiers, Omar Tyree Hutchinson and Franchune Dyuel Epps were found guilty Friday of murder and a special circumstance of robbery.

    The penalty phase of Rottiers' trial began Tuesday. Jurors must decide on the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

    Epps and Hutchinson face life in prison without parole.

    The trio was convicted of killing 22-year-old Marvin Gabriel and 28-year-old Milton Chavez. The day laborers' decomposing bodies were found gagged and hogtied inside an abandoned Honda Accord near Lake Mathews in August 2006.

    http://www.cbs47.tv/news/state/story...w.cspx?rss=154

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    July 15, 2010

    Jury recommends death sentence


    RIVERSIDE - Jurors weighing the fate of a sometime-prostitute facing the death penalty for beating and suffocating two men she lured to her motel room on the pretext of sex are slated today to begin their fifth day of deliberations.

    Brooke Marie Rottiers, 30, of Corona, was convicted June 23 of two counts of first-degree murder and special circumstance allegations that the crimes were committed during the course of a robbery.

    The same jury that convicted her must now recommend whether she should be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole.

    Rottiers' co-defendants, Omar Tyree Hutchinson, 34, and Franchune Dyuel Epps, 26, were convicted of the same charges and are facing life prison terms when they're sentenced by Superior Court Judge Helio J. Hernandez -- Hutchinson on Aug. 16 and Epps on Aug. 17.

    The penalty phase of Rottiers' trial lasted about a week, ending July 7.

    The defense took up most of that time calling witnesses who described the woman's interaction with her four young children.

    Julia Gallardo, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was among those who testified. Rottiers had a daughter, Riva, with Gallardo's son, Luis, in 2004.

    Gallardo testified that Rottiers was "very attentive to her children" but also had trouble "going on the right road."

    The defendant's drug use led Gallardo to take custody of Riva in 2006.

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    Sandra Bright is seeking capital punishment for Rottiers because she masterminded the murders of 22-year Marvin Gabriel and 28- year-old Milton Chavez on Aug. 28, 2006, according to prosecutor Sean Lafferty.

    The day laborers met Rottiers and Epps while drinking after work at a Highgrove bar, Lafferty said.

    Rottiers led the men to believe she would provide sex for cash and had them follow her and Epps back to the National Inn in Corona, where Rottiers lived with Hutchinson, a small-time drug dealer, according to Lafferty.

    Once inside the motel room, Epps pulled a gun and held it on the victims while Rottiers and Hutchinson stripped them and stole their money and valuables, the prosecutor said.

    Rottiers, who stands nearly 6 feet tall and weighs 200 pounds, beat the 5-foot-2 Chavez, then bound him and Gabriel with electrical cords, phone cords, bras and panties, according to Lafferty.

    The defendant, known as "Crazy," suffocated the men, stuffing underpants down their throats and taping plastic bags over their heads, the prosecutor said.

    He said the defendants also beat the men over the head with a blunt instrument.

    Their bodies were wrapped in bed sheets, loaded into the trunk of a car that Rottiers drove to Gavilan Hills, a remote area near Lake Matthews, and left beside a dirt road, where they were discovered by a resident the next day.

    http://www.myvalleynews.com/story/49351/

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    July 15, 2010

    Death penalty recommended for prostitute

    In Riverside, a jury has recommended that a Norco prostitute be executed for the slayings of 2 laborers.

    The verdict against Brooke Rottiers came Thursday after more than 6-days of deliberations.

    Rottiers, 30, had been picked up in Riverside and lured them to a Corona motel room. She was joined by a man and another woman who ‘hog-tied’, strangled and robbed the victims. Their bodies were found in the trunk of an abandoned car near Lake Mathews.

    Omar Hutchinson and Franchune Epps were convicted by separate juries and will be sentenced next month.

    Rottiers will be formally sentenced September 17th.

    (Source: Inland News Today)

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    Ex-Corona prostitute sentenced to death for torturing, murdering two men

    Brooke Marie Rottiers, 30, of Corona, was convicted June 23 of two counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of 22-year Marvin Gabriel and 28-year-old Milton Chavez.

    An ex-prostitute was sentenced to death today for killing two men during a robbery, in what a judge described as a “cold, callous, brutal and particularly cruel” crime.

    Brooke Marie Rottiers, 30, of Corona, was convicted June 23 of two counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of 22-year Marvin Gabriel and 28-year-old Milton Chavez.

    Jurors also found true a special circumstance allegation that the Aug. 28, 2006, killings were committed during the course of a robbery.

    The same jury recommended that Rottiers be executed for the killings — a recommendation that Riverside County Superior Court Judge Helios J. Hernandez affirmed today.

    “The defendant’s conduct … included beating, hitting, stomping, hog-tying and asphyxiation,” Hernandez said. “Her actions were cold, callous, brutal and particularly cruel. She went well beyond the minimum necessary to rob and cover her tracks.”

    http://www.swrnn.com/southwest-river...#ixzz13BGrlwmP

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    Counsel was appointed to represent Rottiers on direct appeal on December 31, 2013.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...hSUCAgCg%3D%3D

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