Las Vegas Jury Sentences Man to Death
Last Wednesday a Clark County jury sentenced convicted murderer Thomas Richardson to death for the 2005 killing of 91-year-old Estelle Feldman and her grandson, Steven Folker. Richardson was convicted of robbing them as well, netting $400. The killing was carried out with a claw hammer.
The most damning testimony in the trial came from Richardson’s girlfriend’s son, Robert Denhart, who allegedly helped him with the murders. In exchange for the testimony and his guilty plea to first-degree murder in Las Vegas, Denhart will probably receive a prison sentence of twenty-four to eighty years.
First-degree murder in Las Vegas is one of the few Nevada crimes that potentially carries the death penalty. The appeals process may take ten years or more.
