Three charged in ‘brutal’ killing of 62-year-old man who was attacked with a flashlight and strangled with a cord

Investigators said the brutal bludgeoning was carried out after Weston Owen and Sarah Bess, both 18, along with their 21-year-old friend Kellar Weisgerber. The three allegedly conspired to kill Bess’s uncle inside his home. - (Fruita Police Department)

A 62-year-old man was beaten with a flashlight, strangled, bound and dragged behind a car before his body was dumped in the desert – a killing prosecutors described as “brutal.

Three people, including two teenagers who lived with the victim in Colorado, are now facing murder charges.