Original Report 3/5/25 – 3:40 pm
The jury discovered that Adam Slater was convicted of the six positions, including first degree murder.
Gavin Nguyen of News Channel 3 will have the latest in the Court Chamber from 4 pm
Original Report 3/5/25 – 2:30 PM
A verdict has been reached in the trial of A convicted criminal accused of killing his one -year -old daughter and stabbing his pregnant wife after becoming go during an exchange of child custody in Indian Wells.
Adam Slater, 53, of Palm Desert, supposedly killed the baby Madalyn in 2020 during an act of anger that included a severe assault on his separate wife and unite a good Samaritan.
Gavin Nguyen of News Channel 3 will have the latest in the Court Chamber from 4 pm
Slater is accused of first degree murder, attempted murder, assault on a child that results in a great body injury, assault with a mortal weapon, a hidden child, resistance to arrest, a special circumstance of the accusation of murder in the course of a kidnapping and relief of sentences of use of a deadly weapon, a murder knife of a striker and influence of great gold.
The testimony concluded after almost two weeks of the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense calling witnesses to the Larson Justice Center in Indian.
On Tuesday, the two parties issued their closing statements before delivering the case to the jury.
Slater is stopped without bail at the Benoit detention center.
According to a trial report presented by the Office of the District Prosecutor, at the beginning of 2020, the defendant and his wife, whose identity was not revealed, separated, but the two shared the custody of Madalyn. After keeping the girl of a year with him during an un specified number of days, he and his wife agreed to be outside the southwest church on Washington Street in Indian Wells, where the woman had to recover the TOT.
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However, after taking Slater’s girl and placing her in her vehicle, the defendant “ suddenly attacked the pregnant victim, the brief alleged.
“ He pushed her to her car, and she fell to the floor, “the narrative said. `The defendant stabbed her under the chin and abdomen with a saw knife and hit her face. She shouted, and he covered her mouth with her hands. The good Samaritans began to touch the horn to make noise to interrupt the assault, and the defendant grabbed Madalyn and placed it in his car and ran away. ”
With the knife still standing out of his stomach, the victim called 911 to inform the assault and kidnapping, according to the report.
As he accelerated away from the church to the west, Slater called his roommate and told him that he intended to commit suicide, then hung, according to judicial documents.
Slater directed his car to Highway 74 of two lanes, going to the steep hills that mark the beginning of the National Forest of San Bernardino, going in the direction of Pinyon Pines, west of Palm Desert. The allegedly trampled defendant his accelerator and left a cliff to a ravine, where the vehicle overturned, prosecutors said.
A motorist witnessed the accident and immediately stopped on the road shoulder, quickly arriving at the bottom of the embankment, with the intention of helping Slater and Madalyn, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
“ Rescued Madalyn from the vehicle and said he had a small lump in his head and was crying, but he was alert and breathing, “the brief said. “ He extended to help the defendant, but the defendant stabbed him on the arm and grabbed Madalyn. ”
The man’s shoulder was dislocated by the strength of the child who took him away.
“ While keeping Madalyn by an arm, the defendant stabbed her and threw her below in the ravine, “said the judicial documents.
The injured man returned to the road to call 911, what other motorists were already doing while watching the defendant grabbing rocks and accumulating them where Madalyn had been thrown, the report said.
Sheriff’s agents reached the location shortly after and saw Slater still in the ravine. He tried to flee from them, but was quickly apprehended. They asked where he had put the baby, and Slater was evasive, saying only that he ‘disorderly’ ‘and wanted “ the death penalty, “according to the report.
The agents and officers of the California road patrol soon discovered the rock battery, noticing that the hair stood out under it. They removed the battery and found Madalyn dead. According to prosecutors, an autopsy determined that he had suffered “ multiple wounds of white weapon ” to the upper body.
The baby’s mother finally recovered from her wounds, just like the man who tried to save the Tot.
Judicial documents claim that Slater has been a series domestic abuser, victimizing three women before the 2020 attack. He was sentenced in 1995 by forced sexual penetration and turned two years in a state prison. He was required to register as a sexual offender after probation.
