Nearly a year ago, the city and the Upper Haight were rocked with news of the murder of Canadian tourist Audrey Carey in Golden Gate Park, whose body was found during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival weekend. Two days later, Marin resident Steve Carter was found shot and killed on a hiking trail in Marin.
The three suspects in the murders, Sean Michael Angold (25), Morrison Haze Lampley (24), and Lila Scott Alligood (19), had been living in and around Buena Vista Park immediately before the murders.
Earlier this year, Angold took a plea bargain for a 15-year sentence in exchange for implicating Lampley and Alligood in the murders.
Now, the Examiner and the Chronicle report that details are emerging in the Marin County Superior Court's preliminary hearing for suspects Lampley and Alligood; the hearing will determine whether the two will face a jury trial.
In testimony from yesterday's hearing, reported on by the Examiner and Chronicle, Alligood—who was in a relationship with Lampley at the time that they were traveling through San Francisco—changed her story, initially naming Angold as the shooter in both murders, then admitting to investigators that longtime boyfriend Lampley shot Carey.
According to testimony from Marin County Sheriff’s Office Detective Scott Buer, Pamela Bullock, one of Alligood's former cellmates, told investigators that Alligood had discussed the killings with her. Carey had thanked the trio of suspects for befriending her immediately before she was shot, Bullock reported to investigators, and she quoted Alligood as calling Carey "the bitch," and saying of Carter, "The old man needed to die."
Buer also testified that Alligood had tried to have Bullock, once released, contact “a bum” in San Francisco and pay him to say that Angold was the shooter.
According to Buer, Alligood initially named Angold as the shooter because, “She said that she was protecting Lampley. She’d do anything for him. She loved him."
