(Cincinnati, OH) -- The lawyers for convicted serial killer Anthony Kirkland are withdrawing from the case. Yesterday, Perry Ancona and Norm Aubin left the case after claiming a state public defender undermined them in jail phone calls with Kirkland.
Rachel Troutman, a supervising attorney in the Office of the Ohio public Defender, apparently called Kirkland in October saying that his attorneys may not necessarily do a good job of explaining how Kirkland got where he is.
Ancona said Troutman also told Kirkland that the brain scans are for him and not his attorneys.
In May 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio granted a motion for a new sentencing hearing for Kirkland. This latest information was just uncovered this week and could delay Kirkland's re-sentencing until later next year.
2006 and 2009, Kirkland murdered two women and two girls in the Cincinnati area, following a 16-year prison term for the 1987 killing of his girlfriend. On May 20, 1987, Kirkland killed his girlfriend, Leola Douglas, and set her body on fire. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and served 16 years in prison. He was released from parole in 2004.