Stephen Marc Stone, left, has been charged with killing his wife Krista and son Zachery
State seeks death penalty in Huntsville double murder case
The man charged with killing his wife and son appeared in court on Wednesday.
Stephen Marc Stone faces two counts of capital murder. He is being held without bond in the Metro Jail.
Police said Stone strangled his wife, Krista, and then strangled and drowned his 7-year-old son, Zachary in February.
A Huntsville Homicide Investigator took the stand Wednesday and said the day before the murders, Stone left a note for Krista that said, "I need to go for a drive," and he went to Florida.
The investigator said when Stone came back late, Krista woke up and confronted him. There was no big argument, but he began to choke her.
He said Stone then went to Zachary's room and started choking him, but he didn't die. He then put Zachary in the bathtub, where he drowned.
The next morning, the investigator said Stone took the two girls down to Leeds, and stopped at Walmart to change clothes.
He walked into Leeds Police Department and made his confession.
Investigators said they found the victims in the family's home on Chicamauga Trail in south Huntsville in the master bedroom, both of them on the bed.
Stone's defense attorneys, Brian Clark and Lonzo Robinson, said there is no evidence in the home that Stone was the killer.
The judge approved the defense's motion to review the crime scene.
Prosecutors Rob Broussard and Tim Gann plan to seek the death penalty.
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