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.
A compilation of daily news articles from around the United States about deaths (including both people and animals) that appear to occur in the context of a past or present intimate relationship, focusing on 2009-present. (NOTE: this blog is limited to incidents that appear in the media and are captured by our search terms. We recognize this is not an exhaustive portrayal of all deaths resulting from intimate violence.) When is society going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?
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