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Kyle Sharp
Nine-year-old Brandon Coughlin lived at the Sands Motel in Wilcox, where his mother was the manager. He became worried after his mother did not return after he heard a woman screaming, a door slamming and footsteps pounding in the room above.
After Brandon was unable to find his mother, he went to a nearby Circle K, where the clerk noticed him in distress. The clerk called the police who went to the motel and found Brandon's mother, who had been sodomized and strangled to death, on the bathroom floor of Sharp's room.
The police found Sharp lying on the bed fully clothed except for shoes, faking unconsciousness. Sharp strangled the victim so hard that the bone at the base of her tongue was broken.