Colorado Man Legally Changed Name to Bond Villain Le Chiffre Prior to Killing Dad, Police Say

A Colorado Springs man legally changed his title to match the James Bond villain from “On line casino Royale” earlier than beating his 83-300 and sixty five days-outmoded father to death with a baseball bat, police said Friday at some level of a court docket listening to.

Jean-Joseph Hazard Le Chiffre (born Patrick Joseph Sandoval) pleaded not guilty to first-diploma murder and assorted prices in the July 2020 killing of Gilbert Sandoval, in step with the Denver Gazette. Assume Chad Miller ordered Le Chiffre held with out bond forward of a deliberate trial.

Per authorities, the 55-300 and sixty five days-outmoded ancient attorney conspired along with his mother, Gabriella Sandoval, to murder his father (from whom she became estranged) after discovering out that Gilbert deliberate to reduce his son’s inheritance.

“She became uninterested in how Gilbert treated her, became share of it, and the assorted share became financial — that Mr. Le Chiffre had been slash out of the desire,” Detective Marcus Lehmkuhl testified, including that she lured her estranged husband to her dwelling and sent him into the basement where her son ambushed him with a Louisville slugger that became stumbled on at the scene.

Gabriella Sandoval before all the pieces educated police that she had killed her husband after he attacked her with a knife — however Lehmkuhl said she became so used that officers had to escort her at some level of the house. And prosecutors said she recanted her self-protection claims in a deposition last August.

That forged suspicion on Le Chiffre, whose chosen title fits the Bond unsuitable guy executed by Mads Mikkelsen in the 2006 film “On line casino Royale” as properly as the 1953 Ian Fleming peaceful that kicked off the Bond series.