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September 16, 2004
Contact: Lynn
Kimbrough, 720-913-9025
WHITE PLEADS
GUILTY
Richard White
(DOB: 10-29-72) pleaded guilty in Denver District Court today in
connection with the murder of two women in Denver and the sexual
assault of three other women.
White pleaded guilty
to two counts of first-degree murder (F1) and three
counts of sexual assault with a deadly weapon (F2). As
part of the plea agreement, prosecutors will not seek the death
penalty against White and he will cooperate in the search for
the bodies of three other women that he claims to have killed.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Henry Cooper and Deputy District
Attorney Kerri Lombardi, the prosecutors on the case, as well as
Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter, discussed the terms of the
plea agreement with the family members of the murder victims and
the surviving sexual assault victims prior to today’s hearing.
They are expected to attend White’s sentencing.
White will return to
Denver District Court, division 16, on November 29, 2004 at 1:30
p.m. for sentencing. He faces mandatory life in prison without
parole on each of the two murder charges. He faces 16
years-indeterminate-to-life in prison on each of the sexual
assault charges.
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