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Not Guilty Plead Entered in Munzanreder Murder
Not Guilty Plead Entered in Munzanreder Murder
Not Guilty Plead Entered in Munzanreder Murder
The two men accused of killing Cynthia Kelley-Munzanreder pleaded not guilty Tuesday. Prosecutors say John Munzanreder killed his wife Cynthia after they saw a movie together last month. A charge Munzanreder denied. Juan Ibanez Cortes made the same plea and will go before a judge next week to discuss bail...
Judge to Decide if Murder Suspect Should Pay for Attorney’s Fees
Judge to Decide if Murder Suspect Should Pay for Attorney’s Fees
Judge to Decide if Murder Suspect Should Pay for Attorney’s Fees
Should John Munzanreder pay for his own attorney or should taxpayers foot the bill? That was the question in front of a judge Thursday during a hearing in Yakima County Superior Court. Munzanreder is being held in connection with the shooting death of his wife Cynthia in the parking lot of a Union Gap theater earlier this month...
Judge Dismisses lawsuit against Yakima Valley Community Foundation
Judge Dismisses lawsuit against Yakima Valley Community Foundation
Judge Dismisses lawsuit against Yakima Valley Community Foundation
Yakima County Superior Court Judge Susan Hahn entered judgment in favor of the Yakima Valley Community Foundation and dismissed, with prejudice, former employee, John Colgan’s lawsuit. A related case by another former employee, Emily Medeiros was dismissed with prejudice on February 15, 2013...
Gorski Found Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder in 1997 Clift Cold Case
Gorski Found Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder in 1997 Clift Cold Case
Gorski Found Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder in 1997 Clift Cold Case
A Yakima County Superior court jury Monday found Michael Gorski guilty of 2nd degree murder for the death of Carolyn Clift in 1997. He was also convicted of having a deadly weapon at the time of the murder. Gorski took the stand last week hoping to convince the jury he did not kill Clift and admitted lying to police about being at her apartment the night she died...
Another Trial Delay in the Goggin Triple Murder Case
Another Trial Delay in the Goggin Triple Murder Case
Another Trial Delay in the Goggin Triple Murder Case
Another delay Monday in the West Valley Triple murder case against Tracy Culton. Her trial date was pushed back several months and is raising questions whether this could be a repeat of mishaps we saw in the Kevin Harper trial. Culton was supposed to go on trial next month for in the deaths of Bill, Pauline and Bettye Goggin...
Harper Murder Trial Costs $370,000
Harper Murder Trial Costs $370,000
Harper Murder Trial Costs $370,000
It was the plea deal that shocked Yakima; a year and a half after three people were found brutally beaten to death it their West Valley home, prosecutors decided they did not have the evidence to convict their prime suspect Kevin Harper...
Dead Body Found, Utah Man Turns Himself in to Yakima Police
Dead Body Found, Utah Man Turns Himself in to Yakima Police
Dead Body Found, Utah Man Turns Himself in to Yakima Police
Investigators say a Utah man turned himself in to Yakima police Friday and provided information that led authorities to his girlfriend's dead body. Steven Grey is now a murder suspect in the death of 44-year-old Jennifer Brackenbury. Police in Orem, Utah received word from Yakima Police this past Friday that Grey had turned himself in...
Harper Plea Bargin Shocks Yakima
Harper Plea Bargin Shocks Yakima
Harper Plea Bargin Shocks Yakima
In February of last year Bill, Pauline and Bettye Goggin were found beaten to death in their home in West Valley. Today, the man arrested and charged with their murders is no longer facing life in prison. That's because as part of a plea bargain the aggravated first degree murder charges were dropped in a hearing Wednesday in Yakima County Superior Court...
Goggin Triple Murder Case Develops More Twists
Goggin Triple Murder Case Develops More Twists
Goggin Triple Murder Case Develops More Twists
Kevin Harper entered a Yakima courtroom on day two of what's technically his trial. Though, so far there's no jury and we haven't heard opening statements. The Goggin triple murder case was forced to start Monday in line with the deadline to meet Harper's right to a speedy trial...

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