Overview

• Monday’s court hearing featured an inmate’s testimony that Sparks felt demeaned by a hot dog Daniel Menard bought, which he described as a personal jab
• According to Detective Thomas Williams, Sparks confessed to bludgeoning the 79-year-old Daniel and 73-year-old Stephanie with a rake, a hoe and a hammer and drowning their dog, Cuddles, in a sink
• Investigators uncovered the couple’s bodies hidden in a homemade concrete bunker beneath Sparks’ Olive Dell Ranch Nudist Resort home
• Human remains recovered in September 2024 were forensically identified as the Menards and an autopsy ruled their deaths homicides from blunt-force trauma to the head
• Sparks has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of animal cruelty and remains in custody pending a trial expected later this year