California law enforcement officials are watching the sentencing hearing for convicted killer Joseph Duncan closely in expectation of eventually trying him for at least one murder there.
The Riverside County District Attorney’s office charged Duncan in January 2007 with a Beaumont, California boy’s death in April 1997. Anthony Martinez, 10, was forced into a car at knifepoint; his body was found 15 days later. Duncan has also been linked to the 1996 slayings of two young half-sisters in Seattle.
His federal sentencing hearing in Boise is entering into its second phase after jurors last week found him to be eligible for the death penalty in the abduction and molestation of two north Idaho children, and the killing of one of them. (AP)