Boone County Commissioners consider extending contract for special prosecutor to work on murder cases

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The Boone County Commission will consider extending the county's special assistant prosecutor contract for help on four murder cases.

The contract would require Sue Boresi's assistance in the prosecution of Anthony Marine, who is accused of murder in May 2025; James Caldwell, who is accused of killing one person and injuring two other people at the Greens Apartment complex in January; Misael Covarrubias, who is accused of shooting and killing a Stephens College student and injuring two others in September 2025; and a group of 18-year-olds and the juvenile who are charged with the murder of Michael Burke during a Facebook Marketplace exchange in January.

If commissioners approve the contract, Boresi will receive $4,000 for each case, totaling $16,000. The contract also allots $1,500 for the first day of each trial, if the cases go to trial, and then $1,000 for subsequent trial days. The county won't pay Boresi more than $49,000, according to the contract.

This is the third amendment to Boresi's original contract, which went into effect in July. The first contract allowed Boresi to continue working on three cases she was assigned before retiring in June.

The first amendment was approved in October, which allowed Boresi to assist the county prosecutor, Roger Johnson, with docket calls at an hourly rate of $41, not to exceed a total of $2,050.

The second amendment was approved about a month later, in November, and authorized Boresi to provide co-counsel during the Jan. 12 trial for two men who accepted plea deals in a murder case for the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in 2022.

That amendment would have given Boresi a total of $4,000 for both cases. If it had gone to trial, Boresi would have received $750 for the first day and $500 for any following days.

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