LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A decide sentenced a person Tuesday to 24 years to life in jail for killing an aged couple and stealing their Social Safety checks.
Robert Dunn, 62, had entered an Alford plea within the homicide case. An Alford plea is when a defendant signifies there’s a chance of conviction throughout trial however would not admit guilt.
Clark County District Courtroom Choose Carli Kierny mentioned Dunn didn’t present the solutions she was on the lookout for as he blamed his household and prosecutors.
Dunn admitted to stealing cash however didn’t admit to the murders.
Man pleads responsible to murders of couple present in Las Vegas storage unit greater than a decade in the past
Prosecutors mentioned Dunn hid the our bodies in a Las Vegas storage unit for greater than a decade whereas he lived off the victims’ Social Safety advantages.
The Clark County District Lawyer’s workplace beforehand filed an amended indictment Wednesday for 15 expenses, together with two counts of homicide of a sufferer age 60 or older, two counts of theft of a sufferer age 60 or older, and 11 counts of theft.
Dunn beforehand confronted the dying penalty earlier than coming into the plea deal.
The victims, Joaquin Sierra, 86, and Eleanor Sierra, 82, had been final seen in 2003. Their our bodies had been discovered with kitty litter and concrete in duct-taped rubbish cans within the storage unit in 2014.
Dunn met the couple in California and had satisfied them to maneuver to Nevada with him, in response to prosecutors. Family members of Joaquin and Eleanor Sierra tried to intervene to save lots of the couple from Dunn earlier than they disappeared.
A Clark County grand jury initially indicted Dunn in 2015.
Dunn gave the impression to be concentrating on one other senior on the time of his arrest, in response to prosecutors.
Kierny gave Dunn credit score for 3766 days already served in jail.
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