GALLEGO v. STATE

No. 15932.

711 P.2d 856 (1985)

Gerald Armond GALLEGO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 20, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Bork, State Public Defender, Fitz-Simmons, Lambrose & Perkins, Carson City, for appellant.

Brian McKay, Atty. Gen., Carson City, and Richard A. Wagner, Dist. Atty., Lovelock, for respondent.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Two young women, Stacey Redican and Karen Twiggs, disappeared from a shopping mall in Sacramento, California, on April 24, 1980. Their brutalized bodies were discovered on July 27, 1980 in shallow graves in remote Limerick Canyon, Nevada. The hands of both girls were trussed with an uncommon variety of macrame rope. An autopsy revealed that both victims suffered violent deaths caused by multiple blows to the head with a hammer or hammer...

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