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Arizona man, 22, faces DEATH PENALTY 'for ambushing and stabbing esthetician Lauren Heike, 29, FIFTEEN TIMES while she hiked' five months after he was released from prison
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | , 30 December 2023 | | Alex Hammer

Posted on 12/30/2023 9:59:39 AM PST by Beowulf9

Phoenix prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of fatally stabbing a 29-year-old woman on an Arizona hiking trail.

Maricopa County Attorney’s Office filed the notice of intent Friday around 5pm - a move the family of late Lauren Heike said they 'support' seven months after the brutal killing.

Zion Teasley, 22, is accused of stabbing the esthetician 15 times in the back and chest after stalking her on the Reach 11 trail in broad daylight in April.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; blackonwhitecrime; crime; hiking; maricopa; maricopacounty; murder
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To: Jeff Chandler

I second that (no pun intended).


21 posted on 12/30/2023 10:45:01 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: Twotone
One of many good reasons to never go off alone, however much you may enjoy the solitude.

I love hiking and have never felt the need to carry a weapon while out alone. I have now rethought that.

22 posted on 12/30/2023 10:48:14 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Twotone
I've gone hiking alone for over 40 years now. Guess I'm just lucky but my most harrowing experience was getting temporarily lost in a sudden snowstorm in New Hampshire in the dark back in the mid 1990s. The wet snow quickly obscured the trail markers I was following. I found my way back to my car thanks to a compass I carried and being able to maintain an easterly direction to find the north/south road I was parked on.

My point is these incidents are fortunately rare and that they should not dissuade solitary hikers any more than the prospect that you might get into a fatal accident while driving on an interstate highway.

23 posted on 12/30/2023 10:48:44 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,508,933 Truth | 87,456,907 Twitter)
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To: Beowulf9

faces the death penalty? He should already be dead. Really sick of the system protecting these psycho killers


24 posted on 12/30/2023 10:49:42 AM PST by Jonny7797
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To: SaveFerris

PICK ME THE CORRECT ANCESTRY——


25 posted on 12/30/2023 10:51:24 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Beowulf9

Defense lawyers should be liable when this happens, as should the judge. I would say that any judge who releases someone who then goes out and kills someone within the next year should be immediately removed from the bench. It’s malpractice. You shouldn’t get to feel good about yourself as a ‘bleeding heart’ when your actions have led to the death of someones child or loved one. Scummy judges with an agenda. Replace them with AI. Couldn’t be worse.


26 posted on 12/30/2023 10:52:48 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Beowulf9

I hate the way the Daily Mail writes their headlines, like it is so outrageous to think a perp could get the death penalty for brutally killing a woman!


27 posted on 12/30/2023 10:53:37 AM PST by Joann37
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To: Twotone

Add my voice to the chorus - I did a lot of solo hiking for decades. After the first time I was stalked (I think from the tracks it was a bear) I carried. After they “re-introduced” wolf packs I up-gunned. These days I just don’t solo hike wilderness trails and on close-to-home ones I carry. Sad fact is, the two-legged monsters are the real threat.


28 posted on 12/30/2023 10:54:09 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Chode; dfwgator

Steve Buscemi had all that cash, too, and could have easily paid for 1/2 the car.

Besides, you want your Ciera to be a different color than tan, anyways.

Be sure to get that TruCoat finish, though...


29 posted on 12/30/2023 10:57:28 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Beowulf9

In a case like this I cannot see why anyone would oppose the death penalty. He is a serial predator. His brain is not right, and we should neither feed him for 50 years nor risk that some future parole board lets him out of prison. We do not need him for anything.


30 posted on 12/30/2023 10:59:38 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Beowulf9

The modern trend of young beautiful women deciding to hike alone, just leaves me speechless. The modern girl boss, you go girl, etc. mentality has left American young women growing up in our society completely ignorant to the reality humans have known for thousands of years. And at the very moment young women are hiking in the wilderness alone, we have lead in millions of feral males from the third world.
Tragic… teach your daughters well.


31 posted on 12/30/2023 11:01:21 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up. And at the very moment young women )
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To: Beowulf9

Rabid animals should be euthanized.


32 posted on 12/30/2023 11:08:18 AM PST by Dave911
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To: Beowulf9

I remember hearing of a girl in Tulsa OK fifty three years ago who was murdered in such a fashion. Jogging out early one morning.


33 posted on 12/30/2023 11:09:10 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Dave911
Rabid animals should be euthanized.

But first, they should be spayed or neutered.

34 posted on 12/30/2023 11:15:52 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Sorry Joey, Meester Beeg Obrador is running the border now. You can get rid of Blinkey and Mayorkas.)
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To: Lockbox

Why aren’t the people who deemed him fit to return to society held accountable for their deadly error in judgment?


35 posted on 12/30/2023 11:17:09 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I’ve read many of these things, Manhattan, San Diego, Ca, Iowa, Arizona. On beaches, jogging, hiking, bike riding, all by themselves. That guy who beheaded those girls and threw their heads in the canals was in Arizona.


36 posted on 12/30/2023 11:19:42 AM PST by Beowulf9
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well for women we increasingly are targets.......men attack women, and women don’t attack men randomly, just for nothing...


37 posted on 12/30/2023 11:23:49 AM PST by cherry
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To: Beowulf9
women and girls are getting attacked and killed every single day....this girl was on an open trail within sight of houses and it was the middle of the day....

so we've got to the point where a young woman can't go outside anymore?...

this past week, there has been a number of males attacking and killing their wives, or exs or girlfriends...

the problem isn't women or girls.....

38 posted on 12/30/2023 11:27:28 AM PST by cherry
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To: SaveFerris

Just another son of Obeyme.


39 posted on 12/30/2023 11:41:20 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Reddy

Besides dangerous animals besides this one.


40 posted on 12/30/2023 11:41:41 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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