Killing Spree Suspects Plead Not Guilty In Washington
EVERETT, Wash. (CBS13) -- A couple accused of killing four people in three states pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon in Everett to two counts of murder after being transported from the Yuba County Jail in Marysville on Tuesday.
David "Joey" Pedersen, 31, and Holly Grigsby, 24, are charged with aggravated murder in the deaths of Pedersen's father and his wife. David "Red" Pedersen and his wife Leslie were killed in Everett around Sept. 26.
Trial for 31-year-old David "Joey" Pedersen and 24-year-old Holly Grigsby was set for Dec. 2 in Snohomish County Superior Court, although that is likely to be postponed.
The prosecutor has until Nov. 14 to decide whether to seek the death penalty, although that date also could be extended.
The two were moved Tuesday from the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, where they had been held since their arrest Oct. 6. They were spotted on a rural county road by a CHP officer and taken into custody with incident despite having loaded weapons in their car.
They are also suspected of killing Cody Myers near Philomath, Ore., and Reginald Alan Clark in Eureka.
In jailhouse interviews with the Appeal-Democrat newspaper in Marysville, both admitted to the killings. They said Pedersen's father was killed because he abused Joey Pedersen's older sister and that his wife was murdered because she knew of it and didn't do anything.
Myers was killed because the two white supremacists thought he was Jewish, they said, and Clark, who was black, was targeted because of his race, they said.
(The Associated Press contributed to this story)
