CROWN POINT, Ind. — A judge sentenced a Lake County man to a hundred and eighty years in prison Friday for killing a woman and two teenage boys discovered bludgeoned to demise in 1998 in a house in northwest Indiana.James H. Higgason III, 52, of Whiting, used to be sentenced to a few phrases of 60 years every, to be served consecutively.
He used to be discovered in charge May 27 of homicide and murder during the fee of a theft. He has stated he's going to enchantment.
Prosecutors alleged Higgason and David Copley, 47, beat Elva Tamez, 36, Jerod Hodge, 18, of Chicago; and Timothy Ross, 16, of Calumet City, Illinois, to death on Jan. 18, 1998, on the girl’s Hammond home with items of wooden or metal pipes, courtroom data said. They were looking to get drugs and money, prosecutors mentioned.
The sufferers had their skulls bashed in a drug-fueled “frenzy,” Deputy Lake County Prosecuting Attorney Jovanni Miramontes has mentioned.
Defense attorneys Mark Gruenhagen and Matthew Fech mentioned the evidence against Higgason used to be skinny and Copley wasn’t credible because he reached a handle prosecutors in exchange for his testimony.
Copley pleaded to blame to Hodge’s murder remaining year and was once sentenced to 45 years in jail. In trade for his testimony, prosecutors dropped two other homicide fees.
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