Re: Napa roomate murders could result in death penalty


earthage2002@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> http://www.ktvu.com/news/5032291/detail.html
> Napa Homicides Could Result In Death Penalty
> POSTED: 12:14 pm PDT September 28, 2005
> UPDATED: 11:48 am PDT September 29, 2005
> Associated Press
>
> NAPA -- Murder charges with special circumstances carrying the death
> penalty will be filed against a Napa man, who is charged in the
> stabbing deaths of a former South Carolina beauty queen and her
> roommate nearly a year ago, prosecutors said Thursday.
>
> Eric Matthew Copple made admissions linking him to the crime, but they
> have not revealed why the women were killed.
>
> The statements to police linked him to the slayings of Adriane Insogna
> and Leslie Mazzara, both 26, in their Dorset Street home on Nov. 1,
> 2004, Napa police Chief Richard Melton said at a morning press
> conference.
>
> Copple was arrested early Wednesday after interviews that began when
> Copple and some of his family members arrived at a police station
> Tuesday night, Melton said.


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/29/MNGT4EVSNU8.DTL
>>From SF Chronicle:

Copple apparently believed that he was on the verge of being caught for
the slayings, and relatives convinced him to go to the police, Melton
said.

He was accompanied to the station by several family members, including
his wife, who had been a friend and co-worker of Insogna's.

At the station, Copple made "numerous statements" linking himself to
the crime, Melton said.

"Based on his admissions, you could say he had confessed," Melton said.

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