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https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/us/missouri-murder-timothy-stephenson- cec/index.html

On the surface, Timothy Stephenson had an enviable life. He was married
to a doctor, and they lived in a $2 million home with their twin
daughters in a quiet suburb east of San Francisco.

But Stephenson harbored a secret: About two decades earlier, he had shot
and killed a man he met at a bar in Kansas City.

The crime remained unsolved until 2021, when Stephenson’s dark past
finally caught up with him. By then, his personal life was unraveling.
His husband had filed for divorce the year before and the couple were
locked in a legal battle over custody of their children.

Authorities arrested him on murder charges that December and extradited
him to Missouri. And this month, he pleaded guilty to second-degree
murder and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.

For Stephenson, it all came crashing down after police received new
information that helped them piece together what happened that night
back in 1998 in Kansas City.

That information came from Stephenson’s estranged husband.

He told his husband 10 years ago that he’d killed someone, court
documents say Stephenson’s sentencing came a decade after he told his
husband, Joseph Ginejko, about the killing he’d committed in Missouri. According to a probable cause statement obtained by CNN, Stephenson told
his husband in 2014 that he met the man, Randall Oliphant, at a gay bar
in January 1998 and they drove to Stephenson’s house in Kansas City,
where he shot him twice in the bathroom.

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Oliphant pleaded for his life after the first shot, Stephenson said. The probable cause statement did not mention a motive.

Oliphant’s body was found two months later in some woods in rural Benton County, Missouri, about 100 miles southeast of Kansas City. Missouri
State Police said Stephenson was familiar with the area because his
father and grandmother lived nearby and he’d been there many times.

In his confession to his husband, Stephenson told him he later remodeled
the bathroom to mask the crime scene and conceal evidence.

Investigators interviewed Stephenson in 1998 and he admitted to taking
an “unknown male” to his home in Kansas City. But he said he gave the
man a ride from his house afterward and dropped him off at a different
bar.

Stephenson’s phone records revealed roaming charges from a cellular
tower near where the victim’s body was found in rural Missouri,
investigators said.

In 1998, investigators also tracked down the person who’d bought
Stephenson’s Jeep Wrangler in May of that year – four months after the
killing. The new owner told them parts of the carpet were missing when
he bought it. Police said they found traces of blood in the Jeep’s rear
cargo area, but DNA evidence was inconclusive.

It’s not clear why police didn’t arrest Stephenson in 1998. The Missouri
State Highway Patrol declined to comment to CNN and referred questions
to the Benton County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which did not
respond to requests for additional details.

In 2021, investigators planned an undercover operation to get more
details Stephenson and Ginejko were married in 2008 and lived with their daughters in Danville, in San Francisco’s East Bay — a suburb that was
once named the safest in California.

Court records show Ginejko filed for divorce in January 2020 — six years
after his husband’s startling confession — in Contra Costa County, but
it’s unclear when the divorce was finalized. Ginejko told police he
tried to research the Missouri killing after his husband’s confession
but there was little information available online.

But at some point between early 2020 and April 2021, Ginejko spoke to
the police. Ginejko told them details about the killing that had never
been publicly revealed, the probable cause statement said — suggesting
that he only could have learned them from his husband.

In the probable cause statement, investigators said they then staged an undercover operation: an April 2021 meeting between Stephenson and
Ginejko that was secretly captured on audio and video.

During that conversation, which included the estranged couple talking
about their children, Ginejko brought up Stephenson’s 2014 confession. Stephenson’s demeanor changed and he “became paranoid,” the court
document said. Stephenson asked his husband if he was wearing a wire or recording the conversation, and even frisked him — also examining his
wallet, phone and coffee cup.

Ginejko asked Stephenson several times why he killed Oliphant, and his
answers were conflicting. Stephenson finally admitted that he had indeed confessed years ago to the killing, but claimed he’d told his husband
that to scare him into staying with him, the court document said.

Stephenson’s 16-year sentence includes credit for time served.



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