Corbin McNeil, 17, and James Quintero, 18, faced dozens of felony charges, including for the murders of 27-year-old Matthew Meisner and 34-year-old Amber Patton.
Matthew Meisner and Meagen Epstein were friends since birth. She remembers, at the age of seven, waiting at the hospital when her cousin was born on May 24, 1993, in Mesa.
Over the years their families spent Christmases and Thanksgivings together while living on the opposite ends of town.
“Matthew liked to cheer people up, he liked to make people happy. He was like the peacemaker a lot of the time,” Epstein told The Arizona Republic.
He loved animals and cared for his mom’s three cats after her death – Skitty, Hunter and QT.
Those cats are the inspiration for a new bill proposed in the wake of Meisner s murder.
Evidence from Chandler murder case leads to teen crime-spree arrests
Murder victim becomes hero in death
Evidence discovered after a Chandler womanâs murder led to the arrest of two teens, which ended a two-month East Valley crime spree, according to police.
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CHANDLER, AZ â Evidence discovered after a Chandler womanâs murder led to the arrest of two teens, which ended a two-month East Valley crime spree, according to police.
Amber Patton, 34, was an Army veteran who survived Iraq. She arrived home from work at a car wash just before 11 p.m. on September 19, 2020. According to police and court reports, two teens who had crashed a stolen car nearby followed Patton into her garage.