A one-time family friend who stabbed a teen to death in a bloody melee involving knives and a samurai sword in Murrieta pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Friday and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. William Gary Simpson Jr., 22, had been facing the death penalty in the Dec. 20, […]
Tag Archives: Saskia Burke
The defeat of Proposition 34 is good news for those of us all around the nation who are pulling for Catherine Burke and her family to get justice in vicious slaying of their 18 year old daughter Saskia. It means that the death penalty is still on the table for her 19 year old killer, […]
His attack started a landslide upon our lives, that has left us upside down and backwards and inside out! We here, at this site, all know what an impossible task it is to live beyond murder! For our family? – We can never unbury ourselves from the rubble!” – Catherine Burke ” Now, because he can […]
Simpson’s attack started a landslide upon our lives, that has left us upside down and backwards and inside out! We here, at this site, all know what an impossible task it is to live beyond murder! For our family? – We can never unbury ourselves from the rubble! Our son Ian and his best friend […]
Saskia went downstairs at 4am for a bottle of water. Simpson attacked her with a 15 inch knife, slashing and stabbing into her 9 times before before inflicting the fatal wound (stabbing the knife down through her neck to the hilt, sending all 15 inches of blade down through her chest ripping through her heart). […]
Our 18 year old daughter Saskia was viciously, violently stabbed to death here in our home December 20, 2011 by William Gary Simpson! Simpson grew up as a friend of our son’s, a friend of our family – we’d known him over 10 years! What we didn’t know until after his attack, is that he […]