Trial begins in videotaped sex killing of Mo. woman

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -- The trial begins for a man accused of the 2006 videotaped sex killing of a suburban Kansas City woman.

Forty-three-year-old Richard Davis faces 40 felony counts, including capital murder, kidnapping and rape in the 2006 death of 41-year-old Marsha Spicer, of Independence, Mo.

Jackson County prosecutor Ted Hunt said during his opening statement Friday that Davis and his 42-year-old girlfriend, Dena Riley, lured Spicer to his Independence apartment and "did not intend to let her leave alive."

Hunt showed the jury and judge several slides from videotapes the couple had made of themselves brutalizing and raping Spicer while her hands and eyes were covered with duct tape.

Hunt says Davis beat and raped Spicer, while his girlfriend smothered her during a sex act.

Defense attorneys have not yet given an opening statement.

Riley's trial is scheduled for next year.