David Higdon convicted in Philip Walstead murder
Guilty of first degree murder and armed robbery -- that's the verdict in Tucson, Arizona, against David Higdon (shown), the man accused of beating Phillip Walstead to death with a baseball bat in 2002. The victim's mother, Judy Boyer, told reporters the jury couldn't have come to any other conclusion. "It's too much evidence. Too much there," Boyer says. Like us, many considered the case a hate crime because Walstead was gay, but it wasn't classified that way. Phillip Walstead would have been 27 years old next month. Higdon's sentencing is scheduled for March 28th.
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