Prosecutors open case in Toto SGP Binion trial (Updated!)
Prosecutors opened the retrial of the "Poker Murder Case" in Las Vegas on Thursday October 14, telling jurors that a former stripper and her secret lover killed WSOP director Ted Binion for a piece of a million-dollar estate and a fortune in buried treasure. "This case is about betrayal," Deputy District Attorney Christopher Lalli said in his opening statement. "It is about lust. It is about abject greed." Sandy Murphy, a 32-year-old former stripper, and Rick Tabish, a 39-year-old Montana contractor, were sent to prison for the 1998 death of Ted Binion, who came from a prominent Las Vegas family that owned the famed Binion's Horseshoe Hotel & Casino. But the defendants are back on trial because the Nevada Supreme Court tossed out their convictions last year. If convicted a second time, the pair could be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Prosecutors say the suspects forced Prosecutors open case in ...