Post by Anja Nieser on Oct 1, 2006 5:35:49 GMT -5
2nd-time killer gets life sentence
Dean Geldrich won't get a chance to claim a 3rd victim.
Geldrich, 40, of Middletown, was sentenced to life in prison without
parole in the January torture death of his roommate, Miranda Ruth Lint. He
had faced a possible death sentence.
Lint was the 2nd person Geldrich had duct-taped, beaten and killed.
Geldrich had spent 14 years in prison for the 1986 killing of Henry
Gibson, 46, of Hamilton.
Although the Gibson case could not be used against Geldrich in the Lint
trial, the 2 slayings bore chilling similarities, Butler County Assistant
Prosecutor Craig Hedric said after the sentencing.
Both Lint and Gibson had been bludgeoned with a club while bound with duct
tape. Geldrich partially blamed both victims for causing their own deaths.
And Geldrich strangled Gibson to death and tried to strangle Lint, 28, who
bled to death from knife wounds.
Hedric had compiled a poster listing 20 similarities in the 2 cases, but
legal rules prevented that information from being used as evidence in
Geldrich's trial in Butler County Common Pleas Court.
A 3-judge panel, which convicted Geldrich of kidnapping and aggravated
murder, cited his history of mental illness as a major factor in their
decision to spare his life. But the judges said the seriousness of the
crime against Lint warranted a life term with no parole.
Geldrich's mother sobbed as the decision was read. Lint's mother, Tina
Lint, had said she wanted Geldrich to get the death penalty. She was not
present at sentencing.
Geldrich's lawyers, Melynda Cook-Reich and Chris Pagan, had presented
mental evaluations showing their client suffered from bipolar disorder and
was not taking his prescribed medicine.
(source: The Enquirer)
Dean Geldrich won't get a chance to claim a 3rd victim.
Geldrich, 40, of Middletown, was sentenced to life in prison without
parole in the January torture death of his roommate, Miranda Ruth Lint. He
had faced a possible death sentence.
Lint was the 2nd person Geldrich had duct-taped, beaten and killed.
Geldrich had spent 14 years in prison for the 1986 killing of Henry
Gibson, 46, of Hamilton.
Although the Gibson case could not be used against Geldrich in the Lint
trial, the 2 slayings bore chilling similarities, Butler County Assistant
Prosecutor Craig Hedric said after the sentencing.
Both Lint and Gibson had been bludgeoned with a club while bound with duct
tape. Geldrich partially blamed both victims for causing their own deaths.
And Geldrich strangled Gibson to death and tried to strangle Lint, 28, who
bled to death from knife wounds.
Hedric had compiled a poster listing 20 similarities in the 2 cases, but
legal rules prevented that information from being used as evidence in
Geldrich's trial in Butler County Common Pleas Court.
A 3-judge panel, which convicted Geldrich of kidnapping and aggravated
murder, cited his history of mental illness as a major factor in their
decision to spare his life. But the judges said the seriousness of the
crime against Lint warranted a life term with no parole.
Geldrich's mother sobbed as the decision was read. Lint's mother, Tina
Lint, had said she wanted Geldrich to get the death penalty. She was not
present at sentencing.
Geldrich's lawyers, Melynda Cook-Reich and Chris Pagan, had presented
mental evaluations showing their client suffered from bipolar disorder and
was not taking his prescribed medicine.
(source: The Enquirer)