Brenda and Erica Lafferty’s grave in Twin Falls, Idaho, is pictured on Monday, May 31, 2021. Brenda and Erica Lafferty were laid to rest together, with Erica laying in the crook of Brenda ...
Brenda Lafferty holds her daughter, Erica Lafferty, on Sunday, June 5, 1983, about one year before their murder. That day, Erica was blessed by her father, Allen Lafferty.
Some of the defendants I prosecuted were Joseph Paul Franklin, Arthur Gary Bishop, Norman Newstead, Ronnie Lee Gardner and Ron Lafferty.
Creighton Horton: After graduating from UCLA Law School, I came to Utah and got a job as a prosecutor in the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office. I worked as a prosecutor there for nine years and then transferred to the Utah Attorney General’s Office, where I worked for 22 years. When I was in law school I was interested in becoming a defense attorney, not a prosecutor, but through happenstance I went into prosecution and ended up becoming involved in a series of high profile cases. I prosecuted about a dozen capital murder cases—serial killers, child killers, sexually deviant killers, religious fanatic killers, and mentally deranged killers. Some of those I helped convict have been executed or are currently on death row. I recently published a book about my career, entitled A Reluctant Prosecutor: My Journey.
Some of the defendants I prosecuted were Joseph Paul Franklin, Arthur Gary Bishop, Norman Newstead, Ronnie Lee Gardner and Ron Lafferty.
Creighton Horton: After graduating from UCLA Law School, I came to Utah and got a job as a prosecutor in the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office. I worked as a prosecutor there for nine years and then transferred to the Utah Attorney General’s Office, where I worked for 22 years. When I was in law school I was interested in becoming a defense attorney, not a prosecutor, but through happenstance I went into prosecution and ended up becoming involved in a series of high profile cases. I prosecuted about a dozen capital murder cases—serial killers, child killers, sexually deviant killers, religious fanatic killers, and mentally deranged killers. Some of those I helped convict have been executed or are currently on death row. I recently published a book about my career, entitled A Reluctant Prosecutor: My Journey.