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Indiana man gets 45 years in prison for cold case killing for cooperation against accomplice in triple murder
A person has been sentenced to 45 years in jail after admitting to serving to an confederate kill one in all three folks discovered bludgeoned to dying in 1998 in an Indiana house in change for cooperating with prosecutors.
David L. Copley Jr., 47, was sentenced by a Lake County Decide on Friday he pleaded responsible final yr to at least one rely of homicide within the dying of Jerod Hodge, 18, of Chicago. Prosecutors agreed to the sentence in change for Copley to testify towards James H. Higgason III.
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David L. Copley Jr. was concerned within the 1998 chilly case killings of three folks in an Indiana house, prosecutors stated.
(Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Authorities alleged the pair used items of wooden to beat Hodge, Elva Tamez, 36, and Timothy Ross, 16, of Calumet Metropolis, Illinois, to dying in January 1998, at Tamez’s Hammond, Indiana, house in an effort to get medication and money from them.
Higgason was sentenced to 180 years in jail in June for the deaths of all three victims. Copley stated Higgason instructed him to hit Hodge.
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Hodge was struck with a board as he slept. Copley stated he ran out of the home as Higgason bludgeoned Ross and Tamez.