GUILTY CA - Susie Ko, 55, fatally stabbed in home invasion, Hercules, 5 Oct 2012

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I swear I've searched for this case and could not find a match, lol.....if it is a dup, please combine.....

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=8845159

HERCULES, Calif. -- Police confirmed Friday a married couple is suspected in the killing last week of a Hercules woman after the pair were arrested in Washington state Wednesday with the woman's stolen car following an alleged month-long crime spree.

Hercules investigators identified Southern California residents Darnell Washington, 25, and Tania Washington, 25, as suspects in the Oct. 5 killing of 55-year-old Susie Ko after reviewing evidence from Ko's stolen car and interviewing the pair over the past two days in Kings County, Wash., Detective Connie Van Putten said...............

Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say that on Aug. 28, Darnell Washington escaped from San Bernardino County Jail with the help of his wife..........
 
On the third floor of the A.F. Bray Courthouse Tuesday, prospective jurors were everywhere. (...)

But inside the adjacent courtroom, Department 13, the mood was much more tense. Defendant Darnell Washington, charged with murder, carjacking, burglary and robbery in the county's first death penalty case in years, is considered a high-escape risk. He reportedly broke out of a San Bernardino jail in 2012, going on a months-long crime spree, and tried to break out of the Martinez Detention Facility after he was arrested and charged with murder.


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Jury selection on the case is in its third week, and prosecutors estimate that Washington's trial will begin in early July. He has been charged with the murder of Susie Ko, 55, a Hercules resident who was found dead inside her home in 2012. Washington's wife, Tania Washington, was charged in the case as well. She pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and has been sentenced to 23 years.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area...ath-penalty-trial-begins-man-accused-escaping
 
A month before Hercules resident Susie Ko was found dead inside of her home, the apparent victim of a carjacking, a Southern California woman had an eerily similar interaction with Ko's alleged killers.

Darnell Washington, 28, is on trial facing capital murder charges in Ko's death. Prosecutors say that Washington, who had escaped from San Bernardino County Jail more than a month earlier, stabbed Ko 21 times on Oct. 5, 2012, while stealing her car to use as a getaway vehicle.

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On Wednesday, a South El Monte woman took the stand and recounted her interaction with Darnell and Tania Washington, which occurred on Sept. 2, 2012, five days after Darnell Washington's escape from jail, and minutes after a shootout with police at a busy intersection.
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/breakin...trial-womans-account-mirrors-homicide-victims
 

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