Robert D. Dunn, 63, the Las Vegas man who admitted to killing an elderly couple and hiding their bodies in a storage unit, has died in state prison. He was serving a 288-month-to-life sentence with the possibility of parole at Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City.
Officials announced his death on Wednesday, and next-of-kin have been notified. An autopsy has been requested to determine the cause of death, which has not yet been released, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
How the Case Unfolded
The victims, Joaquin and Eleanor Sierra, vanished from public view for years before their case exploded into headlines. Their mummified remains were discovered in 2014, stuffed inside trash bins in a Las Vegas storage unit. Prosecutors say the couple had actually been killed more than a decade earlier, in 2003.
Investigators eventually focused on Dunn after learning he had continued to tap into the Sierras’ finances long after they were gone. Authorities found he had cashed the couple’s Social Security benefits and, prosecutors allege, wrote more than 100 checks in their names, spending upward of $200,000, according to reporting by the Las Vegas Review-Journal…