Subject: Cindy Monkman

• WHEN UNDERWRITERS BECOME UNDERTAKERS DESPITE GLARING WARNING SIGNS, THE INSURERS APPROVED THE HEFTY LIFE-INSURANCE POLICY-- AND GAVE TWO CON MEN A REASON TO KILL

  December 8, 1994

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, May 10, 2007

  May 10, 2007

• Katie & Jordy's Excellent Adventure

  The incredibly true story of two Tempe women and the photograph that helped convict Scott Peterson

  January 13, 2005

• Judge Vacates Death Penalty for German Killer -- Finds That Rudi Apelt is Retarded

  Arizona Department of CorrectionsMichael and Rudy Apelt Rudi Apelt, a German national sentenced to death in Pinal County in 1989, cannot be killed because he is mentally retarded, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sylvia Arrellano ruled yesterday.Both Apelt and his brother, Michael, were sentenced to death after they brutally murdered Michael's wife, Cindy Monkman, in hopes of cashing in on an insurance policy. Both brothers then claimed they were retarded -- and therefore could not be execut

  May 20, 2009

• "Retarded" German Killer Rudi Apelt Sentenced (Again)

  Arizona Department of Corrections Michael Apelt (left) remains on death row, but Rudi Apelt can't be executedRudi Apelt, a German national whose brutal murder of a local woman led to a death sentence in 1989, got a reprieve from death row in May after his lawyers convinced a judge that he is mentally retarded.But Apelt won't be getting out of prison anytime soon. Yesterday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sylvia Arellano ruled that Apelt's sentences for murder and conspiracy should r

  July 22, 2009