2nd Suspect In IA Slaying Pleads Not Guilty
by Associated Press
October 23, 2012 9:55 AM
The second person charged with beating to death a northwest Iowa man has pleaded not guilty.
Twenty-one-year-old Cody Millard, of Spencer, entered the plea to a charge of first-degree murder.
Millard and 21-year-old Christopher Fitzpatrick, also of Spencer, have been charged with killing Edward Kitto. The 59-year-old Kitto was found beaten and unresponsive in the backyard of his Spencer home on Aug. 27. He died at a hospital on Sept. 8.
Fitzpatrick has pleaded not guilty to the murder and two other charges.