Phillip Scott Lieurance, the Emporia man accused of killing two Emporia women found in eastern Colorado nearly a year ago, is now into Colorado’s criminal court process.
Lieurance has a pretrial hearing Tuesday on single counts of first-degree murder and second-degree murder, reflecting the alleged homicides of Amy Ford and Linda Estrada, respectively. He also faces two counts of tampering with a body as part of the alleged killings Sept. 10.
Charges were officially filed June 17, according to Colorado court documents provided to KVOE News. He was released from the Kansas correctional facility in Lansing to Colorado on June 4, according to information from the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Extradition conversations between Kansas and Colorado took place over several months, both during and following criminal court proceedings in Lyon County after Lieurance rammed his SUV into at least one other vehicle on the Kansas Turnpike near Emporia a few days after Estrada and Ford were allegedly murdered. In November, Lieurance pleaded no contest to three counts of aggravated battery, two of which were for driving under the influence. Lieurance was sentenced to 34 months in prison in January.
