Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Mingo County Murder Trial Continues
WEST VIRGINIA....
A Mingo County man from Red Jacket could end up being convicted and sentenced to death for a second time for the murder of drug informant 33 year old Carla Collins. In 2005, Collins was shot and beaten severely with a cinder block at an abandoned trailer in Double Camp before her body was buried in a nearby shallow grave. Lecco's defense attorney, Amy Austin, who refers to Lecco's former co-defendant, Valerie Friend as a "thug," is attempting to prove she and Patricia Burton killed Collins for many reasons but not because Lecco told them to or gave them cocaine. Austin says Burton and Friend were jealous of Collins. However, prosecutors say Lecco had Collins killed to protect a cocaine ring which operated out of his Pizza Plus restaurant.
A Mingo County man from Red Jacket could end up being convicted and sentenced to death for a second time for the murder of drug informant 33 year old Carla Collins. In 2005, Collins was shot and beaten severely with a cinder block at an abandoned trailer in Double Camp before her body was buried in a nearby shallow grave. Lecco's defense attorney, Amy Austin, who refers to Lecco's former co-defendant, Valerie Friend as a "thug," is attempting to prove she and Patricia Burton killed Collins for many reasons but not because Lecco told them to or gave them cocaine. Austin says Burton and Friend were jealous of Collins. However, prosecutors say Lecco had Collins killed to protect a cocaine ring which operated out of his Pizza Plus restaurant.
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