The two murders to which Dieteman pleaded guilty were the only ones with which he was charged. “I’m confident that the county attorney will receive a conviction on the co-conspirator, and hopefully his life will be ended by the state,” Gordon said.
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“While it’s hard to say much that is good about a serial shooter case, this is probably as good a day as it could be,” he said, speaking alongside Thomas at the news conference. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon said the deal began to lift the lingering pall of the case from the victims and the rest of the Valley. The shooting also left him wary of walking outdoors at night, because that was the time of day he was shot.ĭavies said he hoped Dieteman would get the death penalty to endure some of the anxiety he has had to live with. Doctors considered it too risky to pull some of the pellets out, so he has to live with them, he said. “If that’s what they had to do to get Dieteman to testify against Hausner, then I’m all for it,” said Daryl Davies, a Phoenix man who survived one of the shootings.ĭavies said he still has shotgun pellets in his arm and abdomen from the May 31, 2006, shooting linked to the case. Thomas would not talk about what kind of testimony Dieteman agreed to give or how prosecutors convinced him to take the deal, but at least this much was clear: It brought relief, for now, for some of the victims. Horton was the person who first tipped off police to the identities of the men after Dieteman reportedly made a bar-stool confession to him. The case overall hit a speed bump recently when a key witness, Ron Horton, fell ill and died unexpectedly. The deal also “significantly strengthened” the case against Hausner, who has pleaded not guilty to his charges, Thomas said. The fact that he is cooperating in the case will be shown to the jury as a possible reason to spare his life, Thomas said. “One could construe this as him throwing himself on the mercy of the court,” said Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas at an afternoon news conference. Maricopa County prosecutors still plan to ask a jury to sentence him to death.īut if the jury decides to spare him, the 32-year-old will have to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole, according to the terms of the agreement.
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Samuel Dieteman confessed to the murders of Robin Blasnek of Mesa and Claudia Gutierrez Cruz of Scottsdale, each of whom were gunned down in random shootings in mid-2006.ĭieteman also said he would take the stand against his former roommate, Dale Hausner, who is scheduled for trial in September on seven first-degree murder charges and a host of others. One of the two suspects in the Valley’s Serial Shooters killing spree pleaded guilty to two murders and agreed to testify against his friend in a surprise deal announced Friday by prosecutors. Will Samuel Dieteman tell the truth? Or will Samuel Dieteman tell the jury a script given to him by the prosecutors in Andrew Thomas’s Maricopa Country Attorneys office? You can bet that Samuel Dieteman is going to say anything and everything he can to get his former buddy Dale Hausner convicted of murder and executed.
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