INMATE 054558 - BEATY, DONALD E.

On the evening of May 9, 1984, Christy Ann Fornoff, a 13-year-old news carrier, was collecting from her customers at the Rockpoint Apartments in Tempe. Beaty, who was the apartment custodian, abducted Christy and sexually assaulted and suffocated her in his apartment. Beaty kept the body in his apartment until the morning of May 11, 1984, when he placed it behind the apartment complex's trash dumpster.

PROCEEDINGS
Presiding Judge: Rufus Coulter, Jr
Prosecutor: Gregg Thurston
Start of Trial: May 8, 1985
Verdict: June 20, 1985
Sentencing: July 20, 1985  

Aggravating Circumstances
Especially heinous/cruel/depraved

Mitigating Circumstances
None

PUBLISHED OPINIONS
State v. Beaty, 158 Ariz. 232, 762 P.2d 519 (1988).