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Acquittal of Joyce Lukezic. Joyce Lukezic had been found guilty based entirely on circumstantial evidence during her first trial. Many courtroom observers agreed that the case against her had been weak. Merrill was the chief prosecution witness against her and he had once dated her when she was 16.
Joyce Lukezic was convicted of conspiracy to murder Patrick Redmond in 1982, based on the testimony of a convicted burglar who received immunity and benefits from the prosecution. She was granted a new trial in 1983 after the trial court found that the prosecution failed to disclose the benefits and altered the presentence reports of the key witnesses.
Nov 6, 1991 · Joyce Lukezic was one of the masterminds behind the 1980 killings of Pat and Marilyn Redmond and Marilyn's mother in Phoenix. She was convicted and acquitted twice, and later wrote a book based on her experience.
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Feb 18, 1990 · By Joyce Lukezic and Ted Schwarz. 342 pp. Far Hills, N.J.: New Horizon Press. $21.95. Feel awful for Joyce Lukezic. She has clearly been through hell. A suburban Phoenix housewife in her late 30's ...
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Few details are known about the Redmonds and their family, aside from the crime itself. They didn't appear to speak with news reporters at the time, and a representative for the family could not be reached for this story. William Redmond, who went by "Pat" to those closest to him, was born in Huntington, West Virginia. At some point, he lived in Oh...
The Republic in 1981 noted the Redmonds' single-story home on a cul-de-sacnear Seventh and Northern avenues was valued at $200,000, during a time when the median home value in Arizona was about $54,800. The home and neighborhood were described by the newspaperas "fashionable" in separate reports. Unnamed neighbors told The Republicthe Redmonds were...
Marilyn Redmond assumed guests were arriving early for the party and went to her bedroom to grab a pack of cigarettes and a bag of change for a game of cards. William Redmond, after answering the door, called out, "Marilyn, come here." She returned to see three men and a gun pointed at her husband. The couple and their mother were eventually ordere...
After the shootings, Marilyn Redmond remembered rolling off the bed and crawling to the family roomwith her hands still bound behind her back. She was covered in blood. "I knew that something had happened," she said in court months later. "My neck was stiff and I could hardly lift it very easily." Floyd and Verna Kelly, the first to arrive for the ...
Details of the contract killings trickled out through a series of hearings and trials over the next few years. Prosecutors argued Robert Charles Cruz, a Tempe businessman, masterminded the plot in an attempt to take over William Redmond and Ron Lukezic's business, Graphic Dimensions. Ron Lukezic's wife at the time, Joyce Lukezic, was also accused o...
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- Criminal Justice Reporter
Joyce Lukezic was convicted of conspiracy to murder Patrick Redmond, who was killed along with his wife and mother-in-law in 1980. The trial court granted her a new trial due to prosecutorial nondisclosure of state aid to key witnesses, and she appealed the denial of her motion to dismiss the indictment.
The tranquility of Joyce Lukezic's affluent Phoenix neighborhood was shattered by the violent deaths of two residents. Joyce, a young housewife, was arrested. Thus began a two-year nightmare for Joyce, who would see her calm world destroyed and buried beneath lies and deceit by her friends, her husband, and even the police and prosecutors who were supposed to protect her rights.
