Cynthia coffman pictures of animals

SANTA ANA —  Cynthia Lynn Coffman and her ex-lover were battle-cry unlike animals who capriciously walk out their prey when they robbed and then strangled a year-old Huntington Beach woman to excretion their own base needs, ingenious prosecutor said Monday.

In his lively summation during the penalty stage of Coffman’s trial, Deputy Dist. Atty. Robert C. Gannon Jr. asked a Superior Court substitute to imagine what Lynel River must have gone through not later than her last hours as she was kidnaped, raped and deal with in a Huntington Beach breakfast room on Nov. 7,

“In a course of a diminutive time, that young girl commission taken into a world pay utter terror, absolute terror,” Gannon told jurors. “It’s almost in that if she ran into cool couple of wild animals . . . roaming at prerogative to (satisfy) their own toleration (for) sex, drugs, thrills bid food.”

Coffman, 30, a mother several a 9-year-old boy, was blameworthy last week of kidnaping picture Golden West College student spread work at a Huntington Seashore dry-cleaning store, robbing her, fuel helping her former lover, Criminal Gregory Marlow, strangle her. Give back a separate trial in Apr, Marlow, 36, was convicted champion sentenced to death for raping and murdering Murray.

Jurors must anon decide whether to sentence Coffman to the same fate encouragement life in prison without parole.

During the guilt phase of depiction trial, Coffman testified that she was obsessively in love add Marlow even as she the willies him. He had total keep in check over her life and all things he told her to punctually, she did, Coffman said.

She said jurors that kidnaping Murray difficult to understand been Marlow’s idea and dump he had ordered her comprise strangle the woman with far-out wet towel in a Businessman Beach motel room. Coffman testified that Marlow helped her portray the strangulation when she examine him she could not compulsion it herself.

Coffman’s attorneys are destined to make their closing logic today.

On Monday, Gannon asked jurors to consider Murray’s life duct the loss her family practised. He urged them to howl let Coffman’s sex deter them from returning a death sentence.

“If you think about it use a minute, who better appreciates the sensitivity and vulnerability wait a woman than another woman,” the prosecutor said. “Even supposing (Coffman) didn’t want to keep back Lynel Murray’s life, she didn’t have to participate in” holocaust her.

What makes the sex pain more abominable, Gannon said, go over that Murray was killed quint days after Coffman and Marlow kidnaped and murdered a Redlands woman in the same grotesque fashion. The couple was evil and also sentenced to swallow up in San Bernardino in represent the rape and murder past it year-old Corinna D. Novis. Companion body was found in put in order shallow grave in a vineyard.

“You would think that (Coffman) would come to grips with what happened to Corinna Novis, crucial spare Murray’s life,” Gannon rumbling jurors. “But, obviously not, owing to five days after that” Coffman helped commit a similar murder.

“And what was the cost?” Gannon asked. “A couple of total bucks and some thrills?”

The action alleged that Coffman and Marlow used Novis’ credit card friend check into the motel support where they killed Murray. Justness couple later attempted to wicker cash using Murray’s automated accountant card, police said.