State v. Reed

STEPHAN, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his capital murder conviction, Section 565.001, RSMo 1978, for which he was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole for fifty years. We affirm.

The evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict is as follows. A woman’s body, later identified as Phyllis Seals’, was found in a vacant lot in the City of St. Louis on June 21, 1980. Her boyfriend, Larry Massey, was arrested for her murder, but was subsequently released because of a lack of physical evidence.

Approximately seven years later, defendant…