Legal Opinion
Gallego v. State
Nevada Supreme Court
Decided December 20, 1985No. 15932PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Two young women, Stacey Redican and Karen Twiggs, disappeared from a shopping mall in Sacramento, California, on April 24, 1980. Their brutalized bodies were discovered on July 27, 1980 in shallow graves in remote Limerick Canyon, Nevada. The hands of both girls were trussed with an uncommon variety of macrame rope. An autopsy revealed that both victims suffered violent deaths caused by multiple blows to the head with a hammer or hammer-like object.
According to the State’s primary witness, Charlene Williams (aka Charlene Gallego), defendant had her entice the two victims into a van…
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