Opinion ID: 1206820
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Heading: Idaho Press-Tribune

Text: A Sept. 21 preliminary hearing date was set Monday for a Caldwell couple accused of murdering a Caldwell man last week and later dumping his body into the Snake River. Donald Kenneth Fetterly, 26, and Karla Yvonne Windsor, 27, were formally charged with first-degree murder and robbery at an arraignment before Magistrate Marvin Cherin. Accompanying charges of committing a felony with the use of a deadly weapon were also filed against the pair. Cherin appointed the county public defender to represent the suspects. Public Defender Scott Fouser, who was present at the arraignment, told Cherin he wasn't ready to make a motion concerning bail for the couple. Fetterly was also served an outstanding warrant out of Twin Falls County. A charge of writing a check with insufficient funds has been filed against Fetterly there. No action was taken on the warrant. Fetterly and Windsor are charged in connection with the Sept. 7 stabbing death of Sterling Gene Grammer, 45, 1201 E. Elgin St. Police said Grammer died after he was stabbed several times in the chest with a short-bladed knife at his residence at about 9 a.m. Grammer's body, bound at the wrist and ankles and the head wrapped with duct tape, was discovered last Friday by two fishermen in the Snake River, about six miles downstream from the Walters Ferry Bridge. Fetterly and Windsor were arrested by police Saturday in southwest Nampa after they were spotted driving Grammer's pickup. Canyon County Sheriff's Office Operations Officer Dick Appleton said Saturday the suspects told investigators they entered Grammer's residence while he was away Tuesday night. Grammer was slain the following morning after he returned to the residence. Fetterly and Windsor were also formally charged Monday with taking two rings, a television, stereo, radio and .22 caliber pistol from Grammer's residence. All of the items were recovered by police at the time of the suspects' arrest. Both suspects told Cherin they are currently unemployed. Fetterly said he last worked two months ago on a ranch in Nevada.