TITLE: ROYVAL

SENTENCING (MIRIAM AVILA)

TYPE : PACKAGE
STORY TIME: 60
NAME:MIRIAM AVILA DNA STORES OUR INFORMATION, AND TODAY IT’S

ALSO STORING A MAN IN PRISON FOR THE REST OF HIS

LIFE FOR BRUTALLY STABBING HIS NEIGHBOR.

(VO)

FREDERICK ROYVAL IS CONVICTED OF BRUTALLY

STABBING HIS NEIGHBOR, BONNIE SANTOS IN 1995.

THE CRIME COULD HAVE GONE UNDISCOVERED IF IT

WASN’T FOR DNA. PROSECUTOR, KATHLEEN MAYER TELLS

US HOW DNA EVIDENCE PLAYED A CRUCIAL PART IN

CONDEMNING THIS CRIMINAL.

(SOT: 15)

MAYER: “Frankly, Mr. Royval came very very close to escaping

apprehension for this crime all together... had an offhand comment
not been made about Mr. Royval being in the neighborhood we
Super: Kathleen would have never collected his buckle cell samples and that was
Mayer/Prosecutor all we had that linked him, until we discovered the hair and that
also had DNA so it was absolutely crucial in this case.”

(VO)

BUCKLE SAMPLES ARE OBTAINED WHEN A COTTON

SWAB IS RUBBED ON THE INSIDE OF A PERSONS CHEEK.

MAYER SAYS SHE’S GRATEFUL THAT THE JUDGE

UNDERSTOOD THE SERVERITY OF THE MURDER AND SHE

THINKS THE VICTIM RECEIVED JUSTICE.

ROYVAL
SENTENCING PG.2 ROYVAL FACES THREE COUNTS BESIDES MURDER.

(SOT:10)

Super: Frederick ROYVAL: “I’m truly sorry for the tragic loss of Bonnie Sanborn.
Royval She was a mother a best friend, a wife. She was everybody, she
was everything to everybody and it was a tragic loss that was
wrongfully taken.”

(LIVE TAG)

ROYVAL AVOIDED THE DEATH PENALTY, BY NOT

APPEALING TO LIFE IN PRISON AND WAS CONVICTED TO 63

YEARS ON TOP OF NATURAL LIFE.