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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2002

A New Mexico man convicted of murdering a Navajo woman and facing a trial for the death of a Navajo man has slowed down proceedings in yet another murder case.

Robert Ray Fry is currently on death row for killing Betty Lee. He and an accomplice beat and stabbed the mother of five to death in June 2000.

Fry also has been charged with the deaths of two more individuals, Joseph Fleming and Matthew Trecker. He waived his right to a speedy trial in this case, referred to as the "Eclectic Store Homicides."

A new judge has been assigned to the case. The delays frustrate the family of the dead.

Additional charges are pending on Donald Tsosie, a Navajo man killed in April 1998.

Get the Story:
Next Fry trial looms (The Farmington Daily-Times 9/10)

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