Daniel Basile was executed by the State of Missouri for the murder of Elizabeth DeCaro
According to court documents Daniel Basile was paid by Elizabeth DeCaro husband Richard DeCaro to murder her. Richard DeCaro had taken out a $100,000 life insurance policy on his wife Elizabeth. Daniel would fatally shoot Elizabeth DeCaro
Richard DeCaro was arrested however he was acquitted on State charges but convicted on Federal charges and remains in Federal prison in 2023
Basile was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Basile would be executed by lethal injection on August 14 2002
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Daniel Basile was executed on August 14 2002
Daniel Basile Case
Missouri executed contract killer Daniel Basile, following a 22-hour stay issued after a woman claimed she had evidence that could clear him.
Basile died by lethal injection late Wednesday at the Potosi Correctional Center for the 1992 murder of Elizabeth DeCaro of St. Charles.
Gov. Bob Holden early Wednesday stayed the execution after Julie Ann Montgomery-Lewis submitted a statement claiming she was with Basile, 35, at the time of the murder. She claimed she did not come forward earlier because both she and Basile were involved with other people and the testimony might have hurt those relationships.
However, the state Supreme Court, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court all refused to hear Basile’s last-minute appeal.
DeCaro, 28, a mother of four, was shot twice in the back of the neck on March 6, 1992, while her husband was on a trip to the Ozarks with their children. Prosecutors contended the husband, Richard DeCaro, hired Basile for the slaying and agreed to pay him $15,000. The motive apparently was a $100,000 insurance policy on Elizabeth DeCaro.
Basile was convicted and sentenced to death in May 1994. In 1996, Basile and Richard DeCaro were convicted of conspiracy and other charges in federal court and sentenced to life.
Basile was the fifth inmate executed by Missouri this year and the 57th since the death penalty was reinstated in 1989.
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