Top 13 Whitman County stories & more of 2013

Lazcano

A Spokane county jury’s guilty verdict Dec. 18 following the third murder trial of Daniel Lazcano ended a series of four murder trials. In a county where murder trials don’t happen every year, the four-trial run for the Lazano brothers was unprecedented.

The Lazcanos were arrested after the body of their victim, Marcus Schur, was found in the outlet creek of Bonnie Lake in March of 2012. The case advanced when the murder weapon, an AK-47 rifle, was found in the Spokane River under T.J. Meenach Bridge that September.

The third trial for Daniel Lazcano was moved to Spokane County after t...