Chad Lee was sentenced to death by the State of Arizona for the murder of Linda Reynolds
According to court documents Chad Lee and a fourteen year old accomplice would kidnap Linda Reynolds who would be sexually assaulted, forced to make withdrawals from an ATM and ultimately murdered
Chad Lee would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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Chad Lee Case
Around 1:00 a.m. on April 27, 1992, defendant Chad Lee entered an AM-PM market to purchase some cigarettes. After the store clerk, Harold Drury, opened the cash drawer, defendant displayed his revolver and shot Drury in the shoulder, causing him to fall slightly backwards. Defendant then shot Drury in the top of the head, the forehead, the cheek, and the neck. Drury slumped to the floor. Defendant walked around the counter and shot Drury two more times in the right temple. One bullet went through Drury’s head and broke the display case next to his body. Chad Lee picked up the cigarettes, took the entire cash drawer from the register, and left the store. Scott Hunt was in defendant’s car waiting to leave the scene.
Hunt immediately drove defendant across the street where defendant removed the cylinder from his revolver and threw both parts into a dumpster. Hunt then drove for several miles, and defendant attempted to throw the cash drawer into a creek bed. The drawer, however, smashed into a concrete abutment on the overpass, prompting defendant and Hunt to go back, pick up the drawer, and throw it into the creek bed.
Shortly after the murder, customers found Drury behind the counter and called the police. Upon entering the store, the police saw the cash register open and the cash drawer missing. The register tape showed an incomplete transaction for cigarettes.
During three separate interviews, defendant confessed to robbing the AM-PM market and shooting Drury: May 4, 1992, at 2:45 a.m. at the Coconino County Jail where defendant was in custody for other crimes; May 5, 1992, when defendant showed police where he had disposed of the Reynolds (Lee I ) murder weapons; and May 6, 1992, at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Phoenix where the interview was recorded.
During the first interview, defendant described to detectives where the drawer first landed and where he eventually threw it into the creek bed. On their return to Phoenix, the detectives located the pieces of the cash drawer and the drawer itself in the weeds under the bridge that defendant identified. They photographed each scene and preserved the evidence.
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