Rangel-photo Harvey Co.
NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor plans to seek the death penalty against one of two people accused of killing three people before fleeing to Mexico.
Harvey County Attorney David Yoder announced the plans to seek the death penalty against 35-year-old Jereme Nelson in a news release Friday. Yoder didn’t say whether he would seek the death penalty against 31-year-old Myrta Rangel.
Nelson and Rangel are charged with one count of capital murder and three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 33-year-old Travis Street, 37-year-old Angela May Graevs and 52-year-old Richard Prouty. The victims’ bodies were found in October outside a rural home near Moundridge. An 18-month-old child was found unharmed.
Nelson and Rangel were extradited Thursday to Kansas, and the prosecutor’s office declined to say whether they have attorneys.
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HARVEY COUNTY- With the cooperation of the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, both Jereme
Nelson, 35, and Myrta Rangel, 31, have been safely and successfully extradited back to Harvey County.
They arrived in Newton around 5:45 Thursday evening, according to a media release.
Harvey County prosecutors have charged Nelson and Rangel each with one count of capital murder and three counts of first-degree murder.
They were arrested earlier this month in Mexico and were returned to the U.S., where they remain jailed in California until their return to Kansas.
Nelson in pre-booking photo Harvey Co.
Authorities have said the bodies of 33-year-old Travis Street and 37-year-old Angela May Graevs, both of Moundridge, and 52-year-old Richard Prouty of Newton, were found Oct. 30 outside a rural home near Moundridge.
An 18-month-old child was found unharmed.
Nelson and Rangel are currently being housed in the Harvey County Detention Center.