Pandeli killed Holly Iler after what he claimed was an abortive sexual encounter. He slit her throat and mutilated her body.
After being captured and interrogated for that murder, he confessed to killing Holly Humphreys more than a year before the Iler murder.
He was tried separately for the murder of Humphreys, and convicted of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to death for Iler's murder, but the sentence was reversed. He was sentenced to death again in a new sentencing proceeding.
