Opinion ID: 1281505
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Ryan Incident

Text: Defendant confirmed that on the evening of February 2, 1981, he met Ryan and some friends in El Dorado Park. He claimed to have been drinking all day and to have smoked more than one marijuana cigarette. At Big John's Pizza Parlor he drank more beer and smoked more marijuana. He was unsteady on his feet and dropped a glass of beer on the floor. Defendant claimed that Ryan had invited him to stop by her house later that night. He had some trouble with his van, however, and did not catch up with the group until Ryan had been dropped off at her house. He claimed that when he honked, Ryan came out; and defendant drove around the corner, parked, and they talked. This developed into voluntary vaginal and anal intercourse; [5] and defendant maintained that rug burns on Ryan's back were from their voluntary sexual activity in the back of his van. But as defendant prepared to take her home, Ryan unaccountably got mad and began kicking and screaming. Defendant grabbed her around the throat and mouth to stop her screaming, but when she stopped struggling he did not at first realize she was dead. Unsure of what to do, he finally drove to Millikan High School and, in dragging the body out of the van, Ryan's head hit the curb and he realized she was dead. He claims he singed her pubic hair with his Bic lighter [6] and cut up her stomach with a piece of glass he found in the area to make the body look different from Bristol's. Then as he drove home he tossed articles of her clothing out of the van. Defendant acknowledged that he might have bit her nipple during the time she was kicking and struggling. He admitted also that he had probably put a baseball bat into the vaginal and anal areas of both victims.