GUILTY MO - Stephen Rash, 63, dies in contract killing, Springfield, 5 Dec 2008

Kathee said:

It appears that Greene County prosecutors have entered into a plea deal with Troy Christiansen for last December's murder of an elderly Springfield man.

In exchange for his guilty plea, 29 year-old Christiansen, who was placed on supervised release from the Greene County jail today, will get 10 - 15 years behind bars for his part in Stephen Rashs murder---and it looks like he will be called to testify against his co-conspirators.

http://crimesceneinvestigations.blogspot.com/2009/10/greene-county-update-prosecutors-enter.html

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Theresa Rash submitted an Alford plea to the amended charge of second-degree murder... Per a plea agreement, Theresa Rash was sentenced to 25 years in prison....

Rusty Amoss was found guilty of murdering Steven Rash after a bench trial earlier this month. Judge Thomas Mountjoy sentenced him to life in prison.

William Reed was also sentenced to life in prison in March after a bench trial before Judge Calvin Holden.

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Rejecting the argument that defendant Jeff Bloom lacked the mental ability to help plan the 2008 murder of Stephen Rash, a Greene County judge sentenced the 51-year-old to 25 years in state prison...

According to court documents and past testimony, Bloom was having an affair with Theresa Rash - Stephen Rash's wife - when the pair, along with Theresa Rash's daughter and her boyfriend, compiled a list of people they wanted "taken out."

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