Camden man found guilty of murder — again
Steven Ralph Teater, 46, of Camden, was convicted for the third time of second-degree murder and second-degree attempted murder for crimes he committed in 2003. He was sentenced Thursday in a Magnolia courtroom to 30 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to the Magnolia Banner-News.
Teater admitted to killing his wife, Becky Teater, who was 41 when she died, and shooting Roderick McKinney. His defense was that he had a mental disease or defect at the time the crimes were committed.
Teater was convicted by a jury in Camden in 2003 and then in a retrial in Magnolia in 2005. Both times, the verdict was overturned by the Arkansas Court of Appeals, which ruled that Circuit Court Judge Edwin Keaton failed to instruct the jury to consider Teater’s mental state while deliberating.