BURBANK PAIR TO BE TRIED IN DEATH OF TEEN'S MOM.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer A Burbank teen-ager and her boyfriend were ordered to stand trial Friday on charges that they conspired to kill the woman's mother for financial gain. Burbank Municipal Court Judge Alan Kalkin set an Aug. 26 arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted date in Pasadena Superior Court for Amber Bray, 18, and Jeffrey Ayers, 21, after listening to two days of testimony at a preliminary hearing for the pair. Bray and Ayers, who once planned to marry, each are charged with one count of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Jan. 16 death of Bray's mother, 42-year-old Dixie Hollier. On Friday, prosecutors entered a letter into evidence which they claim Bray wrote to Ayers in November 1995, three months before the killing. In the letter, Bray detailed how they could spend the $310,000 windfall windfall An unexpected profit or gain. An investor holding a stock that increases greatly in price because of an unexpected takeover offer receives a windfall. she expected to receive upon her mother's death, said Lt. Larry Koch of the Burbank Police Department The Burbank Police Department is the police department serving Burbank, California. Tim Stehr became the Police Chief of the department on August 1, 2007. The previous chiefs were Thomas Hoefel, David Newsham and Glen Bell. . Bray's shopping list included a $20,000 Mustang mustang [Sp. mesteño=a stray], small feral horse of the W United States. Mustangs are descended from escaped Native American horses, which in turn were descended from horses of North African blood, brought to the New World by the Spanish c.1500. and $190,000 for a house in Riverside County, Koch said, adding she also budgeted a few thousand dollars for her mother's funeral. The letter, written on notebook paper, included a diagram diagram /di·a·gram/ (di´ah-gram) a graphic representation, in simplest form, of an object or concept, made up of lines and lacking pictorial elements. of the modest two-bedroom apartment where Bray lived with her mother and her younger sister and brother, Koch said. Hollier, a Warner Records employee, lived a modest lifestyle, and friends were shocked when police suggested that Bray had conspired to kill her mother for financial gain. Police said Bray and Ayers believed they would gain financially through her mother's death but have refused to disclose whether the pair expected an inheritance inheritance, in law inheritance, in law: see heir. inheritance, in biology inheritance, in biology: see heredity. inheritance Devolution of property on an heir or heirs upon the death of its owner. or a life insurance settlement. Ayers was arrested after police found him in the process of stabbing stab v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs v.tr. 1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something. 3. Hollier with an 8-inch kitchen knife, police said. Before the stabbing started, police said, Hollier had been shot and pistol-whipped. Amber Bray initially was brought in for questioning but placed under arrest a few hours after the slaying when police discovered evidence they said links her with plans to kill her mother. |
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