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Viva Leroy Nash, in a prison photo circa 1990.
Viva Leroy Nash, in a prison photo circa 1990.

McCullough pauses for a moment to consider a final thought, folds her hands on the kitchen table and goes on, her voice strong now.

"This guy hurt so many people, besides being a murderer of an innocent kid [West]," she says. "What happened just spread out like a tentacle or a spider web of hurt. You know, there is good and evil in this world."

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  • 09/07/2011 5:33:00 AM

    You know... With a name like "Leroy" I really didn't expect a White guy... I'm sure this old fart would STILL have enough SPUNK for one last crime spree... Give him some viagra and geritol and let him loose in Afghanistan....

  • moxiee 06/22/2011 4:58:00 AM

    there is no deterrent if there is no death penalty ... wtf should these fucknuts stop killing for if they are only going to jail for 25 years with the possiblity of getting out after 10 to do it again ...... plus its free food and accomodation and medical which they wouldnt have if they were out on the streets

  • 10/18/2010 8:15:00 PM

    ok... he's dead... but all you freaking idiots that think that the death penalty should be abolished ... i got an idea for ya ... why dont you start an adopt a prisoner program... you can adopt and pay for him... cause i refuse... he should have been executed about 1950 therefore the 2 people after the cop would still be alive... when will you wake up and see ... if it starts as a bad seed it will always be a bad seed... just waiting to make someones else life rot away... and like the other comment states... his entire set of offspring is just as worthless as he is... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Adarc 06/08/2010 2:36:00 PM

    "sooner or later, the execution of older prisoners will reveal the cruel and unusual punishment the death penalty is, along with the fact that it was purely senseless murder." Is that truly a crueler punishment than what these killers inflict on both their victims and their victims families? How can it be crueler than the state indefinitely delaying the justice due to the families of these victims. What gives them the right to overrule the judge & jury's decision?

  • I.M Pistoff 02/17/2010 7:08:00 PM

    This piece of excrement has now died, and good riddance; he should have been executed years ago.

  • charlie vanriper 09/16/2009 7:16:00 PM

    This is probably to tuff a statement for the lilly livered press to allow to be posted, but here are my thoughts. If you do post it you will have earned my respect: That creep needs to die behind bars without forgiveness and pity, whether he is sane or insane, whether he has Cognent thought or not. As Rubin says he has expressed Cognent abilities in his letters, let him die and give Gregs family justice. He murdered a young man who was a wonderful friend, had a brite future and a beautiful wife ( Cindy ) this lifelong crimminal took his life without pity and with cold blooded vengence, without any thought for his family. This man sold his Eternal Soul to the Devil and his just reward is Eternal Damnation without God, and the Morarally corrupt and low life Atty's that represent him will burn in Hell also.

  • paul woodhurst 08/24/2009 1:00:00 AM

    This man murdered my father here in 1977.. I was 7 at the time.. There are many things i have forgiven him for.. all revolving around my own personal life and issues.. many more i have not.. all i want to do is to is have just one more door to close.. as of the moment i have no idea if he still lives or if he is now dead.. i am assuming the former.. only to make an ass of my self w/ him attached one final time.. i can wish him no peace in his after life.. hell i don't even know if i can wish anything on him at all anymore.. thanks for the article.. it was.. enlightening.. and the best of wishes to Susan McCullough.. you have seen the eyes of my deepest hatred.. no easy task..

  • kent 08/10/2009 5:56:00 PM

    I am embarrassed to admit I was married to this jerk's granddaughter. She and all of the progeny are worthless.

  • Jim Thornton 04/20/2009 6:00:00 AM

    Why does the writer of this article only look at the murderer, and NOT the victim? If I killed a 90 year old person, and even stretching it to the longest known life of 120 years, I should get at MOST 30 years in prison. But what about the victim? What about the life cut short for the victim? What about family members of the victim? They will have to live with it for the rest of their lives. Before looking at the age of the murderer, look at the ages of the ENTIRE family of the victim, and how they will have to cope with it for probably MUCH longer than that old murderer has left to live, even if he's never executed. Our first concern should be the victim and the victim's family. NOT the murderer. The murderer chose to kill and put the victim's family and his/her OWN family through this. NEVER forget that. TWO families hurt? Yes. But that is the choice the MURDERER made. HE/SHE made both his victim's family and his own family go through the hurt. HE/SHE is the ONLY one to blame.

  • Jim Thornton 04/20/2009 5:44:00 AM

    That's ludicrous. Someone who commits murder should not be executed because he's too old? What's next? If I kill a 90 year old person, I should not be punished because that person was about to die anyway? You do the crime, you do the time. I don't care how old you are. Turning 80 or 90 does NOT give you a free pass to just go around killing people without getting punished.

  • mab 01/09/2009 7:56:00 PM

    I don't think this man deserved not even 1 sentence written about him, let alone 7 or 8 pages. The attorneys that defended him and keep him from getting executed are doing a disservice to the community. They just care about the Benjamins. Defense attorneys need to stick to defending the wrongly accused... do their best to prove they are not guilty of anything and give them back their freedom. But then, they probably would be broke if those were their only clients. As much crime as there is out there, they are laughing all the way to the bank.

  • Nate 12/25/2008 7:17:00 PM

    Send him to tent city.He'll be dead in 2 days!

  • Francotirador 12/25/2008 2:37:00 PM

    This old fart wants to get out so he can kill one last time--just let me rot awhile longer, then nature will take its course. To bad he didn't try and rob the jewelry store in chandler in 1982--problem would have been solved long ago.

  • Sophia 12/23/2008 11:49:00 PM

    Trust me, no one is going to get that outraged over killing this guy as opposed to killing some of the other guys on Death Row, especially when his story is told.

  • Editorial Assistant 12/11/2008 5:30:00 PM

    Leroy Nash�s a cold-blooded killer who deserves capital punishment at any age. Why�s there even a dilemma about this after all the evil this man has done. The way he killed that poor young guy [Greg West] was heartless. He didn�t even need to kill him. He shot him before West even went for a gun behind the counter. Then, to act like he�s sorry about what he did. He�s not sorry. He�s a rattlesnake. And poor Susan McCullough, after going through that, nobody would ever be the same in this lifetime. You would always be looking over your shoulder for the next Leroy Nash. And she�s right that, even if he�s 100, Nash would hurt somebody if they were to let him out of prison. Your story sent chills up and down my spine. Martin Tillman, Phoenix via email

  • Editorial Assistant 12/11/2008 5:30:00 PM

    My heart goes out to Susan McCullough. It�s almost worse for her than poor Greg West. To be still alive and haunted by that tragic day would be the worst kind of torture. Your description of the scene in the coin shop on the day Greg died made me sick to my stomach. Mary Ann O�Malley, address withheld via email

  • Dededo Santa 12/10/2008 12:18:00 AM

    Hey, this guy needs a lemonparty! As the saying from the Spike Feresten clip goes "So before your'all departed, get your lemonparty started."

  • Lefty 12/05/2008 8:15:00 PM

    Can't the State of Arizona just execute this old jerk so we never have to read about him again? Please, do it tomorrow.

  • Grim Reaper 12/04/2008 5:08:00 PM

    The State can bring closure to this; execute infamous British prisoner Charles Bronson's "hero". Then send Mr. Bronson a picture, letting him know that whether they gassed him, injected him or fried him, they did indeed kill the man. And rightfully so.

  • Alvrus 12/04/2008 4:36:00 PM

    A psychopath, whether 23 or 93 years of age, is still a psychopath. What a shame -- but hardly surprising -- that the Arizona legal system failed so many victims in this case by failing to ensure justice.

 
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