Richardson v. State

Benham, Justice.

William “AT Hamilton has not been seen since the early morning hours of August 15, 1998. Hours later, Hamilton’s house was damaged by a suspicious fire and his car and several bags of coins were missing. In the home, investigators found bloodstains on a bedroom’s ceiling and walls that were evidence of the infliction of severe blunt force trauma on a human being, but Hamilton’s body was never found. In 1999, appellant Rodney Richardson, the ex-husband of the victim’s girlfriend, was convicted of the malice murder of Hamilton, burglary, armed robbery, arson, and theft by taking.…