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Nearly eight months ago, Utah prosecutors charged Logan McFarland with aggravated murder in the 2011 deaths of a Mount Pleasant couple.
But in those eight months, McFarland has never made a court appearance and has never been held inside a Utah jail cell.
Utah authorities are still waiting for the 27-year-old man to be extradited from Nevada after McFarland was sentenced to up to 56 years in prison for crimes that took place there.
Sanpete County Attorney Brody Keisel said recently that the extradition is "becoming closer to reality," and that the governors of both states have signed an executive agreement allowing McFarland to be moved to Utah. Keisel said he is awaiting a call that could come "any day" regarding when the defendant will be moved.
No court dates will be set until McFarland is back on Utah soil, Keisel said when the homicide charges were filed last May.
McFarland is charged in 6th District Court with two counts of aggravated murder for the December 2011 slaying of 70-year-old Leroy Fullwood and his 69-year-old wife, Dorothy Ann Fullwood.
McFarland also was charged with one count of first-degree felony aggravated burglary and one count of first-degree felony aggravated robbery, along with second-degree felony burglary of a dwelling and theft of a firearm.
McFarland has long been the suspect of the double-murder, but Keisel said in May that he wanted to wait for Nevada authorities to adjudicate their case against McFarland and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Angela Hill — also known as Angela Atwood. The charges were filed on May 22, 2014, a day after McFarland was sentenced for a Nevada crime spree.
Hill is also was charged with the same counts as McFarland, minus the homicide charges.
On Dec. 31, 2011 — the same day that the Fullwoods were found dead in their home — police say McFarland and Hill tried to carjack a woman's car outside a casino in West Wendover, Nev. After the victim fought off Hill and tried to speed away, she was shot in the head and was later hospitalized.
After the carjacking, police say the couple fled from West Wendover to Wells, and at one point led authorities on a high-speed chase along Interstate 80. The couple was captured by authorities on Jan. 3 after they were spotted crossing the Nevada desert on foot by a rancher checking on cattle from an airplane.
A Nevada jury found McFarland guilty of six counts stemming from the carjacking attempt during a February trial.
Hill pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, kidnapping and robbery relating to the botched carjacking and was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison in October 2013.
In an arrest affidavit filed in 6th District Court that was briefly made public in January 2012, but was later sealed, police alleged that on Dec. 29, 2012, McFarland drove around Mount Pleasant looking for a home to burglarize.
McFarland apparently selected the Fullwood home at random and, late Dec. 29 or early Dec. 30, had friends drop him off on a road behind the residence, according to the affidavit. It was then only a short walk through sagebrush to reach the home.
What exactly happened inside the home hasn't been made public, but the arrest affidavit alleges the home was ransacked, the contents of cupboards and closets "strewn" around the home. By the time McFarland left, the Fullwoods were dead from gunshot wounds.
On Dec. 30, McFarland allegedly called a relative and told him that they needed to talk because "a 'mission' had gone south," according to the probable cause statement. Police allege that McFarland told the relative that he had "dispatched lives" in Sanpete County.
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