ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) – Jurors have recommended the death penalty for a St. Louis area man who killed his girlfriend, her two children, and her mother. Richard Darren Emery, of St. Charles, hung his head, embraced his lawyers, and cried after Judge Michael Fagras read the verdict Tuesday. The victim’s friends and family shook hands and smiled. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Fagras will formally sentence him on Nov. 3. Emery was convicted Friday of four counts of first-degree murder in the December 2018 attack.
