INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -- A suburban Kansas City man was found guilty Thursday of the sexual torture and slaying of a woman whose death was videotaped.

Richard D. Davis, 44, of Independence, was found guilty of 25 counts, including first-degree murder, kidnapping, rape and sodomy, in the assault and death of Marsha Spicer, 41, also of Independence, and the assault of Michelle Huff-Ricci, 36.

The key evidence in the case was videotapes Davis made of the attacks on Spicer and Huff-Ricci, who were raped, beaten killed in the spring of 2006. During the weeklong trial, jurors watched graphic DVD recordings taken from the videotapes.

Davis was acquitted on one count of first-degree assualt related to the attack on Huff-Ricci.

Jurors, who deliberated for less than four hours before reaching the verdict, will now determine whether Davis will face the death penalty. The sentencing portion of the trial was scheduled to begin Friday morning.

Prosecutors said that the Davis and his girlfriend, Dena Riley, videotaped the slaying to fulfill his violent sexual fantasies. Prosecutors said Davis held Spicer down while his girlfriend smothered her by sitting on her face.

Riley is scheduled to go to trial next year in that killing.

Davis and Riley also are charged in neighboring Clay County with capital murder in the April 2006 suffocation of Huff-Ricci.

Defense attorney Tom Jacquinot admitted that Davis killed Spicer but urged jurors to find him guilty of second-degree murder. Jacquinot argued that the slaying was not planned and that Davis simply became caught up in his own "horrible fantasies" about killing.

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