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Steven Richard Mulkey, a 32-year-old man originally from Fort Payne, was found guilty of capital murder for the September 2018 slaying of an elderly Birmingham couple and sentenced to death
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Court officials confirm Steven Mulkey was sentenced to the death penalty.
Steven Richard Mulkey was convicted in the 2018 slayings of Siumei Kao, 76, and Ching Kao, 77, at the Siesta Motel in Irondale.
Steven Richard Mulkey was restrained in a chair after he was found guilty of the brutal murders of Siumei Kao, 76, and Ching Kao, 77.
The handyman captured on video fatally bludgeoning an elderly couple with his hammer at their Irondale motel took the stand in his own defense, telling jurors a lifetime of mental illness and heavy drug use caused him to blackout and carry out the horrific killings.“My body just took over,‘’ Steven Richard Mulkey testified Friday.