Jeff Emery was execute by the State of Texas for the murder of LaShan Muhlinghaus
According to court documents Jeff Emery would break into the apartment of LaShan Muhlinghaus. When the nineteen year old woman returned home she would be murdered and sexually assaulted
Jeff Emery would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Jeff Emery would be executed by lethal injection on December 8 1998
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Jeff Emery Case
Texas has carried out its second execution in as many days, putting to death a man who murdered a Texas A&M University coed in her College Station apartment. Thirty-nine-year-old Jeff Emery was declared dead at 6:24 p.m. CST today after receiving a lethal injection at Huntsville for the Oct. 12, 1979, sexual assault and slaying of 19-year-old LaShan Muhlinghaus.
Emery’s last words were to his friend and personal witness, Catharina Majenburg. He held his hand to the death chamber window and said: ‘I just want to tell Catharina I love you and you know how I feel about you. Take care of yourself. That’s all I have to say.’
According to court records, Muhlinghaus became ill at work and returned early to her apartment on the day of the crime. She entered her roommate’s bedroom to return a dress she had borrowed when Emery jumped out of a closet and attacked her from behind. Emery, who had entered the apartment with a pass key, stabbed Muhlinghuas four times in the back. She turned and he knocked her to the floor and continued stabbing her until she died. Emery then had sexual intercourse with the woman’s body.
Emery was being held in St. Paul, Minn., on a burglary charge when he was arrested for the Texas murder, based on information provided by his ex-wife. Emery’s execution was the 19th this year and the 163rd since Texas resumed the death penalty in 1982. Two more executions are scheduled in Texas this week