Significant Cases

U.S. v Ricardo Murillo et. al. (“Strange Bedfellows”)

By Tom O’Connell / March 8, 2015

In 2000, prosecuted Christopher Moseley, husband of DuPont heiress Lisa Dean Moseley, and others for Murder for Hire. Moseley traveled from his Delaware estate to Las Vegas and recruited Diana Hironaga, a former stripper and porn star, to kill Patricia Margello, a drug addict/prostitute and the girlfriend of Lisa Dean Mosley’s son, Dean. Hironaga in …

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U.S. v Jerald Burgess (“Ultimate Frustration”)

By Tom O’Connell / March 8, 2015

In 2001, we reopened the 1978 investigation of 6-year-old Cary Sayegh’s heartbreaking disappearance and presumed murder. During the course of the investigation, a consummate and notorious confidential informant gleaned valuable evidence about the crime from Burgess, the prime suspect (who had been acquitted on state charges of kidnapping Cary years earlier). The informant was also …

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