REPUBLIC, Mo. — The murders were so brazen, so brutal, they stunned the people of Missouri. Just after midnight on June 22, 2000, Michael Tisius and Tracie Bulington entered a county jail ...

denying his appeal that included seven arguments that combated the sentence. Tisius and fellow inmate Roy Vance's girlfriend, Tracie Bulington, were convicted on murder charges in 2001 for ...