Before going to the witness stand during his capital murder trial in the killing of a woman with whom he had a casual sexual relationship, Valerian O’Steen walked this week from holdover quarters into the courtroom and blew a kiss to the gallery and his current girlfriend.
O’Steen bludgeoned Marissa Grimes, dug a shallow grave for her under his house in west Fort Worth and for 10 days lived above where police later sawed open the floor to expose Grimes’ decomposing 135-pound body, prosecutors have argued that the evidence shows.
The Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office is seeking a death sentence for O’Steen, for which he would be executed with pentobarbital, after a jury found him guilty this week…