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Tyrone
CADE
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Fit of rage and jealousy
Number of victims: 2
Date of murders: March 27, 2011
Date of arrest:
Same day
Date of birth: November 30, 1972
Victims profile:
Mischell Fuller, 37 (his live-in-girlfriend) and her
daughter, Desaree Hoskins, 18
Name: Cade, Tyrone
TDCJ Number: 999575
Date of Birth: 11/30/1972
Date Received: 09/06/2012
Age (when Received): 40
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed): 12
Date of Offense: 03/27/2011
Age (at the time of Offense): 39
County: Dallas
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Hair Color: Black
Height: 5'09"
Weight: 210
Eye Color: Brown
Native County: Dallas
Native State: Texas
Prior Occupation
Forklift Operator, Warehouse
Prior Prison Record
#1196245 - 3 year sentence from Collin County for Sexual Assault.
Offender discharged upon expiration of the sentence on May 30, 2006.
Summary of Incident
Subject started stabbing his girlfriend, the
victim, with a kitchen knife while they were in bed during the
nighttime hours with a knife he kept under the bed. The victim's
daughter heard the screams and the subject stabbed her. Both females
died as a result of their injuries.
Co-Defendants
None
Race and Gender of Victim
Two Black Females
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Irving man gets death penalty for killing his
girlfriend and her daughter
By Jennifer Emily - DallasNews.com
August 29, 2012
It took less than three hours Wednesday for a
Dallas County jury to impose a death sentence on a man who admitted
brutally and fatally stabbing his girlfriend and her daughter in a fit
of rage and jealousy.
One of the jurors began sniffing and then tears
streamed down her face as state District Judge Mark Stoltz formally
sentenced Tyrone Cade to death for the murders of 37-year-old Mischell
Fuller and 18-year-old Desaree Hoskins.
Cade, 37, appeared to take the verdict in stride,
stroking his chin with his left hand as he sat next to his attorneys.
The same jury last week rejected an insanity
defense and convicted Cade of capital murder. Cade told police that he
stabbed the women dozens of times at their Irving home in March 2011
after secretly recording Fuller having a provocative Skype
conversation with her ex-husband.
Cade, who had been convicted of sexual assault in
Collin County in 2002, then raped Fuller.
To determine Cade’s punishment, jurors had to
decide whether they believed Cade would commit a future act of
violence. They answered yes and then considered whether there was
anything mitigating in Cade’s background that would warrant a life
sentence instead of death. Jurors voted that there was not.
Hoskins’ aunt, Andrea Hoskins Coats, wiped away
tears as she approached the witness stand to address Cade in a victim
impact statement after he was sentenced.
“I don’t think you really grasp what you did. I
don’t think you understand what you stole,” she said in a soft voice.
“I can’t believe you would do something to this extent and still fight
for your life when you didn’t allow them to.”
Noting that defense attorneys had asked the jury to
show Cade mercy with a sentence of life without parole instead of
death, Coats told Cade: “You don’t deserve mercy. You are a monster.”
Fuller, who worked at a rehabilitation facility,
was a native of Belize who moved to the U.S. when she was 9 and later
became an American citizen. Hoskins had been looking forward to prom
and graduation. She was hoping to join the Navy.
Fuller had been trying to get Cade to move out of
her home and the two had not had sex for months at the time of the
murders, according to testimony. Both Fuller’s son and Hoskins did not
like Cade and didn’t want their mother dating him.
After the verdict, Brandy Besio, the mother of
Cade’s 12-year-old daughter, sobbed alone on a bench in the hallway as
she rocked back and forth. Cade confessed to the murders to Besio, who
drove him to the police station where he told police about what he had
done, according to testimony.
“There’s nothing to say,” Besio said Wednesday,
wiping her nose and eyes with her shirt. “My daughter loses her dad on
top of her stepmom and stepsister.”
In Coats’ victim impact statement, Coats told Cade
that she would “pray you never see” the daughter again. Coats said she
didn’t want his thoughts passed on to the girl.
The family of Fuller and Hoskins declined to
comment further.
In closing arguments, prosecutors Heath Harris,
Rachael Jones and Jason Hermus told jurors that Cade deserved to die
for his crimes.
Harris urged jurors to send a message to other
batterers and impose a death sentence on Cade.
If you “act like the worst of the worst, then we
will punish you like the worst of the worst,” Harris said during
closing arguments.
Jones told jurors Cade was a manipulator and “an
evil capital murderer who will be a threat every day for the rest of
his life.”
Defense attorneys Lalon “Clipper” Peale, John Tatum
and Richard Franklin urged jurors to show mercy.
They said that Cade’s background — a broken home,
emotional abandonment, an allegation of sexual abuse by his late
mother, low IQ, depression, constant back pain from a football injury
— were enough for jurors to vote for the lesser sentence.
Cade’s father also suffers from a bipolar disorder
and schizophrenia but there is no evidence Cade suffers more than mild
depression brought on by his legal situation.
Peale said that Cade’s background is “not an
excuse, it’s an explanation.”
Victim of 1999 rape testifies in sentencing
phase for man who killed girlfriend, her daughter
By Jennifer Emily - DallasNews.com
August 27, 2012
The brutality Tyrone Cade inflicted by stabbing his
girlfriend and her daughter dozens of times was first on display more
than a decade earlier when he raped a woman who befriended him at a
laundromat.
The woman that Cade, 39, was convicted of raping at
her Collin County apartment testified Monday before the Dallas County
jury that will decide whether he receives a death sentence or life
without parole for the murders.
Back in 1999, when Cade sexually assaulted her, the
woman was 21, going to college and working for a broadcasting company.
Today, she’s 33, pregnant and in jail on drug charges.
The woman told jurors during the punishment phase
of Cade’s trial that throughout the assault, Cade repeatedly told her:
“Don’t make me kill you like the last girl.”
The woman is not being named because The Dallas
Morning News does not typically name victims of sex crimes. She
cried or choked back tears throughout her testimony and wore a
green-and-gray-striped jail uniform.
The woman was charged in 2003 with possession of a
controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with the
intent to deliver. She was given deferred adjudication probation,
which was later revoked. Neither her testimony or court records
indicated the reason.
She testified that she had been promised nothing
from prosecutors about her drug cases in exchange for her testimony
against Cade in the murders of Mishell Fuller, 37, and 18-year-old
Desaree Hoskins in March 2011 at their Irving home.
Cade appeared to watch the woman intently as she
testified, leaning forward in his seat. This was a marked difference
from his demeanor before jurors found him guilty of capital murder
Friday. For the first week of the trial, Cade almost always slumped to
the left in his seat and often had a hand over his face.
Fuller had been trying to end her relationship with
Cade and was rekindling a romance with her ex-husband when he killed
her. He refused to leave her home and had secretly recorded a
provocative Skype conversation between Fuller and her ex-husband.
Cade confessed to the murders and to sexually
assaulting Fuller after he stabbed her.
Another woman testified Monday that Cade followed
her for months after she broke up with him in the 1990s. She testified
that he would call frequently from a pay phone near her home. He
finally left her alone.
The woman Cade sexually assaulted told jurors they
were just friends when the assault happened. She testified that they’d
never gone on a date and nothing sexual had ever happened between
them.
The woman told jurors that she invited Cade to go
out for drinks with her and her coworkers. Afterward, she showed him
her new apartment. But when she tried to leave to go to her
boyfriends’ house, Cade raped her, she testified.
As soon as she put her hand on the door knob, she
said, he grabbed her arm and threw her to the floor.
The woman said the more she struggled, the rougher
he got. He held onto her wrist tightly to keep her from moving away,
and at times used his body weight to keep her from getting off the
floor, and later, her bed.
“The more I fought, the worse it got,” she said
tearfully, at times covering her face with a tissue. “He was just too
strong for me to get away from.”
To save her life, she said, she pretended to
consent and “tried to make him think it was OK.” She even convinced
him to use a condom. At one point, she was able to grab a small knife
and stab him. But the wound was superficial and the assault continued.
After the assault, he left behind a belt, shirt and
a picture of him and his girlfriend.
The following day, Cade left her a voicemail, she
said. “He said he was ‘sorry.’ ”
The woman said she didn’t tell her parents about
the rape because “I was so ashamed.”
The case went to court in 2002 and a Collin County
jury gave Cade three years’ probation.
“He took everything from me … and he didn’t get
anything for it,” she testified.
Cade violated probation in 2003 and a judge ordered
him to prison for three years. According to testimony, Cade was kicked
out of sex offender treatment. He refused orders preventing him from
being around children because he wanted to see his daughter and he
denied the rape occurred.
Many details about what happened before and
sometimes during the rape were fuzzy, the woman said. They may have
smoked marijuana before. She said she couldn’t remember.
Prosecutor Rachael Jones asked the woman if she
tried to forget the sexual assault.
“Everyday,” the woman responded.
But she said she can’t.
Dallas County jurors find man guilty of capital
murder, reject insanity defense
By Jennifer Emily - DallasNews.com
August 24, 2012
A Dallas County jury on Friday found a man guilty
of capital murder, rejecting his claims that he didn’t know right from
wrong when he killed his girlfriend and her daughter.
The punishment phase of Tyrone Cade’s trial will
begin Monday as prosecutors ask jurors to send him to death row for
the brutal stabbing deaths of 37-year-old Mischell Fuller and
18-year-old Desaree Hoskins in March 2011 at their Irving home.
Jurors deliberated nearly 90 minutes before
reaching the guilty verdict.
After the presiding juror read the verdict, Cade
sat in his chair, slumped to the left with a hand over his face – a
common position throughout the trial. When he stood as jurors filed
out of the courtroom, he closed his eyes. The family of Fuller and
Hoskins left without commenting.
Defense attorneys Lalon “Clipper” Peale, Richard
Franklin and John Tatum tried to convince jurors that Cade, 39, was
not guilty by reason of insanity – meaning a mental disease or defect
prevented him from knowing right from wrong.
They said physical and sexual abuse as a child,
chronic back pain, depression, unemployment, suspicions that Fuller
cheated on him and Fuller trying to end their relationship culminated
in a mental break that led to the murders.
“He snapped. He went off the chain,” Peale told
jurors in closing arguments. “They build up and build up.”
But prosecutors Heath Harris, Jason Hermus and
Rachael Jones told jurors that killing the women was an evil act and
that Cade knew exactly what he was doing when he stabbed Fuller and
then Hoskins.
“The insanity defense – are you kidding me?” Harris
said to jurors, telling them that the stabbings of the women and rape
of Fuller was about “dominance,” “control,” “punishing” and
“retribution.”
A doctor who examined Cade for prosecutors found
that he was not insane at the time of the murders, according to
testimony. Defense experts who reviewed records and literature
testified that it was possible Cade did not know right from wrong. But
because they did not interview Cade, they could not offer a definitive
opinion.
Since Cade’s arrest, he has been treated for minor
depression, according to testimony. But there was no prior indication
of a history of mental illness, although his father suffers from
schizophrenia and a bipolar disorder.
Cade admitted to police that he stabbed the women
after secretly recording Fuller having a provocative Skype
conversation with her ex-husband.
Cade told police in a video recorded interview that
he tried to question Fuller at knife point at their Irving home about
the conversation. But he said he stabbed her because she would not be
silent. Cade said he stabbed Hoskins when she ran into the room after
hearing her mother’s screams.
Cade was previously convicted of sexual assault in
Collin County in 2002.
Irving murder suspect looks away as prosecutors
show autopsy photos
By Jennifer Emily - DallasNews.com
August 21, 2012
Tyrone Cade looked away Tuesday to avoid seeing
autopsy photos showing the stab wounds he inflicted on his girlfriend
and her daughter.
Cade, 39, covered his eyes with his left hand and
hung his head as prosecutors showed jurors the images of Mischell
Fuller, 37, and her 18-year-old daughter, Desaree Hoskins, on large
television screens during his capital murder trial in a Dallas
courtroom.
Most of the jurors probably could not see Cade.
Three prosecutors, audio visual equipment, two desks and three defense
attorneys sat between Cade and the jury box.
Cade, who turned himself in to Irving police and
confessed to the March 2011 slayings, faces a possible death sentence
if jurors convict him of capital murder. The defense plans to argue
that the jury should find him not guilty by reason of insanity,
meaning Cade had a mental disease or defect that caused him not to
know right from wrong at the time of the slayings.
Prosecutors say Cade killed Fuller and Hoskins
because Cade was jealous and angry. He had recorded Fuller having a
provocative conversation on Skype with her ex-husband, Carlton
Hoskins.
Forensic pathologist Jill Urban testified that
Hoskins had 39 wounds and Fuller had 28. One of the wounds to Hoskins’
neck went into her spinal cord. Both women had knife injuries that
penetrated their lungs.
In a video of an interview with Irving police
played for jurors, Cade admitted stabbing Fuller and then Hoskins. He
admitted sexually assaulting Fuller, who had been trying to make him
move out of her house. They had not had sex for several months, Cade
said.
Cade cried throughout the videotaped interview. He
was often difficult to understand because he was sobbing or mumbling.
Prosecutors provided jurors with a transcript of the video.
At the end of the interview, Cade said to police:
“How fast can I go to trial and get it over with? … Get the death
penalty, man … just get it over with. I’m just in a hurry, man. I’m
ready to die, dude. Wish I could speed it up. I don’t want to have to
go through no trial.”
Cade told police that he came home after spending
the evening with his cousin at a strip club, according to testimony.
He then listened to a recorder he’d set up to document what Fuller did
while he was gone. The recording captured the Skype conversation
Fuller had with her ex-husband.
Cade said he then tossed and turned in bed before
waking up Fuller and pointing the knife at her. He told police that he
just wanted to question Fuller. But he started stabbing Fuller when
she wouldn’t remain quiet. Cade said Fuller fell off the bed trying to
get away from him.
Cade said he stabbed Hoskins when she came to help
her mother.
After the slayings, Cade said, he took pictures
around the house out of frames and photo albums and burned them.
Empty frames and albums were found in a black trash
bag inside the house. Charred remains of photos were found in a grill.
Earlier testimony indicated that when Fuller was
mad at Cade, she would take down photos of Cade, which upset him.
Cade was convicted of sexual assault in Collin
County in 2002. Starting in 2007, when Fuller bought the house, Cade
used her home as his address when he registered as a sex offender,
according to testimony.
Testimony is expected to resume Wednesday.
Dallas County death penalty trial underway for
man accused of killing girlfriend and her teenage daughter
By Jennifer Emily - DallasNews.com
August 20, 2012
Dallas County First Assistant District Attorney
Heath Harris told jurors in opening arguments that they should have no
difficulty convicting Tyrone Cade of capital murder.
“This case is not a complex mystery,” he said.
Harris told jurors that Cade killed Mischell
Fuller, 37, and her 18-year-old daughter, Desaree Hoskins because Cade
was jealous. He had recorded Fuller having an intimate conversation on
Skype with her exhusband, Carlton Hoskins, and was angry.
Cade, Harris said, was a “wannabee ladies man.”
Cade could “turn on the charm in the blink of an
eye, turn on the tears in the blink of eye,” Harris said. “But he
could also turn on the aggression in the blink of an eye.”
Harris told jurors that the defense planned to
prove Cade was not guilty by reason of insanity, meaning the defense
believes Cade had a mental disease or defect at the time of the
slayings that cause him not to know the difference between right and
wrong.
Defense attorneys Lalon “Clipper” Peale, John Tatum
and Richard Franklin delayed making an opening statement, so no
further details were provided to jurors before a lunch break.
Irving Police Officer Aaron Shook testified that
Cade turned himself in at the police station, saying that “he had
killed a couple of people.”
Shook told jurors that he grabbed a knife to
question Fuller but then she screamed for her daughter and started
kicking. He then stabbed them both to death.
Shook said that Cade handed over three cell phones
and one of them appeared to have blood on it.
On a recording of 911 call made from the lobby of
the police station before talking to officers, Cade appears to be
crying as he says, “I killed two people … Yeah, I killed them … I
stabbed them to death.”
Cade says on the 911 call: “I just snapped.”
He said that he wishes he could get the death
penalty. He said he also tried to kill himself but he was “too
punkish” to go through with it.
Fuller’s mother, Elena Belcher, tearfully testified
about her daughter and granddaughter, struggling to maintain her
composure on the witness stand. She began sobbing when prosecutors
showed her photos of her daughter and granddaughter.
Belcher told jurors that her daughter was afraid of
Cade because he threatened to burn the house down with her in it after
Fuller asked Cade to move out. Fuller had wanted Cade to leave for
some time after finding out he was a registered sex offender,
according to testimony.
About a week before their deaths, Fuller and her
daughter went to Florida where they went to Disney World and saw
Fuller’s ex-husband, who also the father of her children, according to
testimony.
Mother, Daughter Found Stabbed to Death in
Irving
Nbcdfw.com
March 28, 2011
Police say a mother and daughter were found slain
at an Irving home after a man walked into the police department Sunday
night and admitted to the killings.
Irving police said Tyrone Cade, a 38-year-old
registered sex offender, told officers he had killed two people at his
home in the 1400 block of Ronne Drive.
Officers went to the residence and found the bodies
of Mischell Fuller, 37; and her daughter, Desaree Hoskins, 18, both of
Irving.
Investigators said Cade admitted to stabbing
Fuller, his live-in girlfriend, after he heard her talking with her
former husband on a recording from a device Cade left under the bed.
Police said Hoskins was stabbed while trying to
save her mother.
Irving police said Cade considered suicide and even
left he note. More than 16 hours after he killed Fuller and Hoskins,
he turned himself in, police said.
Police say Cade confessed in police lobby
Investigators said Cade walked into the front lobby
of the Irving Police Department at about 8:30 p.m. and called 911.
"When he came in here -- at that late at night,
there's not anyone here," Officer John Argumaniz said. "So what he did
was, he used his phone, and then he called and he said, 'Hey, I want
to talk to an officer about what took place, so they sent an officer
here to talk to him."
Police said it appeared Cade, Fuller and Hoskins
all lived at the residence.
Cade has been charged with one count of capital
murder.
Friends mourn mother, daughter
A makeshift memorial is growing outside Cade's
south Irving home.
"We didn't see this coming," said Norma Argueta, a
friend of Fuller's. "We did not expect that anything like this would
happen to her. We were looking forward to our children graduating high
school, and she was moving on for the next chapter in her life."
Dozens of shaken students at Irving High School
spoke with grief counselors Monday.
"[A] lot of people are suffering today because of
her loss," said J. Pat Lamb of the Irving Independent School District.
"It's a testament to her character. They liked her; she liked them."
Hoskins, who friends called Dee Dee, was about to
graduate.
"Class of 2011 won't be the same without her," said
Stephanie Delfin, a friend. "She was, she was part of us, and when we
graduate, it's going to be for her. This is all for her now."
