Prosecutor: Senior driven by ‘sadistic’ impulses in killing his host in Palm Springs

BANNING, Calif. (KESQ) – An 82-year-old man accused of bludgeoning a senior who had invited him to stay at her and her husband’s Palm Springs home may have attacked her during an argument over something as incidental as a television program, fatally beating her with a barstool, a prosecutor said today.

Stephen Roy McKernan allegedly killed 75-year-old Claire Carsman in 2019.

During his closing statement Thursday, Riverside County Deputy District Attorney Steven Sorensen acknowledged, “We don’t know why Mr. McKernan did it.”…

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