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Couple pleads not guilty to taped killing

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Published: May 30, 2006 at 7:50 PM

INDEPENDENCE, Mo., May 30 (UPI) -- A Missouri couple pleaded not guilty Tuesday to raping and killing a woman whose death was documented on videotape.

Richard Davis and Dena Riley of Independence are suspects in the killing of another woman, the Kansas City Star reported.

Davis and Riley wore bullet-proof vests over jail jumpsuits as they were escorted into the Jackson County Courthouse. Relatives of the victim, Marsha Spicer, sat in the front row.

"They deserve what happened to my mom," Betty Jean Spicer, 19, said afterwards.

Deputies seized a videotape during a search of the couple's apartment that showed a naked Spicer bound with duct tape. Spicer's body was found May 15 in a shallow grave.

A friend of Spicer, Michelle Ricci, has been missing since early April. Investigators are trying to determine if the woman depicted on another videotape was Ricci and if it was her body found in a rural area during the weekend.

Riley and Davis were arrested Thursday after they crashed their car in southern Missouri. They were accompanied by a 5-year-old girl who may have been kidnapped, police said.

Topics: Marsha Spicer, Richard Davis
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