Friday, March 25, 2011

Saginaw, MI: New charge comes down in Kevin Amos murder case

Thursday, March 24, 2011

SAGINAW (WJRT) -- (03/24/11)--One brand-new charge came down Thursday for a Saginaw man just sentenced Wednesday in a 2002 murder.

Patrick Martin was convicted and found guilty of first-degree murder last month and sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday in the violent suffocation death of 19-year-old Kevin Amos.

Thursday afternoon, Martin was charged in the death of his former girlfriend, Debra Kukla. Kukla was found dead in the garage of her Bay City home in June 2009. She had beaten to death.

Martin was living with Kukla at the time.

Martin was charged in court Thursday with one count of open murder. Bay County's prosecutor says they just recently obtained some very helpful information -- a disclosure, he says, from Martin's close family member.

That, along with his recent conviction, helped them get to the charge. Kukla's family was in court Thursday afternoon.

Martin is expected back in court in this case early next month.

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