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As the felony murder trial of Jay Junior Sigler and Christopher Michelson opened in Broward Circuit Court, [Brian] Cavanagh tied Palmer's death to the prison escape, and told the jury that the two men should be found guilty and sent to prison for the rest of their lives.

\"My mom was lying there, in her bed,\" she recalled. A blanket covered Bianca Sierra's body. Cionie remembered removing it. Cionie Sierra couldn't answer. She dabbed at her tears and nearly a minute passed before she looked up. \"Like something happened,\" she said. \"There was blood.\" Jurors had already seen gruesome crime scene photos depicting Bianca Sierra's body lying facedown on her bed in her Pompano Beach apartment. Prosecutors say [Jorge Ayala-Villamizar] bashed the woman's head in, stole her car, and fled the state. He was captured five years later, in Texas, after the crime was featured on the television show \"America's Most Wanted.\"

[Stephen Covell] is also a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of Amanda Dougherty, a 5-year-old girl who was killed in 1994 in North Lauderdale. Covell lived with the Doughertys until two years before the murder, and was an old friend of the girl's father, David Dougherty, another potential suspect.

In Germany, [William Coday]'s illness was recognized and he received a light sentence because of it, released after three years. When he returned to the United States, Coday didn't seek appropriate care and he stopped taking his medicine. [George Reres] said it's a common trap befalling the mentally ill: They think they can outsmart their disease.

PHOTO; Caption: Staff photo/Lou Toman IN CONFERENCE: [William Coday], right, talks with his attorney, [George Reres], in court on Friday. Coday, 43, tried to commit suicide in his jail cell in September and was left in what witnesses called \"horrific conditions\" in a suicide watch cell.

[Paul Trucchio] also has moved to disqualify the Broward State Attorney's Office and has run through six judges and a string of defense lawyers. The court most recently appointed George Reres to defend him, but both Trucchio and the lawyer himself now want him off the case. \"He is abusing the process,\" said [Scott Raft], adding that [Lorraine Hatzakorzian]'s family will never get closure as long as Trucchio continues to be allowed to file \"frivolous\" appeals. Reres also said there may be some merit to Trucchio's argument that [Ilona Holmes] should not have accepted his plea. During that hearing, Trucchio turned to Hatzakorzian's family in the courtroom gallery and said he was pleading guilty even though he was innocent, an indication that his plea was not sincere, Reres said.

The Morgans planned to kill themselves on March 13, 2003 in their Cleveland Street duplex in Hollywood. But their pact didn't go as planned: [Elaine Morgan] died with his help, police said. He then tried to kill himself, but survived. If it goes to trial, [George Reres] said he will argue that Morgan is not guilty by reason of insanity. He noted that a court-appointed psychologist diagnosed Morgan as suffering from folie deux, a rare psychotic disorder in which two people share a common delusion. The couple, married 24 years, did not have close friends. They spent their time watching movies at home and playing video games. Reres said Morgan is doing much better today. He is on psychiatric medication and is back in touch with his family from his cell in the Broward County Jail.

William Coday, 51, bled to death in his cell at Union Correctional Institution in Raiford from what are being called self-inflicted wounds, said one of his attorneys, George Reres. Coday had a history of suicidal behavior and had attempted to kill himself while awaiting trial at the Broward County Jail. The Florida Supreme Court tossed out the death sentence in 2006, ruling that the judge shouldn't have disregarded testimony and evidence from six mental health experts who found that Coday suffered from serious mental illnesses. The case went back to the judge, who again sentenced Coday to die. \"[His death] surprised me because on Death Row one would have assumed that he was more closely watched,\" [Stella Sands] said. \"It didn't surprise me because he was a very brilliant man and I don't think he could live with himself. He knew he was highly flawed as a human being.\"

Thomas Daugherty, Brian Hooks and William \"Billy\" Ammons pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder in the killing of 45- year-old Norris Gaynor and attempted murder in the beatings of Raymond Perez and Jacques Pierre. At 8:49 a.m. Daugherty's Plantation Isles neighbor, Brian Hooks entered, shackled and dressed in a red jumpsuit with \"Maximum Custody Inmate\" imprinted on the back. Five minutes later Ammons, dressed in a similar red jumpsuit, entered. He quickly exchanged glances with his mother, Dianne Franklin. She mouthed the words \"I love you.\" Ammons' nodded, his face reddened, tears came.

A Palm Beach County grand jury indicted [Jerry Wiggins] in February 2005 on first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery and attempted sexual battery charges in [Monica Rivera-Valdizan]'s death. A spokesman for the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office said prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty against Wiggins.