State v. Luff

Melvin L. Resnick, Judge.

This matter is before the court on appeal from the Lucas County Common Pleas Court wherein appellant, Ronald Boyd Luff, was convicted on five counts of aggravated murder with specifications and four counts of kidnapping. The facts giving rise to this appeal are as follows.

At the age of eight, Ronald Boyd Luff was baptized into the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints (“RLDS”), a form of Mormonism centered in Independence, Missouri. Growing up in Missouri, Luff remained a loyal and active member of the RLDS. As a young man he became disenchanted with the church…