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Kimberly Maurer Murders Stepson

Kimberly Maurer is a woman from Pennsylvania who was convicted in the murder of her 12 year old stepson. According to court documents Kimberly Maurer and her husband Scott Schollenberger Jr, who is the father of Maxwell Schollenberger, would starve and beat the twelve year old boy until his body could not deal with the abuse any longer and died. Kimberly Maurer who was charged with several felony counts including murder and child endangerment would be convicted after the jury returned a verdict in a hour. Kimberly Maurer will be sentenced to life in June 2022 as the murder charge carries a mandatory life sentence.

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It took a jury less than one hour Tuesday to find Kimberly Maurer guilty of homicide for the role she played in the death of 12-year-old Max Schollenberger.

Maurer was found guilty on multiple counts of criminal homicide, endangering the welfare of children, involuntary manslaughter and criminal conspiracy to endanger the welfare of children.

In September 2020 police filed charges against Maurer and Max’s father, Scott Schollenberger Jr. The couple, engaged at the time, lived with Max and his siblings in the first block of South White Oak Street in Annville Township.

Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf said she was proud of this verdict, saying that this trial showed the juror’s “what pure evil personified looks like.”

“It shows how a child could be tortured, starved and punished in every way for existing,” she said. “And those twelve people stood up, looked (Maurer) in the face today and did right by that child.

On May 26, 2020, Annville Township Police and members of the Lebanon County Detective Bureau found Max’s 12-year-old body in his second-floor room.

The cause of death was prolonged starvation, malnutrition and blunt force trauma, according to officials. Max was found with a broken eye socket, and multiple signs of blunt force trauma.

The room was caked with feces and urine, according to witnesses. There was a plate of french fries and chicken tenders, along with a cup containing a little water. The boy was naked on the bed, in a room with no toys or furniture.

“Both the bed and the victim’s body were wholly covered in fecal matter,” court documents state. “The door and its frame contained three metal hooks … to lock the child in his bedroom.”

Max weighed 47.5 pounds and measured 50 inches tall at the time of death, significantly under what a child that age should be, according to officials.

Graf’s co-council, Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Edward McCann, called this the worst child abuse case he’s been involved with in his 32 years as a prosecutor.

“Her kid was essentially tortured, jailed (and) basically his existence was erased while he was still alive,” he said. “I’ve never seen any crime scene that looked like this crime scene.”

Witnesses over three days testified that Maurer failed to enroll the 12-year-old in school for years, give him proper medical care, or give him proper treatment for possible physical and psychological problems he might have developed over the years.

“(Maurer) is one of the most manipulative defendants I’ve ever seen, in that every person she interacts with has to serve a purpose or that person has to get attacked,” Graf said.

The father, Scott Schollenberger, pleaded guilty in February to charges that included criminal homicide, endangering the welfare of children, and criminal conspiracy to endanger the welfare of children

He was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.

Maurer’s attorneys argued that Scott Schollenberger was the orchestrator of his 12-year-old son Max’s abuse and death. Maurer’s attorney, Andrew Race, said she should be convicted guilty of endangering the welfare of a child, but not more serious charges because Scott Schollenberger wouldn’t allow anyone else to make decisions for his son to get him the help he needed.

“The only thing Kim is guilty of is letting Scott control her, not doing more and not calling the police,” he said in his closing arguments.

Most of the prosecution’s case Thursday focused on Maurer’s Facebook posts, along with text messages and video recovered from her cell phone. Selected portions of these messages by Graf’s team showed Maurer describing an inability to control Max’s behavior, along with instances of Max urinating and defecating in the family’s home.

Officials wanted to ensure Maurer would be convicted of homicide, Graf said, but did not want to exploit Max in his most vulnerable moments.

“He had a face, he had a name (and) he had an existence that this defendant took away,” Graf said.

Maurer’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 1.

The Department of Human Services operates a 24/7 hotline to report suspected child abuse or concerns about the welfare of a child. ChildLine can be reached at 800-932-0313.

https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/local/2022/03/22/kimberly-maurer-found-guilty-in-death-of-max-schollenberger/65346155007/

Troy Bierdz Murders Mother With A Bat

Troy Bierdz is known as the brother of actor Thom Bierdz but unfortunately Troy is also known as the man from Wisconsin who beat his mother to death with a baseball bat. According to court documents when Troy Bierdz was nineteen years old he would attack his mother with a baseball bat and proceeded to beat her to death. Troy Bierdz who was diagnosed with schizophrenia would leave the home following the murder however would be arrested soon after. Troy Bierdz would be convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for fifty years.

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Institution: Columbia Correctional Institution

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In 1986, Thom Bierdz catapulted into stardom with his role as Philip Chancellor III in the popular daytime drama The Young and the Restless. The Wisconsin native quickly became a sex symbol, a regular on soap magazines, and won fans around the country and beyond.

Bierdz was in the height of his career when his 19-year-old brother, Troy Bierdz, murdered their mother, Phyllis, with a baseball bat in their hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Now, more than two decades after the horrific tragedy, Bierdz shares his harsh journey to forgiving his brother in his stunning memoir, Forgiving Troy

Bierdz’s debut book is brutally honest, emotionally uncensored, and skillfully brings readers into the aftermath of the murder, surviving Hollywood as a gay man, and the perceptions of mental health before the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“Curiously,” said Bierdz, “Troy’s disputed onset of paranoid schizophrenia in his teens was debated by many doctors. My mom tried to get him help by taking Troy to 40 doctors, but most felt he was only faking symptoms of schizophrenia, while only a few believed he actually was schizophrenic. There is no denying he did become schizophrenic and is today.”

While many blame Phyllis’ death on the Wisconsin court system, as it ignored her multiple pleas for help each time her son threatened to kill her, Bierdz takes a completely different stance. He said, “I do not know how a system can stop killing, since mental ‘illness’ is so variable. Millions of people threaten to kill others – so how can outsiders really know who will?”

“If you asked me on a spiritual level,” continued Bierdz, “do I feel Troy was fated to kill mom, I would say no, that none of us are fated to do anything.”

Still, Bierdz does feel that if the ADA had been around when his mom was seeking mental health services for her schizophrenic son, things may have turned out differently. And while Bierdz does feel medication can help, he wants to ensure that people know pills are only one option for some conditions.

“I cannot dispute that the anti-psychotic meds Troy now takes in prison miraculously take away most of his hallucinations and other symptoms. As a man who is over 50, and not on any pills, I cannot deny Ambien did, in fact, help my insomnia previously, and that medicines can help and cure people. But, I feel that is primarily because the patient’s mindset believes in a cure pill. We all know placebos have a 30 percent cure rate. My intent is to empower the patient, for them to see they deserve perfect health, and they can attain that in numerous ways, pills being only one option,” he said.

Above everything, Bierdz wants people to know that schizophrenics are not necessarily dangerous people and that, statistically, they are less dangerous than people without any mental illness. He does, though, think that people with any type of mental or physical condition would benefit from reducing the stress in their lives and eating whole foods. (He is an especially big supporter of veganism.)

In 2015, Warren Hohmann, from KTLA News in Hollywood, flew to Wisconsin with Bierdz to visit Troy, and captured much of their story through interviews. The clips were later woven into a documentary film also called Forgiving Troy, which shows how Bierdz and his baby brother rebuilt their relationship.

“Troy and I were experiencing similar anxiety challenges – him in prison, me in the prison of Hollywood, etc.,” said Bierdz about the film.

Bierdz still acts occasionally, but now focuses mainly on painting. In fact, he has become Hollywood’s favorite realist painter and is in high demand.

“While I do realism for clients, my best stuff is when I spill my brain and do expressionism,” said Bierdz.

E-book copies of Forgiving Troy may be purchased through all online retailers and paperback copies can be obtained via http://www.thombierdz.com. The documentary may be streamed for free on YouTube.

To learn more about and follow Bierdz, you can find him on Facebook at Thom Bierdz and Thom Bierdz II and on Twitter @ThomBierdz.

Eric Wrinkles Indiana Execution

Eric Wrinkles was executed by the State of Indiana for a triple murder. According to court documents Eric Wrinkles was hospitalized for mental illness a couple of weeks before the triple murder by his mother. However the stay would be short as doctors at the mental health facility deemed him not to be a risk to himself or others. Once released Eric Wrinkles would go to the home of his estranged wife and would murder her Debra Jean Wrinkles, his brother-in-law Tony Fulkerson, and Fulkerson’s wife, Natalie Fulkerson. Eric Wrinkles would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Eric Wrinkles would be executed by lethal injection on December 11, 2009

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Ten years ago, a 49-year-old Evansville man who murdered his estranged wife and two for her relatives in front of young children was put to death.

Since then, no other inmate has been executed by the state of Indiana.

That inmate was Matthew Eric Wrinkles, put to death with a lethal injection administered in Michigan City the morning of Dec. 11, 2009.

Wrinkles spent years fighting his sentence, and stayed in the news regularly between the 1994 murders and his execution in 2009. He claimed he was abused by the wife he killed, he tried to make peace with her family members on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and, eventually, he decided to die by refusing to seek clemency from then-Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Here’s what you need to know about the last death row inmate executed in Indiana.

Authorities said Eric Wrinkles was on methamphetamine when he cut the phone lines, broke into his brother-in-law’s Evansville home and killed his wife, Debra Jean Wrinkles, 31; her brother, Mark “Tony” Fulkerson, 28; and Fulkerson’s wife, Natalie “Chris” Fulkerson, 26.

The couple was in the middle of a divorce and custody battle over their two children. Debra Wrinkles and the kids had left home to stay with the Fulkersons as the situation between the couple worsened

Court documents said Wrinkles was wearing camouflage and face paint and when he kicked open the door of the home around 2 a.m. on July 21, 1994, armed with a gun and a knife.

Eric Wrinkles shot Mark Fulkerson in front of Fulkerson’s 3-year-old son, then shot Debra Wrinkles as their daughter pleaded for her mother’s life, police said. Finally, he shot Natalie Fulkerson in the face and fled the scene in a pickup truck

Wrinkles was later arrested at his cousin’s home, where a .357-caliber Magnum used in the killings was recovered.

The murders happened just days after Wrinkles’ mother tried to have him committed due to his erratic behavior. She was told her son didn’t meet the criteria.

He had been briefly hospitalized about two weeks before the murders but was released after a psychiatrist determined he was not “gravely disabled,” according to records from a 1999 court hearing.

Eric Wrinkles has said the killings were motivated by his methamphetamine addiction and fear that he would no longer see his children.

In the lead-up to his trial, Wrinkles claimed his wife had become abusive. He said he was afraid she planned to shoot or stab him. But police and Debra Wrinkles’ family said it was who Wrinkles had a history of abusing his wife.

“I feel like Caesar on the steps of the Senate. I’m made out to be this bad guy because of women’s rights and all this stuff,” Wrinkles told the Evansville Courier from the Vanderburgh County Jail. “When it comes down to it, I’ll give my own version of what exactly transpired. There were a whole lot of things leading up to this situation.”

Eric Wrinkles was convicted of the murders in May 1995 after a week-long jury trial. He was sentenced to death on June 14, 1995.

A direct appeal led to his conviction being unanimously affirmed in December 1997.

In August 1999, Wrinkles sought a new trial, claiming his original attorneys were too preoccupied with other cases to adequately represent him.

Wrinkles’ new defense team also claimed that trial attorneys failed to discuss Wrinkles’ methamphetamine addiction or research his troubled childhood for the penalty stage of his trial.

In November 2009, after years of rejected efforts to save his life, Wrinkles’ lawyers told reporters that he had made the decision to die and refused to fill out paperwork formally requesting clemency from Gov. Mitch Daniels.

Parole board officials had intended to visit him at the Indiana State Prison to make sure he understood the rights he was surrendering, but that visit was called off after Wrinkles’ attorneys notified the Parole Board that he was waiving his right to request clemency.

By that point, Eric Wrinkles had exhausted his appeals in state and federal courts

A week after the Indiana Supreme Court declined Wrinkles’ final review motion, he appeared as a guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” via remote feed from prison. During the talk show segment, he was confronted by members of his victims’ families.

The Fulkersons’ children; Debra and Tony’s mother, Mae McIntire; and Natalie’s mother, Mary Winnecke, were all on the show.

Wrinkles said he never intended to kill anyone and was on the way to a friend’s house out of town. He said he was wearing camouflage because he planned to go hunting and fishing, and only stopped by to the house to see his children.

“I didn’t think I would ever see them again,” he said. “It wasn’t to kill anybody.”

When asked if he deserves the death penalty, Wrinkles said he didn’t think his opinion mattered and that the time spent in prison could never make up for what he did.

“You can’t put a price on human life,” he said.

Winnecke said she didn’t raise her daughter’s children to hate Wrinkles. She said she didn’t believe the story Wrinkles told, but she still forgives him.

“I pray for you that you ask God for forgiveness, because that’s where it’s all at,” Winnecke said. “And I ask everybody to write the governor to stop the death penalty because we’re not here to judge. You deserve to be in jail, but we don’t want you to die.”

McIntire raised Wrinkles’ children after the murders. She said Wrinkles was abusive from the moment he married her daughter, and that she hated him for what he did.

“He has been tried by 12 jurors. He was sentenced to death row and that’s where he should go. He should die,” she said. “He killed three beautiful people and left four children orphaned.”

On the day of his execution, Wrinkles continued to speak about the change he had undergone, saying in his final statement that he was “not proud of the man I was, but I am no longer that man.”

He died from lethal injection at 12:39 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2009, at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. His final meal was prime rib, a loaded baked potato, pork chops, steak fries, and two salads with ranch dressing and rolls

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2019/12/11/matthew-eric-wrinkles-last-inmate-executed-indiana/2617253001/

Richard Paul White Serial Killer Bodies In The Backyard

Richard Paul White is a serial killer from Colorado who was responsible for at least three murders. According to court documents Richard Paul White would sexually assault and murder two women Annaletia Maria Gonzales, 27, and Victoria Lyn Turpin, 32, whose bodies would be buried in his backyard. Richard Paul White was also convicted of the murder of Jason Reichardt, 27, who was fatally shot although Richard Paul White would later say it was an accident. Richard would also be convicted of the sexual assaults and torture of three women who were able to survive. Richard Paul White is serving three life sentences plus 144 years in prison.

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Name:WHITE, RICHARD P
Age:49
Ethnicity:WHITE
Gender:MALE
Hair Color:RED
Eye Color:BLUE
Height:6′ 01″Weight:309

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Discharge Date:12/31/9998
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It’s too soon for the little boy to talk about losing his mom, so he pounds a basketball instead.

His younger sister is the one with all the questions about why a serial killer named Richard Paul White took the life of her mother, 25-year-old Torrey Marie Foster.

“She says her mom wasn’t a bad person, so why did he do that to her?” recalled Della Cardoza, 61, Foster’s grandmother, who is caring for the children. “I don’t have an answer.”

Denver police confirmed Tuesday what Cardoza said the family has known since Saturday: A skeleton found last year near Mesita in southern Colorado was that of Foster, an outgoing woman who was studying cosmetology with hopes of a new life

Richard Paul White helped authorities find Foster’s body as part of an agreement in which he pleaded guilty to the murders of two women found buried in the backyard of his former Denver home.

Richard Paul White told investigators how he strangled a woman in 2002 after picking her up at a bus stop near Colfax Avenue in Denver. He helped them locate the remains near his father’s home in Mesita near the New Mexico border in September 2004.

But the victim’s identity was a mystery until the Denver District Attorney’s Office released a sketch that was recognized by Denver homicide Detective Jon Priest, who remembered Foster as a witness in one of his cases.

The District Attorney’s Office then used DNA from Foster’s 9-year-old daughter to confirm the woman’s identity, spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said.

After being told what happened to their mother, Foster’s daughter and her 11- year-old son did not want to start school in Denver this week, Cardoza said. She urged them to go in order to have some sense of normalcy.

“He’s pretty quiet,” she said of the boy. “He plays basketball. I figure he’s using it as a weapon, just playing and playing and playing.”

The little girl, she said, is inconsolable.

“She wants her mommy. She doesn’t want to stay with me forever,” she said.

Cardoza worries for both children, whom Foster entrusted to her care while in cosmetology school.

“She used to live with me, most of the time,” Cardoza said of her granddaughter. “She was married, and then he left. So she tried to get it together again.”

After his capture in September 2003, Richard Paul White told officers how in January 2002 he picked up a tall, “dark-skinned” woman who was blind in her right eye and drove her to his house at 2885 Albion St., where he strangled her. White said he knew he was fated to kill her because he had a tattoo of a similar woman.

Richard Paul White, now 32, described the woman in detail. He said the tall, thin woman had just gotten her dark, crimped hair done; had perfect teeth; had a bad scar on her forearm; and had children.

In November 2003, White was sentenced to life in prison for strangling Annaletia Maria Gon zales, 27, and Victoria Lyn Tur pin, 32, whose bodies were found in his former backyard.

Because of the deal with prosecutors, which included his help in locating Foster’s remains, Richard Paul White will not be charged with her death, Kimbrough said.

He received an additional 144 years for raping and torturing three of his surviving victims.

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Jayana Tanae Webb Charged With 3 Murders

Jayana Tanae Webb is a twenty one year old woman from Pennsylvania who was just charged with three counts of murder for a fatal DUI accident that left 2 Pennsylvania State Troopers and a civilian dead. According to police reports Jayana Tanae Webb was stopped by Pennsylvania State Troopers on suspicion of DUI however they would let her go as they had a report of a man wandering around the Interstate. Soon after Jayana Tanae Webb would strike the 2 Pennsylvania State Troopers as well as the man killing all three. Jayana Tanae Webb has been charged with the following:

Murder of the third degree, three counts
Homicide by vehicle while DUI, three counts
Homicide by vehicle, three counts
Manslaughter of a law enforcement officer in the second degree, two counts
Involuntary manslaughter, three counts
Recklessly endangering another person, three counts
Driving under the influence
Summary traffic violations, which include failing to drive at a safe speed, careless driving, and reckless driving

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Authorities have announced charges against a woman they say was driving under the influence when she struck and killed three people, including two Pennsylvania state police troopers, Monday morning.

Jayana Tanae Webb, 21, has been charged with third-degree murder, homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, DUI, and related charges in connection with the crash that occurred shortly before 1 a.m. in the southbound lanes of I-95.

Investigators say Webb was behind the wheel of an SUV when she struck Trooper Martin Mack, Trooper Branden Sisca, and 28-year-old Reyes Rivera Oliveras on the left side of the highway.

Webb was walked out of the Pennsylvania State Police Troop K barracks in Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon wearing handcuffs that belonged to the fallen troopers

Troopers Mack and Sisca had responded to a call for a person walking on the left side of the southbound lanes and had made contact with the man on the roadway. The troopers were taking the man into custody and walking him back to their state police SUV.

As all three men were walking back to the police vehicle, authorities say Webb was traveling at a high rate of speed in the left lane and struck all three men, the patrol vehicle, and the barrier between the north and southbound lanes. The impact of the crash knocked both troopers into the northbound lanes and ripped both driver’s side doors off of their SUV.

Webb’s vehicle later came to a stop on the right shoulder of the southbound lanes and she remained at the scene prior to being taken into custody.

Police dispatch called for backup after the officers stopped responding. Backup arrived as bystanders were attempting to perform life-saving measures on the troopers. Both Trooper Mack and Trooper Sisca were later pronounced dead at the scene.

A law enforcement source tells FOX 29’s Steve Keeley that state police had conducted a traffic stop involving the striking vehicle shortly before the crash. They say that stop was cut short because troopers were responding to reports of pedestrian walking on I-95.

Authorities had announced Monday morning that they were conducting a ‘DUI-related’ investigation. Law enforcement sources told FOX 29 that a 21-year-old driver had a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit.

Officials say Trooper Mack, 33, joined the force in 2014 while Sisca, 29, only recently graduated from the academy and had enlisted in February of 2021. Sisca was also a Fire Chief of Trappe Fire Company in Montgomery County.

Webb, of Eagleville, faces a total of 18 charges in connection with the crash

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/driver-charged-in-crash-that-killed-2-pennsylvania-state-troopers-civilian