Havasu teen killer held for quarter century
It was 25 Thanksgivings ago when police discovered the bodies of an elderly couple within their arson-scorched home on Pueblo Drive in Lake Havasu City. Investigation quickly linked the deaths of the octogenarians to a 16-year-old boy still imprisoned today. James Davolt, now 41, became the focus of worldwide attention as members of the Amnesty International organization protested as “barbaric” the pursuit of a death sentence for a teenager by the Mohave County Attorney’s Office. Members of the group from Portugal, Spain, Denmark and many other far-flung nations wrote scores of letters to legal officials and the media asking for…