Posted on 11/21/2007 7:51:17 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
Shows how extremely dangerous this guy is and how wrong JUDGE TUTTMAN was!
Graham couple gunned down without warning
Brian and Beverley Mauck are seen in a family photo.
YouNewsTV™Story Published: Nov 20, 2007 at 1:39 PM PST
By KOMO Staff
TACOMA, Wash. — Pierce County prosecutors on Tuesday filed aggravated murder charges against the man accused of killing a young couple in their Graham home.
Daniel Thomas Tavares Jr. pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry the possibility of the death penalty. He’s being held without bail. Prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to seek the death penalty.
According to a statement of probable cause filed in court, Tavares admitted to detectives that he shot Brian and Beverly Mauck last weekend in their home and tried to cover up the crime.
The court documents state that Tavares said he went to collect a $50 debt from Brian Mauck on Saturday morning and became upset when Mauck insulted him.
Tavares, 41, said he wasn’t going to put up with being called a name “after spending 20 years in prison” and shot Brian in the face with a .22-caliber handgun, according to the documents.
Investigators said Beverly Mauck witnessed her husband’s killing and tried to run away, but Tavares chased her down and shot her in the head. He dragged her body to where her husband was lying, placed her body over his and covered them both with a blanket because “he respected them,” court papers said.
Fingerprint experts found a bloody palm print from Tavares on the front door of the Mauck’s home, and shoe prints that match the unique tread design of a pair of shoes owned by Tavares.
Daniel Tavares initially told investigators he heard gunshots while he was in bed with his wife at their home.
He also described two men and a red truck he said he saw outside. “These various statements were later acknowledged to be lies,” Deputy Prosecutor Gerald T. Costello said in the charging papers.
Daniel Tavares is also charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm. He was forbidden to have a gun as a condition of his parole. He served 16 years in Massachusetts for manslaughter in the 1991 stabbing death of his mother.
Taveres’ wife, Jennifer Tavares, was arrested for allegedly helping cover up the crime. Court documents indicate she told detectives that her husband was with her at the time the Maucks were killed, but later admitted to investigators that her husband was gone for about 20 minutes and he told her what he’d done.
She also told detectives that her husband threw the murder weapon off a cliff. Jennifer Tavares was charged Tuesday with rendering criminal assistance, a gross misdemeanor. She pleaded not guilty and posted $5,000 bail.
Brian Mauck worked for an Auburn air conditioning company and Beverly Mauck had a job as a clerk at a car dealership in McKenna.
“They’re great people, they have a lot of friends, they have strong family ties. A lot of people we asked, they can’t find a bad thing to say about them,” said sheriff spokesman Ed Troyer.
Troyer said they had “the unfortunate luck of having this guy land next to them.”
The Maucks were found dead on the morning of Nov. 17, in the living room of their home, with three close-range gunshot wounds to each of their heads, court papers said.
In court Tuesday, family and friends said they wanted Brian and Beverly remembered for how they lived.
“They both have a smile that resonates throughout the world,” said Brian’s sister Jennifer Heilbrun.
“They have lived more in their short lives than most people live in their entire life,” added Bev’s mother, Karen Slater.
A public memorial service for the Maucks will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the new Federal Way Community Center.
The families of ask that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to Violent Crime Victims Services at 1501 Pacific Avenue, Suite 201, Tacoma, WA 98402.
Stop worrying about the firearms, get serious and deal with those who use them.
Thanks for posting these pictures. It’s a terrible shame that this couple lost their lives because of her. Why does she remind me of Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This liberal judge is almost as guilty of this crime as the disgusting maniac she freed. The maniac will spend the rest of his life in prison (WA is too liberal to execute this kind of scum); the good judge will not even face a reprimand pointing out her gross negligence. How is this judge’s action not equivalent to manslaughter? But she’ll sit on the bench for years and years to come, letting more and more murderers, and molesters, and rapists walk free to maim and kill again. Because she feels sorry for them. For the real victims and their grieving families she obviously can’t spare the same sympathy and concern.
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Well said... We get to pay with our lives in some cases for the idealistic bubble in the sky decisions these judges make! I doubt she had any thought for how dangerous he was because she fealt so good about letting him go.
Where in the world do they drag up these looney tune judges. She doesn’t look like she has sense enough to pull up her socks, let alone do anything in the legal profession.
BTTT
Sorry, but I don’t think someone who stabbed their mother to death should ever be out of prison, even more so since he had such a troubled history while incarcerated.
I am a firm believer in the death penalty. It might or might not serve as a deterrent, new studies would appear to indicate that it does, but I want it for the punishment component. It it also serves as a deterrent then that’s just serendipity. After all, it’s call capital punishment, not capital deterrence!
Depending on the evidence in this case it shouldn’t be more than 30 days until this man is executed. Period.
Nothing to be sorry about as far as I can see. Singing to the choir bro...8>)
I think it will be pretty hard, if not impossible to get the death penalty here (Washington State). Gary Ridgeway - the Green River Killer killed 20+ girls but got a plea bargain of Life because he did so many that were still unsolved and they were able to close the cases for the victims’ families based on his help. The argument goes - Hey, if Ridgeway didn’t get the death penalty, well MY client surely doesn’t deserve it.
However, I read in the local rag a day or so ago where this murderer was SUPPOSED to go (be taken to?) Florida for sentencing/trial upon his release from prison. It was related to an arrest before he killed his mom. Maybe Florida can figure out a way to execute this guy. (Committing a murder while on bail on a Florida arrest or something. One could hope!)
Romney nominated hte judge years ago. Just on the news now Romney said although she was nominated as a law and order judge, she obviously has showed a lack in judgement and she should resign.
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