Interesting Info: Bart Whitaker

Bart Whitaker sits on Texas death row for the murders of his mother and brother in an effort to collect on a $1 million inheritance.

According to police, Champagne says it was Bart Whitaker who masterminded the crime and recruited his buddies to carry it out.

“Bart Whitaker had provided those to them to use during the course of carrying out the plot,” Slot says.

After about a day and a half of deliberation, the jury in the Bart Whitaker trial sentenced Whitaker to death for planning the 2003 murders of his mother, Patricia, and brother, Kevin.

The penalty phase of an emotional capital murder trial ended on Thursday, March 8, 2007 when Thomas “Bart” Whitaker, who orchestrated the killing of his entire family and resulted in the deaths of his mother and brother in 2003, was sentenced to death in Fort Bend County, Texas.

“Somebody interacts with Bart Whitaker, it can be on a totally innocent basis, and you decide to perceive it different.

Investigators found Thomas “Bart” Whitaker, 25, in Monterrey, Mexico.

Police say Bart Whitaker is a suspect in the case, but he hasn’t been charged.

He is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Patricia Whitaker, 51, and her son Kevin, 19.

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Police believe Whitaker conspired with Steven Champagne, 23, and Chris A. Brashear, 23, to have the rest of the Whitaker family killed.

Police have made another arrest in the 2003 killings of a Sugar Land mother and her son.

Police were told that the family had gone out to dinner to celebrate Bart’s upcoming graduation from Sam Houston State University.

“He used to tell me that he was an only child, that he never loved his mother because his mother never loved him either.

Steven Champagne is cooperating with investigators, according to police.

Champagne confessed that he was the getaway driver, Brashear was the shooter, and that Bart was the mastermind behind the plan.

A video was played showing a then 23-year-old Bart Whitaker lying to the police about the events that took place at the scene of the murder, where Bart himself was also shot in the shoulder to make it look like the entire family had surprised a burglar in the home.

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A mother disappears leaving behind friends, family, and a mystery that would take 30 years to solve.

Court records show Champagne allegedly agreed to drive Brashear from the home after the attack.

Slot pressed on, focusing on the suspects still in Sugar Land, especially Steven Champagne.

“The picture of him and his mom and his brother sittin’ there, eating.

The prosecutor wants to convince the jury that Bart’s disconnect with reality makes him dangerous.

For 14 months, Bart lived a care free new life as Rudy Rios, but it was all about to an end.

“The Sugar Land Police Department and the Fort Bend County District Attorney’s office will continue this investigation until all of those responsible for this heinous crime are charged and convicted,” said Sugar Land Police Chief Steve Griffith.

Bart, Kent, Tricia and Kevin Whitaker.

He wanted to kill his brother Kevin quite simply because he didn’t want to split the money with Kevin.

Kent says he felt a “great deal of disappointment” after the verdict.

Bart Whitaker’s father, who has supported and forgiven his son and asked that he not be given the death penalty, was also supposed to die in a murder that was conceived for the most cold-blooded of reasons: money.

When Bart fled Sugar Land seven months after the shootings, he left behind a community and a father in disbelief.