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6/22/2012

Docket Report Results

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CaseID: 60PR-93-1640 - IN RE LUTHER GERALD PARKS -NON-TRIAL
Filing Date: Tuesday, September 28th, 1993 
Type: DE - DECEDENT ESTATE

Life Insurance payout of $500,000.00

My father was murdered on Sunday, September 26, 1993 and this was filed on Tuesday, September 28, 1993.

Docket Report Results

Life Insurance Payout


Paid to Jane Parks (Dr. Millsteins life insurance) total of $236,163.20

1707 Stephen Court Mt. Home, AR

Sale of Dr. Millsteins home $123,000.00

Total of $359,163.20 ~ And they say murder doesn't pay?

6/19/2012

Jury selection delayed in Gary Parks capital murder trial until 6/20/2012

Jury Selection Delayed

Jury selection has been postponed until Wednesday in Baxter County Circuit Court for the capital murder trial of Gary Wayne Parks, who is accused ot the 2006 murder of his stepfather, Dr. David Millstein.
Baxter County Deputy Clerk Shelly Cranor said members of the jury panel now are to report at 9 a.m. Wednesday to the Baxter County Court Complex. According to Cranor, jury selection was delayed so the court could hear motions in the case today.
Both the state and defense anticipate an at least day-long selection process to seat a jury.
Millstein, 62, was found dead in his 1707 Stephen Court residence on June 18, 2006. An autopsy showed he died from multiple stab wounds.
Parks, 41, was arrested and charged after a 3½-year investigation by Mountain Home police and Arkansas State Police. No motive has been given for Millstein’s murder, and the case file has been sealed since Parks’ early court appearances. However, the state has contended the murder was premeditated, done for financial gain and was done in a cruel or depraved manner, which are conditions for a capital murder charge.
Prosecutor Ron Kincade has not said whether he will seek the death penalty for Parks. Capital murder carries two penalties — death, or life imprisonment without parole.
Parks is being represented by Danny Glover of Wynne and Joe Perry of Marianna.

6/16/2012

Capital Murder Trial For Man Accused Of Killing Stepfather Set To Begin Tuesday: 06/19/2012

Trial set to begin Tuesday for man accused of killing his stepfather

Story Written by: The Crime Scene

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday (06-19-12) in Baxter County, Arkansas, in the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing his stepfather in June of 2006.

It took authorities three and a half years before they arrested Gary Wayne Parks, 41, of Germantown, Tennessee, for the murder of Mountain Home urologist Dr. David Millstein.
Millstein was found with his throat slit in his bed on June 16, 2006. The probable cause affidavit that outlines the state's case against Parks has remained sealed since his arrest in December of 2009. But Baxter County prosecutor Ron Kincade says Parks killed 62 year-old Millstein in his home at 1707 Stephen Court for financial gain and that the murder was premeditated.

Earlier this year attorney's for Parks asked for a continuance in the case after some information in the State Medical Examiner's came "as a surprise."

According to docket entries in the case, defense attorney's Joe Perry and Danny Glover, wanted the State Medical Examiner to pinpoint the time of Millstein's death. In December of 2010, Dr. Charles P. Kokes told defense attorney's that he could not pinpoint the time of Dr. Millstein's death and he does not routinely note the time of death while performing autopsy's.

On January 13, 2012, Kokes faxed Parks' attorney's a letter noting that he believed the time of death was in the early morning hours of June 17, 2006. In their motion for continuance, defense attorney's cited that the new information did not give them enough time properly defend Parks, and their need to have an expert review Dr. Kokes "opinion."

In the correspondence to defense attorney's Kokes says, "Autopsy findings alone, without consideration of investigative information, would place his (Millstein's) death anywhere from 3 p.m. on 6/16 to 3 p.m. on 6/17. Assuming the reliability of the investigative information I have been provided with, the time window narrows, and it is unlikely that death would have taken place prior to 1:30 a.m. on 6/17. In light of the fact that he still had remnants of a dinner type meal in his stomach, that the assault took place while he was in bed, and that he was still wearing his bed clothes, it is most likely that the death took place in the morning hours of 6/17 between 1: 30 a.m. and the time at which he would have normally arisen."

Millstein was married to Gary's mother, Lois Jane Parks, at the time of his murder. However, the couple were estranged and she lived in Little Rock at the time his death. Parks' father, Jerry, was gunned down on a Little Rock street in September of 1993. He remains a suspect in his father's murder as well.