GUILTY CA - Partial Buried Remains, Joshua Tree National Park, June 2018 *Arrests* - Henry Stange

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MURRIETA, CA — A 28-year-old woman was arrested again in connection with the bludgeoning death of a Murrieta man nearly a year ago that may have stemmed from a love triangle, police said Friday.

Ashlie Nicole Stapp, of Joshua Tree, was taken into custody just before midnight on Wednesday, Murrietta police Sgt. Spencer Parker said, ending months of speculation as to whether she would be re-arrested in the case after her boyfriend Marine Corps 1st Lt. Curtis Lee Krueger, 30, of Twentynine Palms was charged with killing Henry Stange, 54, in December. He has pleaded not guilty.

Police said Stapp was arrested on suspicion of being an accessory after the fact of murder.
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Investigators believe Krueger beat Stange to near-death in Stange's garage, according to court filings.

According to the records, Stapp confessed to helping bury the body.

The cause of death was listed only as homicidal violence. There was no word on a possible motive, and investigators would not say how Krueger was identified as a suspect.

However a December arrest warrant says Stange "was dating" Stapp and also says Stapp was "currently dating and living with her boyfriend, Curtis Krueger." It does not say if she had been dating both men simultaneously.

Read More: Woman Arrested In Man's Death After Body Found In Joshua Tree

 

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Murrieta Murder Trial: Jury Deliberates

Jury deliberations got underway Thursday in the trial of a 32-year-old U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant and martial arts expert accused of fatally beating a Murrieta man who was sleeping with the serviceman's girlfriend.

Curtis Lee Krueger could face 25 years to life in state prison if convicted of murder and assault resulting in great bodily injury for the killing 54-year-old Henry Stange in 2018.

 

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Marine guilty of second degree murder and assault of man found buried in Joshua Tree National Park

A Riverside County jury has found former Twentynine Palms Marine Curtis Lee Krueger guilty of second-degree murder and assault in the 2018 killing of Henry Allen Stange, a 54-year-old Murrieta man, whose half-buried body was discovered several days after his murder in a shallow grave in Joshua Tree National Park.

 

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