| Date of birth: | Jul 23, 1961 |
| Ethnicity: | CAUCASIAN |
| Hair: | Brown |
| Eyes: | Blue |
| Unit: | ASPC Eyman SMU II |
| Status: | ACTIVE |
| Release type: | RET. FM. HOSP. |
| Most recent loc: | ASPC Eyman |
| Last movement: | Jul 1, 2000 |
| Inmate number: | 069007 |
| Inmate detainee: | INMATE |
| Custody class: | 5/3 |
| Crime description: | INMATE 069007 - COOK, DANIEL W. Cook, John Matzke, and Carlos Froyan Cruz-Ramos worked at a restaurant in Lake Havasu City and shared an apartment. On July 19, 1987, Cook stole some money from Cruz-Ramos. When Cruz-Ramos began searching the apartment for the money, Cook and Matzke tied Cruz-Ramos to a chair and began beating him with their fists and a metal pipe. Cook also cut Cruz-Ramos with a knife, sodomized him, and burned his genitals with cigarettes. After several hours of this torture, Matzke and Cook crushed Cruz-Ramos' throat with the pipe. When Kevin Swaney, another co-worker, arrived at the apartment, Cook forced him upstairs and showed him Cruz-Ramos' body. Cook and Matzke then tied Swaney to a chair. Matzke went to sleep while Cook sodomized Swaney. When Cook was finished, he woke Matzke and the two men strangled Swaney to death with a bed sheet. Matzke pled guilty to second-degree murder and testified against Cook. PROCEEDINGS Presiding Judge: Steven F. Conn Prosecutor: Eric Larsen Start of Trial: June 27, 1988 Verdict: 8 July 7, 1988 Sentencing: August 8, 1988 Aggravating Circumstances Especially heinous/cruel/depraved Multiple homicides Pecuniary gain (Cruz-Ramos murder only) Mitigating Circumstances PUBLISHED OPINIONS State v. Cook, 170 Ariz. 40, 821 P.2d 731 (1991). |
| Community supervision parole: | N |
| Admission date: | Aug 23, 1988 |
| Booking location: | Maricopa County, AZ |
| Commit number: | A01 |
| Admit date: | Aug 23, 1988 |
| Consec concur: | Consecutive:A01 |
| Commit number: | A02 |
| Admit date: | Aug 23, 1988 |
