{"id":3147,"date":"2018-10-16T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebureaugh.com\/addons\/thegolferonline.com\/golfer\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:06:59","slug":"grisly-details-emerge-in-killing-of-iowa-state-golfer-celia-barquin-arozamena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/blog\/2018\/10\/16\/grisly-details-emerge-in-killing-of-iowa-state-golfer-celia-barquin-arozamena\/","title":{"rendered":"Grisly details emerge in killing of Iowa State golfer Celia Barquin Arozamena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">A month after Iowa State championship golfer\u00a0Celia Barquin Arozamena was found dead on a golf course, court documents show that police have collected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/golf\/2018\/10\/15\/iowa-state-golfer-celia-barquin-arozamena-collin-richards-murder\/1646111002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">several pieces of evidence in connection with her murder<\/a>, including three knives. The suspect, Collin Richards, is currently in jail on $5 million cash bond and is awaiting trial on first-degree murder charges.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Investigators found knives that could match stab wounds<\/h2>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">The new details of Barquin Arozamena\u2019s Sept. 17 murder have come from recently released court documents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/golf\/2018\/10\/15\/iowa-state-golfer-celia-barquin-arozamena-collin-richards-murder\/1646111002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reviewed by the Des Moines Register<\/a>, which contain information about possible murder weapons and Barquin Arozamena\u2019s injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Barquin Arozamena\u2019s body was riddled with stab wounds when it was found. One warrant application reviewed by the Register included information about the location of some of her \u201cgruesome\u201d wounds, which were on her head, neck, left leg and upper torso. An autopsy found that her body had two different serration marks, and that her puncture wounds could have been made by a knife with a blade that\u2019s four inches or longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">The Register reported that the police have found three knives in connection to the murder. Two were found at the scene of a Sept. 20 garage fire, in a home that Richards broke into after the murder. Police say Richards showered there, and they collected physical evidence as well as DNA. Both knives they found had blades longer than four inches, and one was serrated. The third knife was found at a Richards-connected campsite, where they also collected two tents and several articles of clothing.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">When Richards was first interviewed by police after the slaying, he had a fresh cut on his hand. According to the Register, investigators said that the serration on Richards\u2019 cut was consistent with the serration on one of Barquin Arozamena\u2019s wounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Suspect\u2019s Facebook account could reveal more<\/h2>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">While the police have already found evidence from at least a few of their search warrant applications, they\u2019re reportedly still waiting for information from Facebook about Richards\u2019 account. But investigators have found an account that they believe belongs to Richards.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #767d84; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">The social media account, which agents suggested belonged to him, showed a publicly viewable photo updated in\u00a0July that depicted a comic of a person holding a filled coffee cup with a caption \u201clet\u2019s go commit a murder.\u201d The\u00a0person was depicted adding milk to the coffee with another caption that investigators said read \u201clet\u2019s contemplate a murder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">According to an acquaintance, Richards said he had an \u201curge to rape and kill a woman\u201d several days before the murder.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Trial set for January<\/h2>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Richards has been in jail since he was charged with Barquin Arozamena\u2019s murder on Sept. 18, the day after her body was found. Richards, who is being represented by attorneys from the public defender\u2019s office, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/story\/_\/id\/24989690\/january-trial-set-man-charged-killing-iowa-state-golfer-celia-barquin-arozamena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">submitted a written not guilty plea<\/a> on Monday morning and waived his right to a speedy trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">According to the Associated Press, District Judge Bethan Currie ruled that the trial will begin Jan. 15. If he\u2019s convicted, Richards would face life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Source: Liz Roscher , YahooSports\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month after Iowa State championship golfer\u00a0Celia Barquin Arozamena was found dead on a golf course, court documents show that police have collected several pieces of evidence in connection with her murder, including three knives. The suspect, Collin Richards, is currently in jail on $5 million cash bond and is awaiting trial on first-degree murder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-european-golf","8":"category-featured"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolferonline.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}