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DA Seeking Life Sentence 10:50 pm
Four years after Chase Anderson was found brutally murdered in Curwensville, authorities are now seeking the life sentence for a prime suspect in this case.
In August of 2017, authorities say Denny Bailey, Kenja Tew and Chantell Demi took Anderson to a wooded area in Curwensville, stabbed him to death and burned his body.
According to court documents Demi and Joseph Ralston burned the truck that was used during the homicide.
Now nearly three years after charges were filed with the death penalty on the table, Clearfield County District Attorney Ryan Sayers is seeking the life sentence for Bailey.
The new public official also desribed it as âinteresting.â
â2020 for me like everyone else was an interesting year,â Sayers said.
Statistically, Sayers said this was the busiest year for the district attorneyâs office in memory.
As of Monday, the 1,392 cases were filed in the Clearfield County Court of common pleas, according to the Pennsylvania Unified Justice System website. And Sayers said they will easily top 1,400 cases by the end of the year.
Last year there were 1,308 total cases.
And not only was his office busy, there were a large number of serious crimes â like murders, rapes, child sex abuse, domestic violence as well as a large number of drug cases, Sayers said