In 2000, Briley Piper, Elijah Page and Darrell Hoadley tortured and killed Chester Allan Poage near Spearfish. Piper and Page received death sentences; Hoadley was sentenced to life in prison. Page ...

One of his co-defendants, Elijah Page, was executed in 2007, while the other, Darrell Hoadley, is serving life in prison. Although Briley Piper was not present to defend himself in court ...

Elijah Page, Briley Piper, and Darrell Hoadley were all convicted in the torture and murder of Poage. Page and Piper were sentenced to death. Page was executed by lethal injection in 2007.

Behind the walls of the SD State Penitentiary: Part I Three suspects emerged: Briley Piper, Elijah Page and Darrell Hoadley. But, per court documents, “Piper was the leader in this case in the ...