Post by SoulTrainOz on Jun 27, 2006 20:58:13 GMT -5
Los Angeles County prosecutors they will seek the death penalty against a transient accused of decapitating a 91-year-old retired screenwriter and stabbing his neighbor to death.
Keven Lee Graff is accused of killing former screenwriter Robert Lees at his Hollywood home in June 2004. Lees, who was blacklisted during the Communist scare of the 1950s, had several film and television credits, including episodes of "Rawhide" and "Alfred Hitchthingy Presents."
Police say after the killing, Graff took the man's severed head, climbed a fence and stabbed to death 69-year-old Doctor Morley Hal Engelson.
Graff told the Daily News of Los Angeles that he was high on
methamphetamine and ecstasy at the time of the slayings and doesn't remember anything about that night.
(source: Associated Press)
Keven Lee Graff is accused of killing former screenwriter Robert Lees at his Hollywood home in June 2004. Lees, who was blacklisted during the Communist scare of the 1950s, had several film and television credits, including episodes of "Rawhide" and "Alfred Hitchthingy Presents."
Police say after the killing, Graff took the man's severed head, climbed a fence and stabbed to death 69-year-old Doctor Morley Hal Engelson.
Graff told the Daily News of Los Angeles that he was high on
methamphetamine and ecstasy at the time of the slayings and doesn't remember anything about that night.
(source: Associated Press)