When three armed suspects entered a Dollar Store around 5 p.m. June 16, 2001, the men assaulted a store clerk and murdered a 41-year-old customer. Phoenix Police Department detectives worked tirelessly to find those involved and what motivated the attack. For 11 years, the detectives’ case into the homicide went unsolved. It wasn’t until…
He baked in the early morning sun in the Dragoon Springs area of southeast Arizona, tending his wounds from four nights earlier. A deep slice in one of his palms. A large gash cut in his thigh to the bone. And worst of all, a flap of skin was all that held his left arm…
A jangle fills the room, overpowering the rattling air vent. Five men and one woman in striped inmate uniforms, “Cochise County Jail” on their backs and shackled limbs, enter Judge Wallace R. Hoggatt’s courtroom. The room silences. One inmate waves to a woman in the audience. She smiles. U.S. and Arizona flags stand tall on either side…
