4 Marines Plead Not Guilty to Murder of Fellow Soldier and his Wife
 

MURRIETA, Calif. – Four Camp Pendleton-based Marines, including one known as "Psycho," have pleaded not guilty in the execution-style slayings of a fellow Marine and his wife.

Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24, and his wife, Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, were found gagged, tied and shot in the head in the living room of their Winchester home on Oct. 15. Investigators said the house had been ransacked and a fire had been set, an apparent effort to destroy evidence.

The not guilty pleas were entered Thursday at Superior Court by Lance Cpl. Emrys John, 18, of Maryland; Lance Cpl. Tyrone Miller, 20, of North Carolina; Pvt. Kevin Cox, 20, of Tennessee, and Lance Cpl. Kesaun Sykes, 21, of California.

John and Miller worked for Pietrzak, who was a helicopter airframe mechanic.

Miller, Cox and Sykes, known as "Psycho," told police they went to the home to rob Pietrzak. All four said his wife was sexually assaulted, according to an investigator's affidavit.

The Marines are charged with two counts of first-degree murder and special-circumstance allegations of committing multiple murders, committing the crime during a robbery and rape by instrument.


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I heard about this on Concrete Loop. So sad. :(

I read about this on Digg a while back.

I wonder if any of these guys (or maybe all of them?) went to Iraq, and how many will use a mental disease or defect defense.

I guess we'll have to see it play out.

I've heard it maybe based on race. They were supposely didn't like the Sgt. (who is white) and they didn't like the fact that his wife was black. All of the suspects are black.

If race is the motive or not, this is still a sad case. They were only married two months before they died. :(

This is just wrong. How can they go before a court and out and out lie? Who was it then? The boogie man?

They tore off her clothing, raped her with an object, and killed her and her husband. The woman had been sitting at her table writing thank you notes for her wedding gifts and these idiots broke into her home where she and her husband were supposed to be safe. I hope they rot in jail.

I agree