A Judge Rules That a Woman Accused of 2 Murders Is Incompetent to Stand Trial
A Clark County judge has found a woman accused of killing her husband in 2005 and a former college professor five years ago is incompetent to stand trial.
Rita Colon, 46, was ordered Friday to be held at a state-run maximum-security psychiatric facility until doctors determine she is fit to stand trial.
Colon fled to Peru after the death of former University of Nevada, Las Vegas, professor Leroy Pelton, 77. He was found dead in his Henderson home about a month after he died. Grand jury transcripts obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal show he had been stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen and neck.
Colon tried gain access to more than $1 million in Pelton’s retirement fund before suddenly moving to Peru with her mother and young daughter, according to testimony heard by the grand jury.
