Conviction: Second Degree Murder
DOC#  0234336
Parole Review Date: 4-2-09
Sentence: 50 years
Has Served: 14 yrs 4 mths to date

Crime Story
On September 15, 1993, Christopher Draughon drove Angela Tarlton's boyfriend, Robert Peterson, and Anthony Simpson to her grandfather's residence during the early morning hours. Chris Draughon had given his shotgun to them before they arrived at the victim's resident. Draughon waited in the car while Robert Peterson and Anthony Simpson walked to the victim's residence. They knocked on the door to the residence, and when the victim came to the door they shot him in the head with a sawed off 12-gage shotgun.

The victim's ex-wife discovered him that morning lying on the front porch dead. Angela Tarlton, Robert Peterson, Chris Draughon and another subject had recently been evicted from the house they had been living in. Tarlton asked Robert Person if he and his friend would kill her grandfather. She told them that he had been beating her. She also told them that they could rob him then kill him so no one could identify them.

Tarlton knew that her grandfather always carried a large amount of money with him and they needed the money since they had been evicted.Tarlton stayed in the motel room they had rented, while Peterson and the other subjects when over to her grandfather's residence to rob and kill him. They were unable to get any money from him. At the time of his death, the victim had five thousand dollars in his wallet.

Peterson pled guilty to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to serve 50 years in prison.

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