State v. Doerr

OPINION

ZLAKET, Chief Justice.

¶ 1 At approximately 10:00 a.m. on September 24, 1994, two Phoenix police officers responded to a “check welfare” dispatch following a 911 call. Upon arriving at a bungalow-style apartment, they found the front door ajar and a disheveled Eugene Doerr sitting on the coffee table in the living room. He wore only shorts and was covered with blood.

¶ 2 When asked what had occurred, Doerr replied: “I don’t know. I woke up with this-with a dead body back there.” In a bedroom doorway, Officer Wirth found a naked woman lying in a pool of blood. Detecting no pulse, he…