Richard Brimage was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Mary Beth Kunkel
According to court documents Richard Brimage would ask Mary Beth Kunkel to come over to his parents home to pick up some tools for her boyfriend. When Mary Beth Kunkel came over Brimage attempted to sexually assault her before he would murder her and put her into the trunk of his parents car
Brimage would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Richard Brimage would be executed by lethal injection on February 10 1997
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A man who said he deserved to die was executed by injection for raping and killing a former homecoming queen and stuffing her body in the trunk of his parents’ Cadillac.
Richard Brimage Jr., 41, was put to death Monday night months after ending his appeals. In his final statement, which he called “a message to you from God,” he urged people to help children, “the truly innocent ones.””They are the key to making the world a better place,” he said.
Relatives of the victim, 19-year-old Mary Beth Kunkel, watched the execution from behind a pane of thick glass.
“I’m pleased,” mother Francis Kunkel said. “I thanked the Lord that it was over. To me it was sad.”
Brimage lured Mary Beth Kunkel to his parents’ house in 1987 to rape her. He injected her with cocaine and jammed a sock down her throat when she struggled. She died either of strangulation or by suffocation from the sock, according to testimony
https://www.deseret.com/1997/2/11/19294656/murderer-offers-a-message-from-god-before-execution