Man Gets 48 Years For Wheat Ridge Woman's Murder
Fatal Stabbing Unsolved For Five Years
POSTED: 2:24 p.m. MST December 19, 2002
GOLDEN, Colo. -- A 35-year-old man who taunted police over the telephone about an unsolved murder was sentenced Thursday to 48 years for the killing, 7NEWS reported.
A jury convicted Michael Muniz, 35, in November of second-degree
murder and two violent crime counts in the death of Kay Bodway, 46 (pictured, left), of Wheat Ridge. The first trial ended in a hung jury in August.
Bodway was found stabbed to death in the garage of her town home on July 2, 1996. She had moved to Wheat Ridge from Denver a month earlier after her children insisted it would be a safer neighborhood. Her new home also was closer to her 4-year-old grandson.
The murder case unsolved for five years until a late-night phone call to police by a man who said he had information about an unsolved murder. The caller went on to describe how he had followed Bodway home from a nearby mall and stabbed her to death. The call ended with a warning to police that said, "I'm back."
Police traced the call to a nearby motel and arrested Muniz. His lawyer said Muniz made the call, but it was a prank.
Muniz received the maximum sentence for the crime.
A jury convicted Michael Muniz, 35, in November of second-degree
murder and two violent crime counts in the death of Kay Bodway, 46 (pictured, left), of Wheat Ridge. The first trial ended in a hung jury in August.
Bodway was found stabbed to death in the garage of her town home on July 2, 1996. She had moved to Wheat Ridge from Denver a month earlier after her children insisted it would be a safer neighborhood. Her new home also was closer to her 4-year-old grandson.
The murder case unsolved for five years until a late-night phone call to police by a man who said he had information about an unsolved murder. The caller went on to describe how he had followed Bodway home from a nearby mall and stabbed her to death. The call ended with a warning to police that said, "I'm back."
Police traced the call to a nearby motel and arrested Muniz. His lawyer said Muniz made the call, but it was a prank.
Muniz received the maximum sentence for the crime.
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