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Morgan Leppert Teen Killer Murders Elderly Man

Morgan Leppert was fifteen years old when she murdered an elderly man in Florida. According to court documents Morgan started to date a much older man and needless to say her father was not impressed. The couple decided to run away by stealing the vehicle of an elderly man. However that plan quickly went out the window as the robbery turned into a murder. Once arrested the older boyfriend quickly turned against Morgan to avoid the death penalty. This teen killer would be convicted and sentenced to life in prison with no parole

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DC Number:	V33819
Name:	LEPPERT, MORGAN A
Race:	WHITE
Sex:	FEMALE
Birth Date:	01/12/1993
Initial Receipt Date:	10/01/2009
Current Facility:	FL.WOMENS RECPN.CTR
Current Custody:	CLOSE
Current Release Date:	SENTENCED TO LIFE

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Morgan Leppert accused in the brutal murder of a Putnam County man in 2009 was re-sentenced this week to life with parole.

Leppert, the self-described “blue-eyed devil,” had been sentenced to life without parole in the murder of 66-year-old James Stewart.

She was 15 at the time, and she and her boyfriend, Toby Lowry, killed the disabled man and stole his car.

Lowry pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.

Morgan was tried and convicted, but under the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that teens under the age of 18 cannot be sentenced to life without parole she was eligible for a re-sentencing hearing.

The judge gave her life with parole chances. Her case will be reviewed in 25 years.

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Viewers heard the chilling laughter of child murderer Morgan Leppert in police interview tapes from ITV documentary Children Who Kill. The show saw presenter Susanna Reid meet Leppert, who was labelled the ‘blue eyed devil’ aged 15 when she was convicted of the murder of an elderly disabled man back in 2008. The 62-year-old man named James Stewart, was stabbed multiple times in his Florida home with metal rods and a knife, before being suffocated with a plastic bag by the teenager and her 22-year-old boyfriend Toby Lee Lowry.

Susanna met Morgan on the show as she serves a life sentence without parole, where she states how she was blinded by the relationship with her boyfriend. Asked what she’d say to her 15-year-old self, Morgan said: ‘I wish I wasn’t so naïve and gullible. I wish I could have listened. It was like a dream. It was like every girl’s dream where you have a guy and I was the last man on earth I thought he was going to be with.

He turned out be a monster. He took my life away from me. ‘What stopped me running away from him? I was scared of getting killed, so I let him do what he did because I was scared of him. I wish I was smart enough then like I am now.’

The interview was interspersed with old police interview tapes, where teenage Morgan can be seen chuckling as she confirms her boyfriend is 22

Asked about the age gap at the time, Morgan said: ‘He told me he was going to do whatever he had to just to be with me. But I didn’t know he was going to take it that far.’

Her boyfriend escaped the death penalty and received the same life sentence as his 15-year-old girlfriend, with Morgan fighting back the tears in her taped audio confession.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/16/teenage-killer-morgan-leppert-laughs-disturbing-police-tapes-admits-murdering-disabled-elderly-man-7317780/

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A tearful apology and years of good behavior behind bars weren’t enough to change a life sentence for Morgan Amanda Leppert Wednesday in Putnam County.

In a new sentencing, Circuit Judge Patti Christensen still gave the 23-year-old a life term for killing a 66-year-old Melrose man when she was 15.

“I regret every one of those choices we made that night,” Leppert said, also referring to her then-boyfriend Toby Lee Lowry.

“I hope that one day you can find it in your heart to forgive me,” she said, reading from a lined sheet of notebook paper, her hands sometimes trembling.

The letter was intended in part for the family of James Thomas Stewart, the victim who was beaten, stabbed and suffocated in 2008 so Leppert and her 22-year-old boyfriend could steal his truck and leave Florida. None of Stewart’s family attended the hearing.

Christensen said she had no choice under the law but to give the life sentence in the case because Leppert intended to kill Stewart.

Lowry, 30, also previously agreed to a life sentence in order to avoid the death penalty.

Leppert’s case was eligible for review after a Florida Supreme Court decision last year that juveniles involved in a killing cannot be sentenced to life without being given special consideration. She was sentenced to life in 2009.

“I feel constrained that I have to do this,” Christensen said Wednesday.

Stewart, who was born without hands, had been dead for days when his body was found. During the attack at his home, Stewart was having difficulty breathing, Christensen said, recounting what Leppert told detectives at the time.

He asked Leppert and Lowry, “Why are y’all going to kill me?”

Christensen said that was convincing of Leppert’s involvement. Then Leppert was told to find a plastic bag to suffocate the former commercial fisherman.

“At that point there was only one reason to get that bag,” the judge said.

Members of Leppert’s family and other supporters were the only others in the courtroom. Leppert, in a blue prison uniform and shackles teared up and at one point buried her head in one hand after Christensen read the sentence.

Her supporters declined to comment after the hearing that took less than 30 minutes.

Leppert also was sentenced to 50 years each on convictions of other charges of burglary with battery and robbery with a deadly weapon.

Christensen said Leppert’s sentence on the murder charge will be up for review in 25 years.

She noted that Leppert had earned her high school equivalency and a cosmetology certificate while in prison and urged her to continue good behavior to help with that review.

“Be a good citizen in prison,” the judge said.

Leppert and Lowry were caught in Texas about a week after killing Stewart when she was recognized from a nationwide Amber Alert.

In earlier hearings to determine what the sentence will be, Leppert’s attorney argued that the teen was under the influence of her 22-year-old boyfriend and that she was immature and highly submissive. She had no prior criminal history.

“I wish I never ran away with him.” Leppert said in her letter.

She also was pregnant when she went to prison but believed she miscarried, her attorney, Valarie Linnen, said.

Prosecutor Chris France argued in the previous hearings that Leppert was the one in charge, based on observations of a homeless hitchhiker she and Lowry picked up after the murder and who was with them for days. Robert Bruckner said Leppert hit Lowry during arguments and that Lowry was docile around her.

When Morgan Leppert arrived at Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, she became Florida’s youngest female prison inmate.

Linnen said she will file an appeal.

https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20160608/NEWS/801249248

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Sarah Kolb Teen Killer Murders Adrianne Reynolds

Sarah Kolb was sixteen years old when she helped to murder a teenage girl with her boyfriend seventeen year old Cory Gregory. According to court documents a new girl had arrived at school named Adrianne Reynolds and she apparently made a mistake of flirting with Cory. Sarah became upset and began to plan the murder of Adrianne.

The couple invited Reynolds out for lunch and soon thereafter the attack began. Adrianne was held down by Gregory while Sarah strangled her with a belt causing her death. After she was dead Gregory and Kolb attempted to burn the body but failed to do so. They involved another teen who would dismember the body with a chainsaw before placing the remains in a garbage bag and dropping it off at a historic site. The body of Adrianne Reynolds would be found a few days later. Sarah and Cory would both soon be arrested and after the court was through. The two teen killers would receive sentences of forty five years for him and fifty three years for her

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Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory made national headlines when they murdered classmate Adrianne Reynolds

According to court documents Adrianne Reynolds had recently moved to East Moline, Illinois when she met Sarah Kolb and Cory Gregory. There are some who were there at the time who have said when Adrianne flirted with Cory it angered Sarah and she then hatched a plan to murder the girl

Sarah and Cory invited Adrianne out for lunch and soon after the two girls began to fight. Cory would hold Adrianne down while Sarah strangled her with a belt. After the murder the two teens then drove to Cory parents farm where they attempted to burn the corpse which failed. The two then recruited another teen to help them dismember the body. After that nasty task was completed the trio went out for lunch

Adrianne family reported her missing when she did not show up at work and police would find her remains a few days later. Sarah and Cory were soon arrested and charged with first degree murder

Sarah Kolb first trial ended in a hung jury as all jurors could not reach a unanimous decision. At her retrial she would be convicted on all counts and sentenced to fifty three years in prison

Cory Gregory was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to forty five years in prison

The third teen received a juvenile sentence and was released after four years

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Sarah Kolb, serving a 50-year sentence for the killing of Adrianne Reynolds, 16, has lost an attempt to get a new sentencing hearing.

Kolb was also 16 when Reynolds was strangled on Jan. 21, 2005, in a car at a Moline restaurant, according to authorities. In 2006, a jury found Kolb guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a homicidal death. She was later sentenced to 48 years in prison for the murder charge, and five years for the concealment charge. With credits for which Kolb qualified, the actual sentence was about 50 years.

Kolb has been pursuing a new sentencing hearing, but her filing, a petition for postconviction relief, was rejected Friday by Judge Gregory G. Chickris when he granted the Rock Island County State’s Attorney’s Office’s motion to dismiss.

Kolb was arguing that her original sentence was illegal because she was a minor when convicted, according to court documents. Such a sentence is essentially a life sentence for a minor and the court must take into account the defendant’s youth and its characteristics when imposing such a sentence.

Those characteristics include actual age, ability to appreciate the consequences of an act, family, home environment and competence to deal with police or assist in the defense.

Kolb claimed the sentencing court did not properly weigh all of the required factors, the documents state.

In its motion to dismiss, the Rock Island County State’s Attorney’s Office contended that the trial court adequately considered the required criteria and that Kolb’s arguments had not met the required deadline for filing.

The motion also stated that the appellate court upheld the conviction and sentence.

Kolb’s codefendant, Cory Gregory, was 17 when Reynolds was killed, and pleaded guilty in a plea deal to first-degree murder and concealing a homicidal death in relation to her slaying.

He was sentenced to 40 years on the murder charge and five years on the concealment charge, with credits reducing the sentence to about 42 years.

Gregory also argued for a new sentencing hearing, and Judge Peter Church ruled in May that he should get one, according to court records. The state’s attorney’s office has appealed, and a new sentencing hearing had not yet been scheduled as of Friday.

https://qctimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/sarah-kolb-s-attempt-at-new-sentence-for-murder-of/article_1d52c029-e899-5bdb-8eef-22e294689a61.html

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The stepmother of a 16-year-old girl whose body was burned, sawed and hidden in two counties said the teen convicted in the killing is “a girl without a soul.”

“She didn’t cry, I didn’t see nothing from her,” Joann Reynolds said Wednesday after a jury found 17-year-old Sarah Kolb guilty of first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the death of Adrianne Reynolds.

Kolb’s court-appointed attorney, though, said the teen is not the vindictive killer portrayed by prosecutors. David Hoffman said he spoke briefly with Kolb after the verdict.

“She was scared and anxious and now she’s probably as depressed as hell. That’s the way I would be,” Hoffman said.

Adrianne Reynolds had just moved to East Moline from Texas about two months before she was killed. Prosecutors said she was just trying to fit in at a new school but picked the wrong friend.

The verdict came in Kolb’s second trial in three months. The first ended in a mistrial after a Rock Island County jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction and the retrial was moved to Dixon because of media coverage.

The Reynolds and Kolb families wept quietly as the jury was polled. Kolb’s family declined comment as they left the courthouse, but Hoffman said they were “devastated.”

Jurors declined comment as they rushed past a crowd of reporters outside the courthouse.

Kolb faces up to 60 years in prison, but no sentencing date has been set. Her ex-boyfriend, 18-year-old Cory Gregory of East Moline, also is charged with first-degree murder and concealing a homicide. He has pleaded not guilty and is to stand trial May 1.

Prosecutors allege Kolb, Reynolds and Gregory were in Kolb’s car at a Moline fast-food restaurant when a fight began Jan. 21, 2005. Authorities have determined that Reynolds was killed in the car.

In closing arguments this week, Prosecutor Jeff Terronez said Kolb wrote in a class journal that she was going to kill Reynolds just hours before Reynolds was beaten and strangled. Several witnesses testified that Kolb made similar threats in the weeks before Reynolds’ death.

Hoffman told jury that Gregory killed Reynolds, citing testimony by a woman who saw Kolb alone in the car’s front seat.

Terronez told jurors that Kolb likely did not kill Reynolds, but still was accountable by law because she instigated the fight and aided in the death by choking and beating Reynolds before Gregory “finished her off.”

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R53995 – GREGORY, CORY C.

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

Admission Date:	04/15/2022
Projected Parole Date:	07/26/2047
Last Paroled Date:
Projected Discharge Date:	07/27/2050

Sarah Kolb Appeal Denied

An appellate court has denied the resentencing request of one of Adrianne Reynolds’ killers this week.

Sarah Kolb, 34, is one of the individuals convicted of murdering and dismembering the body of 16-year-old Adrianne Reynolds back in 2005. Kolb was 16 at the time and was sentenced to 53 years in prison.

Back in January, Kolb’s defense team asked the Third District Appellate Court in Ottawa to reduce her sentence, alleging that the judge in the original case did not take several factors into account when deciding her sentence, such as age, competence and family background.

Her legal team also argued that the sentence is a cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment — due to her age of 16 years at the time of the murder, her case conflicts with a 2019 Illinois Supreme Court decision that ruled that any sentence over 40 years for a juvenile is considered a life sentence.

Wednesday’s decision says Kolb’s team failed to show evidence that the original judge did violate her Eighth Amendment rights.

The case was similar to a previous request for clemency in Kolb’s case that was initiated in 2022 but was halted due to “unforeseen circumstances” and a previously failed sentence reduction request.

Just under a year ago, a Rock Island County judge upheld the 45-year sentence of Harli Quinn, formerly known as Cory Gregory.

At that time, Reynolds’ stepmother, Joann Reynolds, took the stand to read a victim impact statement. She told the court she was disgusted, saying Adrianne was the one who had been given the death penalty.

“It’s been 17 years since her life was taken. Every day of my life, I think about her fighting and kicking for her life. I think about her gasping for air. I think about body parts down that manhole,” Joann said.

Sarah Kolb denied resentencing by Appellate Court 3rd District | wqad.com

Nicole Kasinskas Teen Killer Murders Mother

Nicole Kasinskas was sixteen when she plotted and murdered her mother in New Hampshire. According to court documents Nicole Kasinskas and her boyfriend William Sullivan conspired to kill her mother as the sixteen year old was worried her mother would not let her leave the State with her new boyfriend. On the day of the murder William Sullivan hit the woman over the head with a bat and fatally stabbed her. Nicole Kasinskas was not in the home as the murder occurred but would help clean up the evidence after it was over. This teen killer would testify against William Sullivan for a lesser sentence and in the end she would be sentenced to thirty five years to life in prison.

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Nicole Kasinskas

Inmate Number: 77869

Max Date: 7/13.2105

Location: NH Correctional Facility For Women

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the teen who plotted her mother’s murder with her Willimantic boyfriend and stepped over her mother’s body to fetch a cloth so he could wipe off the blood, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in New Hampshire Thursday.

The sentencing — described as “heart-wrenching” by one prosecutor — was held before Judge William Groff in Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua, N.H.

Kasinskas, 18, declined to make a statement, but wept as her mother’s fiance tearfully recalled Jeanne Dominico’s love for her daughter and how that love was repaid.

Kasinskas will likely serve 35 years or less. Two-and-a-half years were removed from the sentence because Kasinskas obtained a GED, said her lawyer, Adam Bernstein. Another 2 1/2 years will be shaved off if she completes college, he said.

Kasinskas can ask for a further reduction after serving two-thirds of the sentence, said Senior Assistant Attorney General Will Delker.

Kasinskas pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder on March 28 in exchange for testifying against her boyfriend, William Sullivan, 20.

Sullivan’s lawyers argued that he was insane at the time of Dominico’s death and have appealed his July 15 conviction. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

In handing down the sentence, Groff told Nicole Kasinskas that she is just as guilty as Sullivan, even though she didn’t carry out the murder.

“The judge said that Nicole was every bit as culpable as Billy Sullivan. [Her] sentence is not a light sentence,” Delker said. “It’s one of the longest we ever got in a case like that.”

Unhappy that Dominico wouldn’t let Kasinskas move to Connecticut with Sullivan — whom she had met through the Internet — they tried to kill her with poison, burning her in her bed and by attempting to blow up her house.

On Aug. 6, 2003, Sullivan struck up a conversation with Dominico, 43, in her Nashua living room. Then he hit her in the head with a baseball bat and stabbed her more than 40 times, using three different knives, according to testimony from his trial. All the while, Kasinskas, then 16, waited at a nearby 7-Eleven. Kasinskas testified during Sullivan’s trial that she reluctantly went into her house after Sullivan killed her mother to retrieve a cloth for him to wipe off her mother’s blood. She had to push her mother’s body with the door to get inside, she said.

Victim Advocate Jennifer Hunt, who was in the courtroom, summarized statements made by Dominico’s fiance, Christopher McGowan, and others, including Amybeth Kasinskas, Nicole’s half-sister.

In his statement, McGowan said it was hard for him to think about Kasinskas sitting in Sullivan’s car in the store’s parking lot, reading a magazine while the slaying was taking place. He said that during a cellphone conversation with Sullivan before he carried out the crime, she had heard her mother cry out: ‘Nicole, come home!”‘ McGowan said.

“If only you had,” he said.

He noted that the victim was so well-liked that a school put up a bench and planted a tree in her memory, and the city named a ball field after her

In her statement, Amybeth Kasinskas talked about how hurtful Nicole’s poor choices were, and how she loved Dominico as she would her own mother.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2005-09-09-0509090020-story.html

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Berenice Juarez Teen Killer Murders Mother’s Boyfriend

Berenice Juarez was sixteen years old when she lured her mother’s boyfriend to a parking lot and fatally stabbed him. According to authorities Berenice Juarez would pretend to be her mother and sent a text message to the victim asking to meet her at a parking lot. When the victim showed up he was fatally stabbed by the teen killer. Did not take police long to figure out who was responsible for the killing and Berenice Juarez was quickly taken into custody. Berenice Juarez was initially sentenced to life in prison without parole however this would later be reduced to fifty one years

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DC Number:	164009
Name:	JUAREZ, BERENICE
Race:	HISPANIC
Sex:	FEMALE
Birth Date:	05/23/1993
Initial Receipt Date:	09/14/2011
Current Facility:	LOWELL ANNEX
Current Custody:	CLOSE
Current Release Date:	03/19/2059

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Before Berenice Juarez became a convicted killer at age 18, the Delray Beach teen suffered the horror of childhood sexual abuse and witnessed violent attacks in her home.

Her resulting psychological problems should be a factor when she is re-sentenced for the Feb. 17, 2010 stabbing death of her mother’s boyfriend, Gildardo Ramos Paz, 47, argued Juarez’s attorneys on Thursday.

“If you grow up in an environment of fear, violence, trauma, stress, it changes the way you think,” said Assistant Public Defender Scott Pribble. “We believe the court can really gain insight into why she did this.”

It’s been almost a year since a state appellate court threw out Juarez’s life sentence because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that mandatory life terms are unconstitutional for juveniles who commit murder. Juarez was 16 when she killed Paz.

Now, the decision is up to Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Karen Miller about whether Juarez, now 21, still deserves a life sentence or a shorter term that gives her chance at freedom.

Miller said she will consider the defense’s new arguments — including remarks by Juarez and the testimony of psychologists during a four-hour hearing — before announcing her ruling May 7.

The Supreme Court still allows life sentences when a juvenile’s crime is so heinous and the possibility of rehabilitation is extremely slim.

Donis Ramos, daughter of the victim, says she hopes Berenice Juarez doesn’t receive a lesser sentence. With tears welling in her eyes, Ramos held up a photo of Paz with his grandson, who was only 2 months old at the time of the murder.

“Did she have compassion on my father?” Ramos said in Spanish, in remarks translated for the court. “She destroyed my life and that of my brothers and my mother.”

The minimum sentence required under state law is 40 years, which is what Pribble and Assistant Public Defender Mattie Fore requested in light of their client’s troubled past and prospects for rehabilitation.

But regardless of the new sentence, Juarez will be eligible to ask a court to review her case after serving 25 years in prison — or when she is 41 years old.

Aleathea McRoberts, chief of the homicide division at the State Attorney’s Office, asked Miller to impose another life sentence and leave it up to another court to reconsider the matter two decades from now.

The prosecutor said there “isn’t justification” for a reduced term, considering the “cold-bloodedness” of Juarez and her “sophistication” in plotting and then carrying out Paz’s murder.

Delray Beach police lead detective Jason Jabcuga, calling it one of the worst killings he’s seen in his career, urged the judge not to reduce Juarez’s sentence

“I have no doubt in my mind that Berenice is a killer, and if she gets out of prison she will do this again,” Jabcuga testified.

On the morning of the murder, Berenice Juarez lured Paz to a parking lot at Congress Avenue and Linton Boulevard by pretending to be her mother, Edith Martinez, and texting him to meet her at 6:40 a.m. that day. The teen said she disapproved of their relationship.

At her 2011 trial, Juarez testified said she didn’t intend for Paz to die, but wound up stabbing him with a knife she had recently stolen from a Walmart.

My emotions got to me, my heart was racing; I just got out of control,” she told the jury, adding she just wanted “to scare him off.”

The teen then walked away, wiped Paz’s blood from the blade onto her sock, ditched the knife in a trash can and continued on to classes at Atlantic High School.

“Day to day I live with the fact that I have taken someone’s life,” Juarez said in a statement she read to the court on Thursday. “I had no right to do what I did.”

Juarez also said she wants a “fresh start” and a “second chance.”

“I want to be accepted back into productive society,” she said, noting how she has obtained a high school diploma since entering prison and is no longer an angry person.

Jason Demery, a neuropsychologist who has reviewed Juarez’s case and interviewed her in January, said she is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

“She has a significant trauma history,” he said, noting her sexual abuse at the hands of a cousin, and watching her mother being abused by a former boyfriend.

Sheila Rapa, a clinical and forensic psychologist, testified by phone that Juarez is an excellent candidate for rehabilitative treatment and is “100 percent open” to it.

Also providing testimony were Juarez’s mother, father, and two older brothers, all asking Judge Miller for leniency.

Francisco Juarez Sr., the felon’s dad, spoke through an interpreter.

“When [the murder] happened she was a minor and I know sometimes young people don’t think about things,” he said. “I ask that you reduce the sentence as much as you can.”

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Ashley Jones Teen Killer Murders Family In Alabama

Ashley Jones was fourteen when she would participate in the murders of her grandfather and aunt and attempted murders of her sister and grandmother. According to court documents Ashley family did not approve of her relationship with Geramie Hart who was sixteen years old. On the day of the attack Ashley and Geramie would enter the home and would shoot seventy six year old Deroy Nalls twice in the head before going into the bedroom of thirty year old Millie Nalls who would be shot three times but would not die immediately, the woman was beaten, stabbed and set on fire. Seventy five year old Mary Nalls would be shot in the shoulder.

Deroy Nalls who was still alive would be stabbed repeatedly before being set on fire. Ashley sister, Mary Jones, who was ten years old would be stabbed repeatedly by Ashley. Ashley and Geramie Hart would steal money from the home before setting the home on fire. Mary Jones and Mary Nalls would escape from the home and alerted authorities. The two teen killers would be sentenced to life without parole

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Geramie Hart, who celebrated his 16th birthday a few weeks before these crimes, and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Ashley Jones, apparently planned to kill members of Ashley’s family because her family did not approve of Ashley’s relationship with Hart. Ashley and her 10-year-old sister, Mary Jones, lived with their grandparents, 76-year-old Deroy Nalls and 75-year-old Mary Nalls. One of Deroy and Mary’s daughters and Ashley’s aunt, 30-year-old Millie Nalls, also lived in the house.

Late in the evening on August 29, 1999, Deroy was in the den watching television. His wife, daughter, and younger granddaughter were asleep in their rooms. Ashley let Hart into the house; he was armed with Deroy’s .38 caliber pistol, which Ashley had given him earlier. Ashley and Hart entered the den, and Hart shot Deroy twice in the face. Deroy did not die immediately; he stumbled toward the kitchen.

Ashley Jones and Hart then entered Millie’s bedroom and shot her three times. She survived the gunshots, and they then hit her with portable heaters, stabbed her in the chest, and set her room on fire. The pair next entered Mary Nalls’s bedroom and fired the last bullet from the gun into her shoulder. Hart was wearing a bandana over his face, but Ashley’s grandmother recognized him. Hart also identified himself to Mrs. Nalls.

Ashley Jones and Hart returned to discover that Deroy was still alive. Hart hit him with various objects and stabbed him repeatedly, leaving the knife in his back. Ashley poured charcoal lighter fluid on her grandfather and set him on fire. Ashley’s sister, Mary, woke up and Ashley led her into the kitchen area. She saw her grandfather on the floor of the den; he was on fire but still alive, Mary said. Hart forced Deroy Nalls to disclose where he kept his money, and after Mr. Nalls complied, Hart stabbed him in the throat. Mrs. Nalls who survived after being stabbed, could not remember whether Hart or Ashley had stabbed her.

Ashley poured the charcoal fluid on Mrs. Nalls, then they set her on fire. Ashley and Hart watched Mrs. Nalls burn, and Hart urged Ashley to pour more of the flammable liquid on her. Mary Jones attempted to leave the kitchen, but Ashley Jones grabbed her sister and began hitting her. Hart pointed the gun at the 10-year-old and said, “This is how you are going to die.” (R. 686.) Ashley said, “No, let me do it,” and stabbed her sister 14 times. Hart and Ashley piled sheets, towels, and paper on the floor and set the pile on fire.

Hart and Ashley Jones took $300 that was hidden beneath Deroy and Mary Nalls’s mattress and drove away in the Nallses’ vehicle. Mary Jones, who had pretended to be dead, helped her grandmother out of the house and contacted others for assistance.

The coroner determined that Deroy and Millie Nalls died from the stab and gunshot wounds they sustained. He testified that both victims suffered greatly from their wounds before they died. Mary Jones was treated for the numerous stab wounds Ashley inflicted. Mary Nalls, who sustained burns to 35% of her body, was taken to a burn unit, where she was also treated for the gunshot and stab wounds she suffered. She was hospitalized for weeks, received skin grafts, and underwent extensive rehabilitative therapy.

Hart and Ashley Jones were arrested the next morning in a hotel room. The Nallses’ vehicle was in the parking lot of the hotel. Hart and Jones gave voluntary statements describing their involvement in the murders and attempted murders of Jones’s family members.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-court-of-criminal-appeals/1440434.html

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