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Casey Devol pleads guilty in Franktown double murder
BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
After initially pleading not guilty to killing his sister and her boyfriend in rural Douglas County, Casey Devol reversed course and pleaded guilty weeks before his trial was set to begin.
Devol had pleaded not guilty in September and was set to see trial starting Aug. 7, according to the state judicial branch website.
He pleaded guilty to two charges of second-degree murder on July 19, according to online court records. As a result, his two charges of rstdegree murder were dismissed.
Devol also pleaded guilty to a charge related to cruelty to animals. Authorities say Devol also killed a dog in the incident.
He’s set for a sentencing hearing Aug. 7.
A recording captured audio of the incident where Devol allegedly committed the murders, according to prosecutors.
“What we have are recorded statements of the murder itself which were made by one of the victims,” Andrew Steers, a chief deputy district attorney, has said.
e existence of the recorder was not known, Steers said, until the autopsy in the case that left Jessica
Mitchell, 32, and Bryan Todd Gray, 34, dead in the Franktown area. ey were discovered in February 2022 in a garage adjacent to a house they lived in on Russellville Road. Mitchell was Devol’s sister.
Authorities don’t know why some-
