Legal Opinion
State v. O'CONNELL
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided February 21, 1979No. 61172PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.
Defendant Thomas Joseph O’Connell appeals from judgments imposing concurrent life sentences for the second-degree murder of his wife Carole and first-degree murder of his daughter Colleen. We affirm.
The bodies of Carole and Colleen were discovered in their burning mobile home on the morning of March 29, 1977. Defendant had left for work about two hours before the fire was discovered. The jury could have found the burn time of the mobile home was at least two hours. An autopsy indicated Carole had been killed by strangulation before the fire was set and that…
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