Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner, shown during better times in this undated photograph. Submitted.
Dale Hausner, suspect in eight murders and numerous other shootings, turns 36 today. Born Feb. 4, 1973 in Omaha, Neb., Hausner will spend his birthday in a rather unusual place: in a downtown Phoenix courtroom, facing an onslaught of questions by prosecutors and defending himself against charges of murder, attempted murder, assault, arson and cruelty to animals.
Prosecutors get their first ever chance today to question the suspected serial killer. Police interrogated him in the hours after his arrest, and he denied any involvement in what had become known as the Serial Shooter killing spree. However, Maricopa County prosecutors have never had a crack at him. Yesterday, prosecutors could be seen taking furious notes as Hausner went through his second day of denials and alibis on the witness stand. Lead prosecutor Vince Imbordino will work to poke holes in Hausner’s elaborate story once the trial picks up again today at 1 p.m. — a later start to the day than ususual, not because it’s Hausner’s birthday, but because one of the jurors had a scheduling conflict.