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Robert A. POYSON
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Robbery
Number of victims: 3
Date of murders:
August 13,
1996
Date of birth:
August 15,
1976
Victims profile: Roland Wear,
50; Leta Kagen, 30, and her son Robert Delahunt, 15
Method of murder:
Shooting
- Beating with a rock and a cinder block
Date of Birth: August
15, 1976
Defendant: Hispanic
Victim: Caucasian
Leta Kagen (30), Leta's 15-year-old
son, Robert Delahunt, Roland Wear (50) and Bobby Poyson (20) lived in a
remote area of Mohave County.
On August 13, 1996, Frank
Anderson (48) and Kimberly Lane (15) had been hitchhiking in the area,
and Leta agreed to let Anderson and Lane spend the night. Anderson,
Poyson, and Lane decided to kill Leta, Robert, and Roland, and steal
Roland's truck.
Lane enticed Robert into a
travel trailer on the property, where Anderson cut Robert's throat
nearly from ear to ear with a bread knife. Anderson held the struggling
boy down, while Poyson pounded the bread knife through Robert's ear, and
out his mouth. Poyson finally ended Robert's struggling by crushing his
skull with a rock.
Three to four hours later,
Anderson and Poyson entered Leta's mobile home, and Poyson killed her by
shooting her in her head with a rifle, as Anderson held a lantern for
light. Roland awoke, and Poyson shot him in his mouth.
Poyson then hit Roland with the
rifle stock, and Anderson hit him with the lantern. Roland and Poyson
struggled out into the yard, where Poyson bludgeoned Roland to death
with a cinder block.
PROCEEDINGS
Presiding Judge: Honorable
Steven F. Conn
Prosecutor: Derek Carlisle
Defense: Billy K. Sipe and Lee Novak
Start of Trial: March 2, 1998
Verdict: March 9, 1998
Sentencing: November 20, 1998
Aggravating Circumstances:
Pecuniary Gain (all 3 victims)
Multiple Homicides (all 3 victims)
Especially Cruel (Robert and Roland)
