NO ANGELS: The Short Life And Brutal Death Of Brandaline Rose Duvall

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Sue MacLennan didn't know it, but she had just had an extremely close brush with death. Gary Davis and Rebecca Fincham weren't out to give away clothes. The only things they had brought with them were a rope and a .22-caliber rifle. Davis and Fincham had intended to kidnap Sue and rape her, and the presence of the male ranch hand was the only thing that had saved her life. The main leader of the Deuce-Seven was a young man by the name of Francisco “Pancho” Martinez Jr, an ex-convict with a criminal record for drug abuse and assaulting numerous women. Other members of the gang included Danny “Bang” Martinez (no relation), Samuel “Zig Zag” Quintana, and Frank “Little Bang” Vigil. On July 30th, 1986, Virginia May was laid to rest in Byers Cemetery, in a ceremony at a local church which was attended by dozens of friends, family, and even strangers who wanted to show their respects. Among the attendants were Ginny's widower, Gary May, and their two young children. But, in 1986, their new life would come to a horrifying, gruesome end at the hands of two vile predators.

And there is only one reason death penalty opponents don't want a popular referendum on the issue: they know they will lose. They know they are wrong, and they know that their constituents know they are wrong. They know their movement promotes injustice and legitimizes evil. They know that they put the lives of murderers over the lives of innocents. And they just don't care. While Fincham awaited sentencing, her husband, Gary Davis, went on trial in Mesa County Court for the same crime, with the prosecution seeking the death penalty against him. First off this thread proves Chris2 to be the liar and a demagogue. He is twisting and ignoring facts. In 1974, Davis married a 17-year-old girl named Leona Coates, with whom he ultimately had three children, but this relationship was also doomed from the start. Coates later reported that Davis was mentally and physically abusive. He would often get drunk and beat her, and on at least one occasion he threatened her with a gun. Davis also tried numerous times to force Coates into a threesome with him and another woman, and became furious when she refused. Colorado's last execution was in 1997, and it was for a particularly gruesome crime. In fact, this crime may very well be one of the most disturbing cases I have ever studied. It was a brutal killing involving the kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of a young mother whose only crime in life was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.My job is to teach you to think like a lawyer. If you think like a lawyer, you craft your concerns around the letter of the law, not the emotional and sentimental fluff of your conscience. The law is a rational enterprise. Argument and reason are your tools. You are not moralists. You are not theologians. You are not philosophers. You are lawyers. You must learn to think like a lawyer. On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors, and by the concern, which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. [8] This was the final straw for Leona Coates. In 1982, she divorced Davis and won custody of their three children. Davis was later convicted of rape and sentenced to eight years in prison, of which he only served four. As part of his bid to convince Governor Roy Romer to grant him clemency, Gary Davis made a televised apology from death row to the family of Virginia May. The governor was not moved. But when Gary May returned home, all he found was his two children, terrified and shaken, and no sign of his wife. This was unusual. Even though Ginny had friends who lived nearby, it wasn't like her to leave the house unannounced, especially without her children.

Fincham stood next to Davis. "Do you think she's dead?", she asked. "I'll make sure", replied Davis. He reloaded his rifle and fired four more shots into Ginny's chest and pelvis. "She's as good as dead now", he quipped. These rumors only scratched the surface of Gary Davis' dark past. Had they known the full truth of who Gary Davis was, the residents of Byers might have forseen the horror that was to befall their little town. On one occasion, Davis even urinated towards the ranch while crowing "Come on, Virginia, baby! I'm here! Come to me!"Gary Davis' last hope was for the governor of Colorado to commute his sentence. Days before his scheduled execution, he made a televised apology to the May family, and filed a petition for clemency to Colorado governor Roy Romer, asking for mercy. The prosecution countered by playing a tape-recorded confession to the jury, in which Davis described the murder of Ginny May in gruesome detail - detail, the prosecutor said, that only the killer could know. Ad-Free episodes: Visit https://www.patreon.com/Murderish to join MURDERISH | Behind the Mic and get access to ad-free episodes. But the jury didn't buy Fincham's story. On June 20th, 1987, they convicted Rebecca Fincham of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Ginny May. Fincham's sentencing was set for August of 1987, and she faced a maximum sentence of life in prison. After the trial, several of the jurors who found Fincham guilty said that they would have sentenced her to death if they could. Behind a window, obscured by a large tan curtain, several witnesses sat in a nearby room. Among them was the prosecutor, Bob Grant; Ginny May's father, Rod MacLennan; and Ginny's brother, Dave.

And, although more than 20 years have passed since the perpetrator of this crime was executed, it serves as a window into the true depths of human depravity - a depravity that can only be appropriately punished with the ultimate sentence. In 1990, the Colorado Supreme Court denied Davis' petition for a new trial, and set Gary Davis' execution date for January 5, 1991. Claiming that he would rather die than spend the rest of his life in prison, Davis decided to drop his pending federal appeals and not fight his execution. On May 27, 1999, the panel unanimously voted to sentence Francisco Martinez Jr. to death by lethal injection for the murder of Brandy Duvall. Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092.Angela Metzger was determined not to let Brandy’s name fade into an obscure case mentioned in law textbooks. She wanted people to remember Brandy as a real person.