GUILTY MO - Adriaunna Horton, 12, abducted & murdered, Golden City, 19 Aug 2013 *Arrest*

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June 19, 2014
Revenge motive cited in rape, murder of Golden City girl


LAMAR, Mo. — State prosecutors believe Bobby Bourne Jr. abducted, raped and murdered 12-year-old Adriaunna Horton to get back at her father for having a fling with Bourne’s wife while he was in jail.

The suspected revenge motive behind the Golden City girl’s slaying surfaced Thursday at a hearing in Barton County Circuit Court on a motion for a change of venue.

http://www.joplinglobe.com/crime_an...tive-cited-in-rape-murder-of-Golden-City-girl
 
LAMAR, MO. (AP) -- A jury will be brought in from another county for the capital murder trial of a 34-year-old southwest Missouri man accused of killing a 12-year-old girl.

Bobby Bourne Jr. has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, statutory rape and child kidnapping in the August 2013 death of Adriaunna Horton, of Golden City. Prosecutors say the girl was killed on a farm near the Barton County community.

http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=1060321#.U6RX0JRdWtI
 
menmo said:
October 2015 trial date set for accused killer/rapist of Adriaunna Horton

October 2015 trial dates have been set for Bobby Bourne, 36, Lockwood, who is charged with first degree murder, kidnapping, and statutory rape in connection with the August 19, 2013, death of 12-year-old Adriaunna Horton of Golden City.

http://rturner229.blogspot.com/2014/10/october-2015-trial-date-set-for-accused.html
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Why on earth a statutory rape charge instead of a regular rape charge? Statutory rape charges should only be used against an adult who a juvenile willingly had sex with despite not being age of consent. Obviously Adriaunna did not have sex willingly with Bourne.
 
From April:

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/judge...or-murder-of-12yearold-girl/21048998_32467544

Circuit Judge James Journey last Friday scheduled jury selection to start on July 5, 2016, in St. Joseph, changing the date from previously-scheduled Oct. 6, 2015. Under the new schedule, the trial would be in Lamar, the county seat of Barton County, starting on July 11, 2016.
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From October:

http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/loc...cle_dfdff851-e6f2-5fba-b5d9-9e7ba6f5fc7e.html

State prosecutors Thursday dismissed the rape charge that Bobby Bourne Jr. has been facing in the slaying of 12-year-old Adriaunna Horton...

Kevin Zoellner, the assistant attorney general trying the case with Barton County Prosecutor Steven Kaderly, told the judge that while an autopsy discovered no serological evidence of rape, there still are reasons to believe that the defendant tried to assault her sexually, including bruises consistent with rape.

There was testimony Wednesday that Bourne had spent time with a Golden City resident, using drugs and engaging in sex with him earlier in the afternoon that the girl was abducted. Zoellner said Bourne came away from the sexual tryst feeling frustrated since the other man was able to perform but Bourne could not.
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Death penalty challenge heard in Adriaunna Horton murder

CLINTON, Mo. — A judge heard testimony Friday on defense motions challenging the constitutionality of the state's death penalty and seeking dismissal of the prosecution's notice of intent to seek the measure in the upcoming trial of Bobby Bourne Jr.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/loc...cle_eaf4a95e-0a6a-588d-980c-e77e057ae101.html


Man charged in Golden City girl's death fights death penalty
from The Associated Press, info@ap.org
POSTED: 12:36 PM CST Feb 28, 2016

CLINTON, Mo. (AP) - -
Defense attorneys for a man accused of killing a 12-year-old Missouri girl are fighting the possibility of a death sentence even before the man goes on trial.

http://www.ky3.com/news/local/man-c...-death-fights-death-penalty/21048998_38241854
 
Attorneys for a man accused in the 2013 kidnap and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Barton County have successfully requested a postponement of the man’s trial from July 2016 to July of 2017.

Bobby Bourne, 38, is charged with child kidnapping and first-degree murder. He is accused in the death of Audriaunna Horton, who was reported missing in Barton County on Aug. 19, 2013.

Bourne’s attorneys on Friday sought the postponement, which the judge agreed to “in the interest of justice,” according to online court records. The prosecution objected to the delay.

Bourne’s trial is now set to begin July 10, 2017. He has a pretrial conference scheduled for Aug. 26, 2016.
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http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/local-news/bourne-murder-trial-postponed-for-a-year
 
Attorneys for the accused killer of a Golden City girl have filed motions seeking to force prosecutors to drop their intent to seek the death penalty and challenging the constitutionality of Missouri's sentencing scheme in capital murder cases.

Bobby D. Bourne Jr., 37, of Lockwood, is accused of abducting 12-year-old Adriaunna Horton on Aug. 19, 2013, from a park in Golden City and strangling her. He is scheduled to be tried in July on charges of first-degree murder and child kidnapping. The state filed notice of its intent to seek the death penalty in January 2014.
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http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/loc...cle_d9ce50c0-a68f-5d78-a637-67ab924afd3b.html
 
Bourne trial pushed back a year

http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/crime_and_courts/bourne-trial-pushed-back-a-year/article_021d27d0-5e64-5084-8617-2f500837eb1c.html

The capital murder trial of Bobby D. Bourne Jr. in the kidnapping and slaying of 12-year-old Adriaunna Horton, of Golden City, has been pushed back a year at the request of defense attorneys.

Bourne, 38, of Lockwood, was scheduled to be tried in July, with a jury to be selected in Buchanan County and brought to Barton County to hear the case. But Judge James Journey made a docket entry on Friday resetting the case for August 2018 in response to a defense motion for a continuance.
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Motion questions whether Bobby Bourne's prior convictions merit death penalty

http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/local_news/motion-questions-whether-bobby-bourne-s-prior-convictions-merit-death/article_29daa45b-b5b8-56c7-86f3-d25686bc89df.html

With an August trial date fast approaching, attorneys for Bobby Bourne continue to file motions challenging the state’s intent to seek the death penalty for Bourne in the abduction and slaying of 12-year-old Adriaunna Horton.

One motion filed by defense attorneys Thomas Jacquinot and Patrick Berrigan is asking Circuit Judge James Journey to strike two of the five statutory aggravating circumstances cited by the state in its notice of intent to seek the death penalty.

The circumstances in question allege that Bourne has one or more “serious assaultive convictions.” The convictions concern the same incident on Oct. 30, 2011, and the defense maintains that they are “not so serious or assaultive as to make Bourne eligible for the death penalty.”
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State backs off strangulation as means in Golden City girl's murder

This week, Steven Kaderly, the Barton County prosecutor, filed a motion for permission to file a second amended information in the case. The motion requests a change in the wording on the murder count from "the defendant, after deliberation, knowingly caused the death of Adriaunna Horton by strangling her" to "by undetermined means."

The medical examiner who conducted the autopsy in Springfield, Dr. Keith Norton, reported finding evidence of strangulation, a contention the defense has disputed at hearings and in motions filed with the court. The finding has been shaping up as a likely trial issue. A list of the defense's proposed exhibits for a hearing in the case on Monday lists the resume of another noted medical examiner, his pathology report and a number of publications dealing with deaths by asphyxiation and strangulation.
 
Family says justice served with sentence

Larry Horton, Adriaunna’s uncle, said his brother, James, Adriaunna’s father, and Adriaunna’s two younger sisters, made the decision to accept the plea agreement.

“Bobby had made the comment that he would plead guilty to first degree murder and kidnapping if the family was ok with that,” Larry Horton said. “So my brother and Adriaunna’s two sisters and my dad had talked about it and my brother finally looked at my dad and said, it’s been five years and it’s time for justice. So being two consecutive terms of life in prison, without a chance of parole, my brother was happy with that, and I think everyone else is too.”

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Larry Horton said he thinks about his niece every day and misses her greatly.

“She used to come out to the farm and ride horses,” he said. “She wanted to be around the horses and she always had a smile on her face. She never had a bad word to say about anyone, she never got upset. I always called her my little angel because she reminded me of an angel. She had open arms for total strangers, she’d go through the neighborhood there at home and ask if anyone needed help or if she could do anything to help them. She was a very loving, caring young lady.“​
 
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