![]() Cox as his best friend, stated that they spoke almost daily, and said that he was at her house about four days a week. During the first part of this interview, the defendant spoke to Detective Michael Hardesty for about 33 minutes. Beadle’s bedroom in a red substance that appeared to be blood.2 The defendant was asked to give a second interview. By the following day, Monday, May 12, examination of the crime scene had disclosed the defendant’s fingerprint on the door of Ms. Thereafter, Detective Humphrey took the defendant to the police station for an interview in which he answered general questions about the victims. Detective Jeffery Humphrey of the Bossier City Police Department (“BCPD”) talked to the defendant, who said that Ms. ![]() At some point that day, the defendant approached an officer outside the house and asked to speak to a detective. Law enforcement officers arrived and cordoned off the house with crime scene tape. She too had been shot in the forehead she also had several other gunshot wounds.1 Ms. Cox’s bedroom, where she discovered her body in bed under the covers. She had been stabbed several times and shot in the forehead. Beadle’s body on the floor under a comforter. ![]() Hanson went into her daughter’s bedroom, where she discovered Ms. She entered the locked residence with a key and found the dog confined in its crate in the kitchen and “going crazy.” After letting the dog go outside, Ms. Cox’s blue, four-door Chevy Cruze sedan was not. When she arrived, she noticed that her daughter’s car was there, but Ms. because she was worried about her daughter. Hanson went to the Bragg Street house at about 6:30 a. On Sunday, May 11, 2014, which was Mother’s Day, Ms. Washington, to see if they had heard from her. Hanson called several of her daughter’s friends, including Mr. Beadle not to call to check on her son and talk to him when he spent the night with his grandmother. Hanson tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to contact Ms. Beadle dropped her son off at the home of her mother, Joanna Hanson, where he spent the night. Cox had resided in the Bragg Street house for approximately a month she had a young daughter, whose custody she shared with the child’s father. Beadle, who had a young son, had lived there for about a year for seven to eight months of that time, her boyfriend, Shawn Washington, lived with her until they broke up in early 2014. FACTS In May 2014, Jacqueline Beadle and Karyl Cox were roommates who shared a one-story, three-bedroom house in the 3000 block of Bragg Street in Bossier City. We affirm the defendant’s convictions and sentences. He received consecutive sentences of life imprisonment without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. Butler, was convicted as charged of two counts of first degree murder. Following a bench trial, the defendant, Brandon S. SCHUYLER MARVIN District Attorney Counsel for Appellee ANDREW JACOBS JOHN MICHAEL LAWRENCE DOUG STINSON Assistant District Attorneys ***** Before MOORE, GARRETT, and THOMPSON, JJ. 205,973 Honorable Michael Nerren, Judge ***** LOUISIANA APPELLATE PROJECT By: Douglas Lee Harville Counsel for Appellant J. BUTLER Appellant ***** Appealed from the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Bossier, Louisiana Trial Court No. 53,360-KA COURT OF APPEAL SECOND CIRCUIT STATE OF LOUISIANA ***** STATE OF LOUISIANA Appellee versus BRANDON S. ![]() Application for rehearing may be filed within the delay allowed by Art. ![]()
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