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Dec 4, 2021 · In the end, a jury found him guilty of murder after about eight hours of deliberation. Roger was sentenced to 32 years in prison. Prison records indicate that he remains incarcerated at the Charles T. Terrell Unit in Rosharon, Texas.
Apr 5, 1999 · Skaggs is the defense attorney and Rerucha the prosecutor in the trial of Russell Henderson, who is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery in the fatal beating Oct. 6 of gay university student Matthew Shepard.
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Nov 17, 1998 · Roger Scaggs received a 32-year sentence Monday in a Texas court for the murder of his wife, former Tulsan Lou Ann "Penny" Ehrle Scaggs, the eldest daughter of the founder.
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Born Lou Anne Erhle on November 3, 1941, "Penny" got her nickname on the day she was born -- from the nuns at St. John's Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who recognized her father as the man who sold and serviced the penny gumball machine in the hospital lobby. Her sister Sharon was born in 1946, and twins Marilyn and Carolyn were born in 1950. Penny's...
According to Dr. Vincent DiMaio, chief medical examiner of Bexar County and a consultant to the District Attorney's office on this case, Penny was attacked from behind, possibly while sitting at the piano, and struck with a galvanized steel pipe that had exposed threading and a cap at one end. The first blow struck her right cheek, breaking her jaw...
While APD secured the murder scene and began its investigation, Roger Scaggs moved from the chair in his front yard into the home of his neighbors, the Bradys, where he sat wrapped in a blanket while talking with police. APD's Officer Thomas Sweeny said he twice observed Scaggs look up to see if police were watching him and then began "fake crying....
It was also around 3am on that Thursday morning, March 7, that the phone rang at Sarah Scaggs' house. Penny and Roger's only child Sarah, then 23, was asleep with her boyfriend, then 51, president of General Diagnostics, where Sarah works. She was startled by her father's announcement that he would be coming to Sarah's house for a "family conferenc...
When Penny's sisters were awakened from sleep on March 6 to the news of Penny's murder, they quickly met up to drive together in one car to their elderly parents' home to break the news in person. The sisters -- Marilyn Meucke, Carolyn Pittenger, and Sharon Fox -- all live with their respective husbands near one another and their parents in North T...
The next day, the Scaggs' pastor, Rob Harrell, made a visit first thing in the morning with Scaggs and Sarah at the Mullers' house where Scaggs was staying. When Harrell asked Scaggs if he wanted to talk a little about Penny, Scaggs declined. "I guess what we do now is start making plans," Scaggs offered. Harrell asked him if he was emotionally rea...
Friday morning, Sgt. Al Eells of APD met with a search team at a holding facility for Browning, Ferris International (BFI) which had confiscated the two Dumpsters from Scaggs' office and was holding them for the police. The Dumpsters were both full to bursting with construction trash, landscaping debris, and hundreds of identical, full garbage bags...
Although she never admitted it to anyone, it seems that Penny had begun to suspect Scaggs' relationship with Ferguson some time in the fall of 1995, when Penny came down with a case of pneumonia that eventually landed her in the hospital. Scaggs was out of town for most of her illness, visiting Penny only once in the hospital and providing little c...
Six hundred people turned out for Penny's funeral on Sunday, March 10, but only a handful made the trek to North Texas the following day to attend her burial, which Scaggs had told Pat Muller he didn't want to pay for or attend. (Eventually, however, he did both.) The Colemans were among those who made the trip and, although the family had agreed t...
The Scaggs case took two and a half years to come to trial -- finally beginning on Oct. 26, 1998 -- in part because the most damning evidence was DNA and fingerprints, which are subject to varying interpretations and expert opinions. When the trial finally began, it aired live nationally on CourtTV, and was featured nearly every day on the front pa...
May 4, 2000 · Appellant's wife, Penny Scaggs, was murdered in her West Austin home on March 6, 1996. She had been beaten to death with a pipe and then stabbed several times. The appellant, who was chief executive officer of an Austin company, claimed that he had dinner with her that evening then returned to work at 7:00 p.m.
Apr 3, 1988 · Black-and-white stills (both historic and what Mr. Skaggs called ''emulations,'' featuring the actor Matthew Modine) alternate with scenes in color, shot on a sound stage; flashbacks take us away...
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Jul 23, 2021 · Christopher Lee Goodwin, 49, was indicted on murder charges in 2019, years after an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation raised questions about the death of Jeffry Kelton Skaggs.
