Napa Jury Deliberates In Trial Of Man Charged In 3-Year-Old Girl's Killing

NAPA COUNTY, CA -- Jurors were deliberating Friday morning in Napa County Superior Court at the trial of man charged with the murder with torture and assault causing the death of a 3-year-Napa girl in 2014.

Two separate juries are hearing evidence against Sara Lynn Krueger, 27, and Ryan Scott Warner, 29, of Napa who are charged with the blunt force trauma death of Krueger's daughter Kayleigh Slusher at the Royal
Gardens apartment complex in Napa on Jan. 30, 2014.

The girl's body, which had been placed in a freezer, was found on Feb. 1, 2014, in a suitcase on a bed in an apartment. Krueger and Warner were arrested on Feb. 2 at an El Cerrito BART station.

The jury hearing the evidence against Krueger reached a verdict Thursday after a day or deliberation, but the verdict has been sealed until a separate jury reaches a verdict against Warner. Jurors were expected to deliberate until noon Friday and return Tuesday if they did not reach a verdict this morning.

The Napa County District Attorney's Office is not seeking the death penalty against the defendants. Krueger and Warner face 25 years to life in prison on each of the murder and assault causing the death of a child
charges.

The trial is before Judge Francisca Tisher.

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By Bay City News Service

Photos via Napa Police Department