State v. Pietrzak

Brown, A.C.J.

— After his conviction in a newsworthy trial for first degree murder, Stanley L. Pietrzak received an exceptional sentence. In the published part of this opinion, we hold for the first time that a defendant’s precrime statements can corroborate postcrime statements for purposes of establishing corpus delicti. On that basis and others discussed in the unpublished portion of this opinion, we affirm.

FACTS

Kelly Conway, a developmentally disabled resident in the same apartment building as Mr. Pietrzak, disappeared in November 1998. In April 1999, acting on a tip, police searched the…