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Tabitha Messina Teen Killer Axe Murderer

Tabitha Messina was convicted of the axe murders of her father and his girlfriend in Ohio. According to court documents Tabitha Messina and Carlos Christopher would break into her fathers home where they would attack him and his girlfriend striking them repeatedly with an axe while the couple slept. This teen killer would be convicted of both murders and a count of robbery. Tabitha Messina would be sentenced to sixty years to life. Carlos Christopher would receive two life sentences without parole.

Tabitha Messina 2023 Information

Number W073504

DOB 10/26/1988

Gender Female

Race White

Admission Date 10/31/2008

Institution Dayton Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

Stated Prison Term 5 years

Expiration Stated Term 07/28/2067

Indefinite Sentence Min 55 years

Indefinite Sentence Max Life Sentence

Expiration of Max Sentence Life Sentence

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Tabitha Messina will be 80 years old before she’s eligible for parole. Messina received 60 years to life in prison Friday for masterminding the murder of her father, Richard Messina, 50, and his girlfriend, 43-year-old Sandra Cover. Tabitha Messina, 20, and her friend Carlos Christopher broke into the elder Messina’s house in South Euclid while he and Cover slept July 29, 2007.

Prosecutors said Messina and Christopher attacked the couple with an ax and a crowbar. Then, they stole a Corvette and GMC Jimmy from them. Messina insisted she did not plan or want to kill her father or the woman who served as her surrogate stepmother for 10 years. “Never once would I think of taking the life of the man who raised me,” she said at her sentencing.

However, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Timothy E. McMonagle said the evidence showed otherwise. “She makes things up as she goes along and she believes what she says,” McMonagle said. Even when Tabitha Messina was young, she used to lie after getting in fights, clinical psychologist Dr. Sandra McPherson said. Messina used to attack other children, blame someone else and then get attention by trying to fix the problem, McPherson said in a study that was read by McMonagle.

Several members from Messina and Cover’s family filled McMonagle’s courtroom. Those who spoke made it very clear that they thought life in prison was an insufficient punishment. Linda Moore, Cover’s sister, told Messina she deserved to die for the murder and mutilation of the couple. Cover’s mother, Joann Bartell, said life in prison was “more mercy than she showed Sandy and her father.” Bartell showed the judge a picture of Sandy Cover and said, “There are not adequate words in the English language to describe the pain, anguish and despair I feel.”

Betty Montanez, Richard Messina’s sister and Tabitha’s aunt, echoed the sentiment. “When you forgot to respect him, and you forgot he was your father, we forgot you were our niece,” she said. “At best, you deserve to die in prison, maybe of old age.” The one person in her family who would have forgiven her, Montanez said, was her father.

Tabitha and Richard Messina had an often contentious relationship. “I always used to push my dad to a certain limit to see how much he would take from me,” Tabitha Messina said. Between January 2005 and the murder, South Euclid police were called to Messina’s home 68 times for reasons including loud music, barking dogs, trespassing and juvenile disturbances. Tabitha Messina has alleged that her father abused her, but there is no evidence to corroborate it, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Patrick J. Thomas said. Christopher has been convicted of murder and given two life sentences without possibility of parole.

https://www.news-herald.com/news/life-in-prison-in-dad-s-murder/article_68a2f36a-547e-5790-8e5f-a22f697c8bae.html

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The woman accused of murdering her father and live-in girlfriend has been indicted.

Tabitha Messina and Carlos Christopher were each indicted on 12 counts: four counts of Aggravated Murder, with Mass Murder and Felony Murder specifications; four counts of Aggravated Robbery; and four counts of Aggravated Burglary charges.

Police say Messina and Christopher bludgeoned Richard Messina and Sandra Cover with blunt objects inside Richard Messina’s home on July 29th.

The couple then fled the scene – and were later arrested in North Carolina.

Prosecutor Bill Mason said, “This horrific crime shows all the signs of a deliberate, purposeful killing. They broke into the house in the middle of the night and butchered these two victims with an axe in their bedroom. Now they face the death penalty.”

https://www.cleveland19.com/story/6924144/daughter-friend-face-death-penalty-in-s-euclid-double-murder/

Carlos Christopher 2021 Information

Number A550666

DOB 12/31/1987

Gender Male

Race White

Admission Date 06/05/2008

Institution Trumbull Correctional Institution

Status INCARCERATED

Net Sentence 888.88- LIFE

Expected Release Date 01/01/8888

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Tabitha Messina is currently incarcerated at the Dayton Correctional Facility

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Tabitha Messina is first eligible for parole in 2067 her max is life

Jennifer Mee Teen Killer – Hiccup Girl Turns Murderer

Jennifer Mee was known as the Hiccup Girl now she is known as a murderer. Jennifer Mee first came to attention for a case of hiccups that would not go away that would see her appear on national television shows. Eventually the hiccups would go away and Jennifer Mee would fade to the background. Then she was arrested for murder in Florida. According to court documents Jennifer Mee would lure the victim to an abandoned home where he was shot and killed by her two accomplices. This teen killer would be convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole

Jennifer Mee 2023 Information

DC Number:	156276
Name:	MEE, JENNIFER
Race:	WHITE
Sex:	FEMALE
Birth Date:	07/28/1991
Initial Receipt Date:	10/02/2013
Current Facility:	LOWELL ANNEX
Current Custody:	CLOSE
Current Release Date:	SENTENCED TO LIFE

Current Custody:CLOSE

Current Release Date:SENTENCED TO LIFE

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At the age of just 15, Jennifer Mee gained worldwide fame in 2007 when she developed an uncontrollable case of the hiccups.

The teenager, from St Petersburg, Florida, appeared on television morning shows across the United States in a bid to find a cure for her mysterious affliction.

Mee was hiccupping up to 50 times a minute, stopped going to school and could only eat soft foods. She had to be medicated to sleep.

Five weeks later they stopped – and so did the attention.

But in 2010 Mee, then 19, was back in the headlines – this time charged with first-degree murder of a 22-year-old man she met online and lured to a vacant home where two of her friends robbed and shot him.

Shannon Griffin, who came to the abandoned home under the illusion Mee wanted to buy some marijuana, was shot four times and robbed of less than $50. The 22-year-old has been working at a supermarket and was on holiday the week he was killed.

Under Florida law, because Mee set him up, she is as culpable as the person who pulled the trigger.

Prosecutors used police interviews and a taped phone call between Mee and her mother Rachel Robidoux as evidence she had arranged the crime.

During the call, she told her mother she not did pull the trigger of the gun that killed Griffin, but that she was charged with murder. “Because I set everything up,” she explained in the call that was played to the jury. “It all went wrong, Mom. It just went downhill.”

Her lawyers said she suffered from schizophrenia and Tourette’s Syndrome, and a court-appointed psychiatrist said Mee’s intelligence was “low normal.”

Attorney John Trevena revealed she was on a medication called thorazine – usually used to treat psychotic disorders – to control the hiccupping, but that even then she was still susceptible to bouts.

In 2013, Mee wept as she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Her co-defendants LaRon Raiford and Lamont Newton, who was her boyfriend at the time of the crime, were also convicted of first-degree murder.

Mee met with Piers Morgan in the third episode of Killer Women at her prison in Ocala, Florida.

Though Morgan wrestles with whether Mee should be kept in prison for the rest of her life even though she did not pull the trigger that killed Griffin and nor was she at the scene, he asks her to take responsibility for her part in his death.

The GMTV host also meets with Mee’s mother and defence lawyer, who both believe her earlier fame as the Hiccup Girl unfairly influenced the court and that her harsh punishment is the result.

Robidoux described her daughter’s earlier condition as “her case of the hiccups wasn’t a case of the hiccups, it was a curse of the hiccups.”

She added: “All of a sudden, people knew her name and she would talk to them on different chat sites. She’s very naive, and I was afraid she was getting herself into something that she didn’t really know what she was doing.

“She’s a lovable sweet little girl who would not hurt a fly. Where things went wrong I don’t know.”

At the time of her arrest, Mee’s MySpace page described herself as a “female version of a hustla”.

“My name is jennifer, im almost 19 but dont let the age fool you, the struggles ive been through has made me grown up so much. Im always havin fun chillin,” she wrote.

On her Facebook page, she alluded to drinking and drugs – and visiting a strip club. On her MySpace page, she posted photos of her tongue piercing, of her giving the camera the finger and her boyfriend’s jail booking photo.

She did not mention the hiccups.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/how-notorious-hiccup-girl-jennifer-mee-ended-up-jailed-for-a-murder-she-didnt-commit_uk_595cc6f5e4b02734df34e16d?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMqPMwStIRuo2p8cR9PqGXAvaj8KRq1WT1a2Zxi7w4p-hVRD-mnUFMEHjYAzfEW325-EbxvPBNvStLvfU2hvY6uUrDnVaigzM5Aqd41rU_LSFaUEg8qWQ_pmJ24RGwmFTnDdJKEty6qt7MlYkaVmr_T5QILiqmQiTHyuQSMjvO0I

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Prosecutors played a jailhouse call in the murder trial of Jennifer Mee, known as the “Hiccup Girl,” where she is heard telling her mother that she “didn’t kill nobody” but she “set everything up.”

Jennifer Mee, 22, who gained national fame when she was 15 years old because her hiccups lasted for five straight weeks, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2010 death of Shannon Griffin.

On Thursday, prosecutors played a jailhouse recording for the jury where Mee’s mother asks her why she has been arrested and charged.

“I didn’t kill nobody,” Mee said. “…I set everything up. It all went wrong, Mom. It [expletive] just went downhill after everything happened, Mom.”

Prosecutors allege that in 2010, Jennifer Mee met Griffin and lured him to a home in home in St. Petersburg, Fla., to be robbed. Griffin struggled with two accomplices who then shot him four times in the chest, according to prosecutors.

At issue is whether Mee was a bystander or if she planned the robbery that ended in Griffin’s death.

Police had previously said they did not believe Jennifer Mee pulled the trigger. However, under Florida law her involvement in a robbery that led to a homicide makes her subject to a first-degree murder charge.

Although Mee pleaded not guilty, prosecutors previously turned down her lawyer’s plea deal of a 15-year prison sentence.

On Wednesday, Mee’s attorney told the court her client was a schizophrenic. The judge then ordered Mee to undergo psychological evaluation. It was later determined Jennifer Mee is competent to stand trial.

Experts also testified that Mee’s DNA was found on the victim’s shirt. Though, the defense argued it could have been transferred to the shirt by another person, and a crime lab DNA expert agreed.

One alleged accomplice, LaRon Raiford, was convicted and sentenced in August to life in prison, while another co-defendant, Lamont Newton, has not yet gone to trial.

Jennifer Mee made national headlines in 2007 when she hiccupped virtually non-stop for more than a month, up to 50 times a minute. The hiccups ultimately stopped, her family has said, because she was treated with drugs used to treat Tourette syndrome.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/jurors-hear-hiccup-girl-jennifer-mees-jailhouse-confession/story?id=20314784

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Bethany McKee Teen Killer Murders 2 In Illinois

Bethany McKee was eighteen years old when she participated in a robbery that ended with two murders. According to court documents Bethany McKee, who was pregnant at the time, and three others – Joshua Miner, Adam Landerman and Alissa Massaro planned the robbery of the two men. In the end the two men were strangled to death.

This teen killer did not participate in the actual double murder however her participation would end with a life without parole sentence. According to prosecutors Brittany McKee led the two men to their murders

Bethany McKee 2023 Information

Parent Institution:	LOGAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Offender Status:	IN CUSTODY
Location:	LOGAN

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A Shorewood woman convicted in the 2013 grisly killings of two Joliet men has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to review her case and overturn her life sentence.

Bethany McKee, 23, was sentenced to life in prison three years ago after being found guilty of murder for the strangulation deaths of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover. The two men were found dead inside a residence on Hickory Street.

At her trial, Will County prosecutors said McKee and three others — Joshua Miner, Adam Landerman and Alissa Massaro — plotted to rob and kill Rankins and Glover. McKee, who knew Rankins, told her friends he always carried cash with him and agreed to help lure him and Glover to the apartment to rob the two men, prosecutors said.

Though she did not participate in the strangulation of the two men, state law requires a mandatory life sentence when found guilty of two murders. McKee was found guilty under the theory of accountability, where prosecutors argued she knew — or should have known — that the two men could be killed as part of the robbery. In developing the plan to rob the two men, Miner said he and Landerman could kill them and the four developed a signal for the two women to leave when the robbery would happen, prosecutors argued at trial.

Both Miner, 29, and Landerman, 24, are serving life sentences for the murders. They also are appealing their convictions.

Massaro, 23, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of robbery and concealing a homicide in exchange for her testimony. She received a 10-year sentence and is eligible for parole in 2018 according to the Illinois Department of Corrections website.

An appellate court upheld McKee’s sentence in June. In July, her attorneys filed a request for the Illinois Supreme Court to review the case.

The request argues the justices should review the case because of conflicting rulings from other districts involving similar cases. McKee’s attorney, Bryon Kohut, also argues McKee was just 18 years old at the time of the killings, had no criminal background and suffered from “considerable mental health issues” and “horrific abuses” as a teenager.

Kohut points to two other Illinois cases that involved murders and convictions based on the accountability theory. In those cases, the mandatory life sentence was eventually ruled unconstitutional based on the defendants’ young ages, lack of criminal history and support of family, according to court documents filed last month.

Kohut said the earliest the state’s high court could review the case is September.

In an appellate court ruling upholding Will County Judge Gerald Kinney’s decision to impose a life sentence, appellate court justices in their written ruling noted McKee “actively participated” in planning the crime and was an “instigator.” They noted she lured the two men to the apartment, made the suggestion to rob Rankins, used money that was stolen from the two men to buy gas and stole various items, including baby boots, from Glover’s car after he died, according to court documents.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-joliet-hickory-street-murders-appeal-st-0802-20170801-story.html

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Bethany McKee, 20, will spend her natural life in prison after being sentenced on Tuesday for her role in the 2013 murders of Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins.

Glover and Rankins, both 22, were strangled to death. Their bodies were found with plastic bags over their heads inside a home on Hickory Street in Joliet, Ill.

“She is the reason he was there,” said Jamille Kent, Rankins’ mother. “It would have never happened if she didn’t bring him there.”

McKee was found guilty in the murders by a judge in August. On Monday, her defense attorney’s motion for a new trial was denied.

Joshua Miner, 26, the mastermind behind the murders, was found guilty last month. His sentencing is set for later this month.

Adam Landerman, 21, is also charged in the murders. He is awaiting trial.

A fourth suspect, Alissa Massaro, pleaded guilty to robbery and concealment of a homicidal death for which she received a 10-year prison sentence.

Defense attorneys argued that McKee did not physically harm the men, that she is mentally ill, had been abducted into a sex trafficking ring at 14 and had a history of substance drug abuse.

McKee apologized to the families in court. Crying, and at times hard to understand, she read a statement saying, “had I known this was going to happen I would have made better choices.”

Judge Gerald Kinney was critical of the state’s sentencing guidelines.

“If given discretion, I would impose a sentence that was significant but would not be the maximum,” he said.

As the state mandates, Judge Kinney sentenced McKee to natural life in prison.

“She’s confused,” said Bethany McKee’s father, Bill McKee. “She has no idea what’s going on.”

The Rankins family, while still grieving, say they are grateful to Bill McKee. It was McKee who actually called police which led to discovering the victims.

“He did the right thing and we appreciate that, so our prayers go out that family as well,” said D’Arcy Kent, Terrance Rankins’ uncle.

https://abc7chicago.com/bethany-mckee-terrance-rankins-eric-glover-joshua-miner/380156/

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Amanda McGhee Teen Killer Murders 2

Amanda McGhee was fifteen and pregnant when along with her older boyfriend Andrew Mann murdered her father and stepmother. According to prosecutors Amanda McGhee and Andrew Mann planned the double murder for weeks. The teen killers would first shoot her father, who would lay dying for several hours before calling her stepmother home and fatally shooting her. Amanda McGhee would be sentenced to forty five years in prison and Andrew Mann would receive a life sentence

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Supervision Status:	INCARCERATED	Assigned Location:	TENNESSEE PRISON FOR WOMEN
Combined Sentence(s) Length:	45 YRS 0 MTHS 0 DAYS	Supervision/Custody Level:	MEDIUM
Sentence Begin Date:	07/01/2007	Sentence End Date:	06/30/2049

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A woman convicted of killing her father and stepmother in 2007 is now petitioning to have her prison sentence reduced.

Amanda Dawn McGhee, now 26, was only 15 years old when she plotted with her boyfriend, Andrew Bryan Mann, to kill Terrance and Alisa McGhee. The murders took place on June 29, 2007.

In a taped confession, McGhee told investigators that she and Mann plotted the murders over a number of weeks. McGhee told interrogators that the original plot had involved battery acid, but said she and Mann decided to use her father’s gun instead.

McGhee, in the taped interrogation, told police her father Terrance McGhee lay alive for hours in his bed making strange noises before he died. McGhee said she called her stepmother Alisa McGhee at work the day of the murders to tell her she loved her, and to ask when she’d be home.

McGhee was 15 years old and pregnant with Mann’s child. He was 21 at the time. McGhee gave birth while in Knox County Juvenile custody.

McGhee was sentenced in 2009 to 20 years for the death of her father, and 25 years for the death of her stepmother. She’s serving the two sentences consecutively, for a total of 45 years in prison.

She is petitioning for relief from conviction, and her case is set to be heard Nov. 9.

https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Woman-serving-45-years-for-killing-father-stepmother-petitions-for-relief-485013481.html

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The girl who plotted to kill her father and stepmother in 2007 at their Jolly Lane home pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of second degree murder.

Amanda Dawn McGhee was sentenced to 20 years for the death of her father, and 25 years for the death of her stepmother. She’ll serve the two sentences consecutively, for a total of 45 years in prison. However, she can get a 15 percent reduction in her sentence for good behavior.

McGhee conspired with her boyfriend, Andrew Bryan Mann to kill Terrance and Alisa McGhee. The murders took place on June 29, 2007.

McGhee was 15 years old and pregnant with Mann’s child. He was 21 at the time. McGhee gave birth while in Knox County Juvenile custody.

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Amanda McGhee first chance at parole is in 2049

Morgan McDonald Teen Killer Stabs Teen To Death

Morgan McDonald was seventeen years old when she stabbed another teenager to death. According to court documents Morgan McDonald confronted the victim about a man they both have had a relationship with. When the argument escalated the teen killer would stab the other woman in the neck. Although people tried to help the teen she would die from her injuries. Morgan McDonald would be arrested fleeing the scene in North Carolina. Morgan McDonald would be convicted and sentenced to twenty five to thirty one years in prison

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Offender Number:	1488550
Inmate Status:	ACTIVE
Gender:	FEMALE
Race:	WHITE
Ethnic Group:	EUROPEAN/N.AM./AUSTR
Birth Date:	05/21/1998
Age:	22
Current Location:	ANSON CI

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A 19-year-old Camden County woman was sentenced from 25 to 31 years in prison for the death of Summer Faith Waaga, who was 18 at the time of her murder.

According to officials, Morgan Lynn McDonald, 17 at the time, stabbed Waaga on March 13, 2016, in the neck, after confronting her at a sleepover at a home on Butler’s Lane in the county.

News 3 spoke with a friend of both girls back in 2016 who was there when it all happened.

Wyatt Dail says he and Summer had spent the night with other friends at the house on Butlers Lane after watching movies.

The next morning, he says McDonald, whom he had previously dated, came to the house upset.

“Morgan comes in there and starts asking me all kinds of questions, asking me why I didn’t go pick her up the other day and why I’m hanging out with Summer,” said Dail.

At that point, the two girls started arguing.

“Morgan walks out of the room and goes in the room Summer’s in, and then I heard some commotion so I got up to see what happened, and Summer comes up to me and she’s just covered in blood, head to toe,” Dail said.

Dail says he tried to get Summer in a car to get to the hospital but realized they weren’t going to make it.

“The neighbors called the police. They were out on the porch. I looked around in her car to try to find something to stop the blood. I grabbed a t-shirt and she had a pretty bad cut or wound on her neck, so I tied it around there and I was pulling it as tight as I can, trying not to choke her,” Dail said.

Police were called about an assault with a deadly weapon at 11:35 a.m.

When they arrived, they found Summer Waaga lying on the ground in front of a home with a knife in her neck.

A neighbor tried to perform CPR on the woman. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

McDonald was detained after fleeing the scene and heading toward Elizabeth City State University.

https://wtkr.com/2018/05/23/camden-co-woman-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-for-stabbing-death-of-teen/

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A teenager is behind bars in North Carolina accused of stabbing a teenager to death over the weekend.

Officers say Morgan McDonald stabbed Summer Waaga in the neck Sunday.

Police say an argument at a home on Butlers Lane led to the stabbing.

“I just think about how much happiness Summer brought to her mom, and just the peace that her mom would have when they were together, and just how happy that they both were together,” said neighbor and family friend Marie Langemeier. “If they weren’t together, it just seems like the happiness wasn’t there on either end until they were back together.”

Elizabeth City police officers found Waaga in front of a home in the 1000 block of Butlers Lane around 11:35 a.m. Sunday A neighbor was attempting to perform CPR on Waaga when officers arrived.

Medics got there and took Waaga to hospital where she died.

Friends and loved ones turned out for a vigil at the Elizabeth City waterfront park to honor Waaga.

McDonald is in the Albemarle District Jail without bond. She is charged with first degree murder. According to North Carolina law, you are considered an adult once you reach the age of 16.

McDonald’s case is expected to go before a grand jury on April 4.

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Morgan McDonald first chance of parole is 2041