Posted on 05/10/2008 9:19:16 PM PDT by KJC1
Associated Press Article Launched: 05/09/2008 03:45:37 PM PDT
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A man who cut out his girlfriend's tongue and let her bleed to death has been given a life sentence without chance of parole. The Orange County judge who sentenced Frank Mallory on Friday called it an unjustified and extraordinarily brutal murder.
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Its not the chair but life without parole, we’ll take it.
May he be a 300 pound lifer's "girl friend" for the rest of his life.
Obviously, there's no such thing as a life sentence without a chance of parole. The only way to assure the protection of the public from such monsters is to execute them.
There's no difference in the peoples republic, they never execute anyone there.
California, for all its communist leanings, executes about 1 monster per year.
Can we do a special fundraiser to have this creature shanked in prison? There’s always someone on the inside whose Auntie needs an operation.
Maybe with his tongue surgically removed.
He’s more apt to have his teeth knocked out.
Agreed.
People have become numb to atrocity.
That state (state of my birth & upbringing) is so morally bankrupt that, not only can't they afford a sofa, they don't even have a chair to offer him.
T'were me running the world, I'd be live broadcasting the tossing of these scumbags off the Golden Gate.
How horrible! That poor, poor woman.
So, what's "life without parole" worth these days, like fifteen years?
can only hope that this a-hole becomes some inmate’s girlfriend in prison!!!
This guy was juiced out of his mind. There’s another article on it...He doesn’t recall doing it. I believe it. He said he strangled her, I believe that too. I’ve met guys like this when I was super broke many years ago..losers that ended up either beating their wife/gf when wacked out on booze/drugs or burning their house down. I knew then I had to get myself into a new circle of friends. You could just sense the evil in these people.
Frank Mallory said Patricia Dunthorpe, 35, took four types of prescription pills and drank a bottle of wine — and that he swallowed four Vicodin pills to counter pain from recent dental surgery — before going to sleep about 8 p.m. one night in late June 2005.
Saying he did not remember the exact night, the 50-year-old defendant testified that Dunthorpe was in a “loaded-type” state of mind and the two argued, but she was still awake when he went to sleep.
He said he awoke about 10 p.m. and thought Dunthorpe was “deceased” because of the pills and alcohol, but still went to her side of the bed and strangled her before going back to sleep.
Asked about the large amount of blood in the bed the next morning, Mallory said he was “surprised” by it.
Asked what he did with Dunthorpe’s tongue, Mallory said, “I have no knowledge of the tongue.”
The badly decomposed body of Dunthorpe, who died “on or about” June 25, 2005, was found by Mallory’s brother on July 16, 2005 in the garage of the home that Mallory and Dunthorpe shared.
Mallory took the stand after his attorney, Joseph Smith, gave defense opening statements in the trial, which began in late January.
Smith told the 10-woman, two-man jury that his client should be convicted “of a lesser charge than the charge brought by the prosecutor.”
He said outside the courtroom that he would ask for conviction on involuntary manslaughter under the argument that Mallory lacked “intent” to kill Dunthorpe.
Mallory testified that he and Dunthorpe argued the night she died about a $5,000 watch that she wanted him to buy, and that when he refused, as he had earlier, she belittled him and hit him in the face with a closed fist.
He said he pulled back and was not hurt, but admitted he was angry at Dunthorpe, who he met through Alcoholics Anonymous.
He also testified that on the night she died, Dunthorpe consumed Xanax and Zoloft, which she had in her possession, as well as pills he took for a back ailment, codeine and Valium. She also drank a bottle of wine, he said.
“I could tell she was in a loaded-type of state, after the medication and the wine,” he said.
Mallory said he took four Vicodin pills to control pain from recent dental surgery, and fell asleep for about two hours.
When he got up, “I was still feeling the medication and walked around to Patricia’s side of the bed and I do recall strangling her,” he testified. “There was no response. I assumed she had already expired from the pill usage and the wine usage. I went back to bed.”
In response to another question, Mallory said, “I was on top of her. I put my hands on her throat. I was angry because she belittled me. She was bitching because she wanted this watch.”
Mallory testified that he went to work the next day and that her body was still on the bed when he returned.
“I was panicky,” he said. “I vaguely recalled ... strangling her. I didn’t know what to do.”
He said that three days later, while wearing work gloves, he got her body “down to the garage.”
Mallory, who at the time was on probation for a DUI conviction and was wearing an ankle bracelet, said he planned to wait until the bracelet was to be taken off, in about two weeks, and then “was going to drive the body to the desert and bury her.”
He testified that he wrote in a diary that he kept as part of his DUI probation that Dunthorpe had gone to Utah.
He insisted under cross-examination by Senior Deputy District Attorney Larry Yellin that he knew nothing about Dunthorpe’s tongue being cut out, but admitted that when he woke up the next day, “there was plenty of blood” in the bed.
“It surprised me and I didn’t know what to do,” he said.
He testified that he used household cleansers to clean up the bed and that he continued to sleep in it before his arrest.
Yellin said outside the courtroom that the coroner testified earlier that Dunthorpe died from loss of blood, not from strangulation. And while she had a “stew of drugs and alcohol” in her system, she was not dead, but was probably unconscious or in a coma, when killed, he said.
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