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City pays to end widow's APD lawsuit
Husband among serial killer's five murders
Updated: Wednesday, 12 Sep 2012, 1:43 PM MDT
Published : Wednesday, 12 Sep 2012, 1:43 PM MDT
- Deanna Sauceda
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The city of Albuquerque has agreed to pay a widow of a murder victim $439,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging police could have arrested the killer before the crime.
Katherine Pierce sued after her husband Scott was killed by serial killer Clifton Bloomfield in 2008.
Pierce's lawyers said police should have arrested Bloomfield earlier. That would have prevented Pierce's murder and the 2007 death of a Korean couple.
City attorneys say officers did nothing wrong.
Bloomfield broke into the Pierce's home at the behest of Jason Skaggs intending to rough up a man Skaggs believed was sleeping with his wife. The Pierces, however, had just moved into the house and had no connection to Skaggs.
Scott Pierce was killed as he came to the defense of his wife of six days.
Bloomfield is serving 195 years for five murders.
Skaggs was sentenced to 30 years for second-degree murder.
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