Matthew Dieringer, the accused killer of 67-year-old Frank Quaranta, made his first court appearance on Sunday in what the state prosecutor described as a “very violent and horrific murder.”
“The subject allegedly beat the victim to death. This was a very violent and horrific murder,” Maricopa County Attorney’s Office prosecutor Brooke Gaunt told the judge. “There was a strong weight of the evidence against Mr. Dieringer, including presumptive DNA match to blood that was found on the scene.”
The state is pursuing a first-degree murder charge in the killing that happened on Labor Day…