
Jurors recommended the death penalty Tuesday for a St. Louis area man who killed his girlfriend, her two children and her mother.
Richard Darren Emery, of St. Charles, hung his head, embraced his lawyers and cried after Judge Michael Fagras read the verdict. The victims' friends and family shook hands and smiled. Fagras will formally sentence Emery on Nov. 3, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.