former soldier was given two life sentences without parole Friday
Keven Graff avoided the death penalty for the gruesome double-murder in June 2004 after pleading guilty to two counts of murder. Defense lawyer Jennifer Friedman described Graff as "very, very mentally ill" at the time of the killings.Court records showed that the ex-marine killed writer Robert Lees, 91, and his neighbor, 69-year-old doctor Morley Engelson after breaking into their homes in Hollywood in June 2004.Graff attacked Lees with a meat cleaver, decapitated him and took the head with him before scaling a fence and entering Engelson's property where he bludgeoned and stabbed the elderly doctor to death.Along with the murder counts, Graff pleaded guilty to sexual penetration by a foreign object, torture, mayhem and first-degree residential burglary involving each of the victims.
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Sunday, 6 April 2008
Keven Graff given two life sentences for beheading a screenwriter and his neighbor in Hollywood.
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