(KTLA) – A notorious killer serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of four men in Los Angeles County reportedly strangled his wife to death during a conjugal visit late last year.
David Brinson had been serving four consecutive life sentences most recently at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, in Northern California’s Amador County, where he is also accused of killing his wife.
Conjugal visits, also referred to as “family visits,” are held in a private, apartment-like facility on prison grounds, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s website. The visits are restricted to immediate family members, including legal spouses, parents and children, and last around 30 to 40 hours.
Officials with the CDCR said that around 2 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2024, Brinson told prison officers that his wife, 62-year-old Stephanie Brinson, had passed out, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Prison staff attempted lifesaving measures, but the 62-year-old woman was declared dead just before 3 a.m.
According to reporting from The Independent, the county's coroner confirmed, some four months after her death, that Stephanie Brinson was strangled to death.
Todd Riebe, Amador County District Attorney, confirmed to the LA Times that he's awaiting the prison's full report before filing charges.
Crude details emerge in racism, sexism scandal rocking L.A. Police DepartmentBrinson was sentenced to prison in 1994 for the June 1990 murders of four men in Los Angeles, including retired tavern owner Robert Marks, 59.
At his trial, witnesses testified that Brinson believed the former tavern owner was a well-connected cocaine dealer when he showed up at Marks' garage apartment with a gun and two accomplices hoping to rob Marks for drugs and money, the LA Times reported at the end of the 1994 trial.
Witnesses testified that Brinson, after searching the apartment and finding only a scant amount of marijuana, shot Marks and three other men — Gene McCullars, 28, Celedino Ligtas, 33, and William Terry, 27 — who had gathered at the apartment to watch a basketball game.
They were all shot execution-style as they laid face down on the floor of the bedroom.
Brinson, now 54, has since been transferred to the California Health Care Facility in Stockton, a state prison for incarcerated patients with long-term medical or acute mental health needs.
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