Frank Winfield Anderson

Frank Winfield Anderson (born April 4, 1948 ) is an American murderer sentenced to death in the state of Arizona . His trial was the first in Arizona State in which a defendant was convicted by a jury , rather than by a judge, as was previously the case.

Sequence of events

Frank Anderson and his then 14-year-old girlfriend, Kimberly Lane , traveled to Nevada from their home in Lancaster, California . On 10 August 1996, they were in Las Vegas as a hitchhiker picked up by a stranger who them to a family in Golden Valley (Arizona) brought, which he knew she took boarders. This was the property of Leta Kagen , her son Robert Delahunt and her husband Elliot Kagen . Roland Wear and 19-year-old Robert Poyson also lived there .

Anderson and Lane spent a few days there when they and Poyson made the decision to kill the residents and steal Wear's pickup .

On the evening of August 13, 1996 - Elliot Kagen was visiting a sick friend in Kingman, Arizona - Lane lured 15-year-old Robert Delahunt into a trailer that was in the back of the property where they kissed on a mattress. Anderson , who had previously hidden a knife in the trailer, grabbed the boy and cut his neck with the knife. The two then fought for the knife.

When Poyson came to help Anderson , Lane left the trailer. Anderson finally stabbed the knife in Delahunt's ear and held it while Poyson lowered the knife until it came out of the boy's nose. He then hit him with a stone until he died. The three accomplices then went to the Kagen's trailer. Leta Kagen and Roland Wear went to bed a few hours later, not knowing what had happened to the 15-year-old. Around midnight, Poyson took a rifle that was in the trailer, went with Anderson into the bedroom where Leta Kagen and Roland Wear were sleeping and shot them both. While Kagen died instantly, Wear was only injured in the jaw. He jumped out of bed, whereupon Poyson hit him on the head with the rifle butt and Anderson a lantern. Wear ran - followed by the two men - from the trailer where Poyson with one of Anderson gereichten slag concrete block on Wears head struck until it died.

After hiding the body and picking up a few items, Anderson , Lane, and Poyson exited the Golden Valley at Wear's Pickup head east on Interstate 40 . Anderson was arrested five days later in southern Illinois , and Lane and Poyson were later arrested at a homeless home in Evanston, Illinois .

judgment

Anderson was sentenced to death unanimously in the first instance for armed robbery, dating to murder and triple murder. On appeal, the Arizona Supreme Court overturned the judgment and ordered a new hearing because the selection of jurors was incorrect. At the subsequent trial, Anderson was found guilty again on all charges. He was sentenced to death three times for the murders, life imprisonment for the murder date, and twelve and a half years in prison for the armed robbery.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Article on azcentral.com from February 28, 2006 , accessed on February 14, 2012
2. ↑ SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 220 kB), accessed on February 14, 2012  
3. ↑ ^{a b} ARIZONA SUPREME COURT ORAL ARGUMENT CASE SUMMARY  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 37 kB), accessed on February 14, 2012  

Web links

• Frank Anderson profile and picture at the Arizona Department of Corrections , accessed February 14, 2012
• Summary of fact at the Arizona Department of Corrections , accessed February 14, 2012