JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri inmate who was convicted of killing two women in 2006 after videotaping their torture and murders has died.
The Missouri Department of Corrections said 56-year-old Richard Davis died Tuesday. Davis was sent to death row after being convicted of 32 felonies, including first-degree murder. Corrections officials say he died of natural causes. Davis was being held at the Potosi Correctional Center and was hospitalized for more than two weeks before his death.
Prosecutors said Davis and his then-girlfriend, Dena Riley, tortured and killed Marsha Spicer and Michelle Huff-Ricci to fulfill Davis’ fantasies. The incidents occurred in Lafayette County, just east of the Kansas City metro.
Riley is serving several life sentences for that incident as well as for molesting a then 5-year-old southeast Kansas girl just days after those murders.
