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(KSL News) A man accused of killing a 75-year-old Salt Lake City woman can be tried for capital murder.
A judge ruled the slaying of Donna Lou Bott was carried out in an especially heinous manner, and the defendant, Floyd Eugene Maestas, could face death because of it.
Prosecutors say Maestas terrorized Bott in September 2004, demanding she tell him where she kept her money. They say he jumped on top of her, threatened to kill her, then slashed her cheek with a knife.
The state's chief medical examiner says Bott died from strangulation and blunt force injuries.
