Trio Accused of Murdering Prominent Fairfax Therapist Due in Court

By Bay City News Service:

Two San Francisco men and a San Rafael woman charged with a murder in Marin County and in San Francisco are scheduled back in Marin County Superior Court Thursday morning.

Morrison Haze Lampley, 23, Sean Michael Angold, 24, both of San Francisco, and Lila Scott Alligood, 18, of San Rafael have not entered pleas to the murders of therapist Steven Carter, 67, of Fairfax on Oct. 5 and Audrey Carey, 23, a tourist from Quebec, Canada, found dead in Golden Gate Park on Oct. 2.

The defendants were arrested Oct. 7 outside a dining hall in Portland, Oregon when investigators traced them there with the GPS in Carter’s car.

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The three defendants are charged with special circumstances of lying in wait, multiple murder and murder during commission of a robbery. They face life in prison without parole or the death penalty.

All three defendants were allegedly armed during the murder but Lampley is identified in the complaint as the shooter. Lampley also is named as the defendant who shot Carter’s female doberman pinscher Coco, who was still leashed to Carter when he was slain. He is charged with animal cruelty.

The complaint states the defendants, who also are charged with robbery, stole Carter’s Volkswagen Jetta and camping equipment from Carey, including a tent, daypack, tarp, and sleeping bag, and airline tickets and a passport. Lampley was convicted on July 7, of buying or receiving a stolen vehicle in San Diego on May 26.

In the complaint filed by District Attorney Ed Berberian he is charged with being a felon in possession of a Smith and Wesson firearm that was stolen in San Francisco.

Carter was a well-known therapist who founded the Lake County-based Ecstatic Living Institute along with his wife, Lokita Carter, in 1999.