Posted on 11/29/2006 11:51:45 AM PST by newgeezer
 A federal marshal escorts Danny Dean Slick (right), 27, of Charles City, from the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids on Monday after Slick pleaded guilty to lying in July 2005 to FBI agents investigating the disappearance of 5-year-old Evelyn Miller, who was found murdered days later. |
Danny Dean Slick, 27, faces up to five years in prison for giving “fictitious and fraudulent” statements in July 2005. Slick’s sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 20 in U.S. District Court in Sioux City.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Berry said Slick reached a plea deal in which he will not be prosecuted for the first of two counts of misleading authorities. Berry said Slick’s plea agreement contains a “cooperation provision.”
Slick, wearing a navy blue prison jump suit, spoke quietly and with few words on Monday, responding to U.S. Magistrate Judge John Jarvey’s questions with “yes” and “no” answers.
Slick was indicted and arrested in June, but released after pleading not guilty. He has been incarcerated since he was arrested again in August for violating terms of his release.
Family members said they were hopeful information in the 13-page, sealed plea document could bring authorities closer to arresting Evelyn’s killer.
“There has to be a reason for them to have sealed it,” said Brandi Hoffmann of Des Moines, who is Evelyn’s aunt. “I don’t think Dan Slick personally killed Evelyn, but I think he knows who did and what happened to her.”
Evelyn’s stepmother, Lindsey Christie of Waterloo, and Hoffmann’s mother, Sandy Kuykendall of Floyd, also sat through the approximately 20-minute hearing.
Court documents say Slick changed his story and tried to mislead FBI agents when they interviewed him at his Charles City residence on July 3, 2005.
According to Slick’s indictment, he initially told agents his roommate Randy Patrie, 33, was at their Charles City apartment for all but 10-15 minutes on July 1, 2005, after they stopped at Evelyn’s apartment to see her mother’s fiance at about 2:30 a.m., hours before she was reported missing.
In a second interview, the indictment said, Slick reported Patrie was gone for several hours and said Patrie said the next day that he went to get drugs from an acquaintance named “Porky.”
Slick admitted he lied to agents when he claimed to not know Porky’s name or address.
Special Agent Jim Wertz of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, who is the lead investigator on Evelyn’s case, and FBI Special Agent Randy Van Gent also attended Slick’s hearing.
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