Elko District Judge Nancy Porter order Robert McFarland the male half of the Utah the New Years Bonnie and Clyde crime duo to undergo a psychiatric evaluation before entering a plea to seven felony counts.
Facing charges including kidnapping, car theft and robbery with the use of a deadly weapon, McFarland is on suicide watch in the Elko County Jail said his Attorney Gary Woodbury.
Wendover gym owner Rattana Keomanivong was critically wounded in the New Year’s Eve crime spree of Angela Hill and Robert McFarland that began with the double murder of an elderly Utah couple in Mt. Pleasant and ended four days later when the two desperadoes walked out of the high desert and surrender to police at the foot of the Pequops Mountains.
The owner of Wendover’s Animal House Gym, Keomanivong was hailed as a hero who by fighting back and thwarting an attempted car jacking played a key role in ending a murderous cross country crime spree by the modern day Bonnie and Clyde.
Hill was bound over for trial this month and will also be arraigned in Porter’s court room.
