Killer gets death penalty in 2003 murders

Stacey Humphreys (Courtesy 11Alive.com)

A Brunswick jury on Sunday morning sentenced Stacey Ian Humphreys to death in the 2003 murders of two Cobb Co. real estate agents.

Humphreys was convicted Tuesday of murdering 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown at their Powder Springs sales office on Nov. 3, 2003. Humphreys forced both women to strip naked and give him their bank cards before he shot them in the head.

The jury of 10 women and two men deliberated for nearly 19 hours over three days before deciding on their sentence.

In her closing argument Tuesday, prosecutor Eleanor Dixon read from a transcript of a taped interview Humphreys gave to police after his arrest. Humphreys told investigators he didn't remember committing the crime, but believed he was guilty.

Humphreys, 34, fixed his eyes on the defense table and showed no emotion when the verdict was read. Relatives of the slain women cried quietly in the courtroom. Prosecutors said Humphreys attacked the two women because he needed money to make a $565 payment on his Dodge Durango truck.

"I know I did it," Humphreys said on the tape, which jurors reviewed during their deliberations. "I know it just as well as my own name."

The judge had moved the trial more than 300 miles to coastal Brunswick because of pretrial publicity.

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(AP)

Testimony wraps in Humphreys trial

Testimony has wrapped up in the trial of the man charged with killing two real estate agents in 2003. The lawyer for Stacey Ian Humphreys rested without calling any defense witnesses in the trial being staged on the coast in Brunswick. The defendant Humphreys told the judge he did not want to testify. Closing arguments are set for this morning. Humphreys faces the death penalty in the killings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams, and 21-year-old Lori Brown. They were found shot to death in their Cobb County model home real estate office.

Juror bounced from Brunswick murder trial

Only a couple of days into the double-murder trial of Stacey Ian Humphreys in Brunswick, a juror has been dismissed.

Authorities say one of three men on the jury flashed a thumbs-up sign to deputies as they were escorting the defendant. Typically, jurors are prevented from seeing defendants bound in handcuffs or chains because it might create the presumption of guilt.

Humphreys faces the death penalty if convicted of the murders of two real estate agents in Cobb County in 2003. The trial is in Brunswick because of pre-trial publicity in the metro-Atlanta area.

Death penalty trial begins in Brunswick

Southeast Georgia will be the site for the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing two Cobb County real estate agents four years ago--proceedings begin today with the start of jury selection. The murder trial of Stacey Ian Humphreys has been moved to Brunswick because of pre-trial publicity. He is charged in the killings of Lori Brown and Cyndi Williams--their bodies were found in a model home in a west Cobb County subdivision in 2003.