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New Mexico State Police have charged a Minnesota man with killing a Rio Rancho man inside a Las Cruces prison last year.
Corey Clinton Jeffery, 51, stands charged with first-degree murder, possession of a deadly weapon by a prisoner and tampering with evidence. NMSP believes Jeffery strangled and stabbed Richard Cresap, 21, at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility on Dec. 3, 2023.
According to a criminal complaint, police believe Jeffery killed Cresap because he was “mouthy and disrespectful.” The complaint said Jeffery entered Cresap’s cell, strangled him, then returned a short time later and stabbed him with a shank repeatedly.
Jeffery is already serving a life sentence after Minnesota police said he killed Paul Boever, 80, of Alexandria, Minnesota in 2005. Jeffery was handed a second life sentence when police in Kansas said he stabbed a prison guard in 2014.
New Mexico court records show Cresap was serving a 15-year sentence for second-degree murder. In that case, Rio Rancho police said Cresap killed a 15-year-old boy following an altercation between the two.
