Lavaya May was sixteen when she recruited two friend to help murder a man she alleges abused her. According to court documents Lavaya Mat told two of her friends Tyson Hunter and Jonathan Ruffini that she was abused by the victim for years. The trio decided to get revenge. On the day of the murder Lavaya May stayed at a relatives house while Tyson Hunter and Jonathan Ruffini went to the home of the victim who was struck with a bat over a dozen times before he was fatally stabbed to death. This teen killer would eventually took a plea deal and was sentenced to twenty years and six months in prison.
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Lavaya May admitted to recruiting two of her friends to commit the brutal murder of Ted Lee, in the 20th Circuit Court of Florida Monday.
The events unfolded routinely at court today.
“Do you believe this plea is in your best interest?” Lee County Judge Nicholas Thompson said.
“Yes sir,” May replied.
“Alright,” he said. “I’m going to accept your plea, find you freely, voluntarily and knowingly waive your right.”
As part of the plea deal, May will spend 246 months in state prison, or over 20 years, for second-degree murder.
May, 18, claimed Lee sexually abused her for years. The result of the crime she pleaded to was not routine.
In 2016, a couple of weeks prior to the murder, May, Tyson Hunter and Jonathan Ruffini, were hanging out together, consuming cough syrup while cutting themselves.
May soon broke down.
She revealed to Hunter and Ruffini that Lee had molested her for years. The trio devised a plan to exact revenge on Lee.
On Thursday, July 14, May let her two friends into Lee’s home while she stayed nearby at a relative’s house.
When Lee, 58, walked into his home, Hunter swung a 10-pound Louisville Slugger bat into his head, repeatedly. Lee was hit by the weapon 15 to 20 times. Ruffini then stabbed Lee twice in his torso, making sure Lee was dead.
Hunter and Ruffini proceeded to pour bleach on the areas that were drenched with blood.
May returned to the home and immediately hugged her two friends.
The men wrapped the lifeless body into a rug, sheets and a blanket, proceeding to load the corpse in the trunk of Lee’s car.
The trio fled the scene in the stolen vehicle. Kansas Highway Patrol later stopped them nearby a truck stop in Topeka. They were soon arrested.
Hunter, 25, has pleaded no contest in a plea agreement to charges of grand theft of a motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree murder and fraudulent use of a credit card. He faces up to 40-years in prison.
Ruffini, 20, has pleaded guilty to charges of grand theft of a motor vehicle, conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree murder and fraudulent use of a credit card. His plea agreement stipulates 25 years in state prison, with a reduction of time conditional of his cooperation in the case against May.
Lavaya May did not express much emotion while being sentenced in court Monday.
After she answered the court’s question that the plea was in her best interest, the judge informed her that she would receive credit for time served.
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A Lee County teenager admitted in court he killed his girlfriend’s neighbor.
19-year-old Justin Ruffini entered guilty pleas to 2nd degree murder, illegal use of a credit card and grand theft. As part of his plea deal, he will spend 25 years in prison if he testifies against co-defendant Lavaya May. Prosecutors will decide if he held up to his end of the bargain after May’s trial.
Ruffini’s mother tells said her son was a good kid who was hanging out with the wrong crowd.
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Taymor McIntyre who is better known by his stage name Tay-K had a promising rap career however due to poor choices that is most likely over. Taymor McIntyre was just sentenced for being part of a murder in Texas that took place during a home invasion. Now Tay-K needs to stand trial for another murder he allegedly committed while he was running from the authorities. Taymor McIntyre received a fifty five year sentence for the original charges and most likely will receive a life sentence if this teen killer is found guilty of the second murder.
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Due to Taymore McIntyre is still waiting his second trial for murder he has yet to be entered into the database for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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A jury in Fort Worth has sentenced teen rapper Tay-K to 55 years in prison for the 2016 murder of a father during a home invasion.
Taymor McIntyre, aka Tay-K, was convicted of murder last week in the home invasion shooting death of Ethan Walker.
Taymor McIntyre was sentenced to 55 years for the murder along with 30, 13 and 13 years for three counts of aggravated robbery. The sentences will be served concurrently.
The courtroom was full for closing arguments Tuesday morning. Prosecutors pushed jurors to consider Taymor McIntyre’s character, including his run from the law after being arrested in 2017, and his behavior in jail since he was captured.
Taymor McIntyre’s defense team portrayed him as a teenager trying to make it on his own. They also told jurors there was no principled way they could sentence him to more than the 20-year sentence offered to Meagan Holt, a teenaged girl who participated in the crime and testified during the trial.
Taymor McIntyre raised his profile in 2017 with the song “The Race,” where he rapped about running from a case he could not beat.
“Every lyric to ‘The Race’ is stained with my son’s blood. Every ‘Free Tay-K’ shirt that was ever sold has my son’s blood on it,” the victim’s father, Richard Walker, said.
During the trial, the jury had decided not to deliver a capital murder conviction and a life sentence and, instead, went for a lesser murder conviction.
Taymor McIntyre will have to serve more than 27 years before he has a chance to get out of prison.
He still faces another capital murder charge in San Antonio, which happened while he was on the run in 2017.
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A teenage rapper from Arlington was sentenced Tuesday to 55 years in prison for his part in the murder of a Mansfield man during a 2016 home-invasion robbery
Taymor Travon McIntyre, 19, who goes by the name Tay-K, had been charged with capital murder in the death of 21-year-old Ethan Walker. A Tarrant County jury found him guilty Friday of the lesser charge of murder, as well as one count of aggravated robbery for the shooting and robbery of another man.
McIntyre also pleaded guilty last week to two additional counts of aggravated robbery related to other victims of the home invasion.
He was sentenced to 30 years on one of the robbery counts and 13 years on each of the other two, and ordered to pay a total of $21,000 in fines. The sentences will be served concurrently.
During the trial’s sentencing phase, defense attorney Jeff Kearney noted McIntyre’s musical abilities and asked for lenience, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.
“He has a chance. Let’s not throw him away,” he said. “He is worthy of redemption.”
Prosecutors pointed to McIntyre’s brash behavior both in and out of custody and argued that he enjoyed the infamy from Walker’s slaying.
“Your verdict puts a price on a human life,” prosecutor Bill Vassar said, according to the Star-Telegram. “When you come out here and you read that verdict, you are telling this family what their son’s life is worth.”
McIntyre was among seven people charged in Walker’s slaying, which took place at a home where police had previously performed drug investigations. Authorities believed the robbery was drug-related.
His attorneys argued that McIntyre was unarmed during the robbery and did not know that Walker would be killed.
“The plan was robbery, not killing,” Kearney told the jury.
But prosecutors said McIntyre recruited the gunman, Latharian Devante Merritt, for the home invasion and knew that he was “trigger-happy.”
“He knew what the risks were when he got into this,” prosecutor Jim Hudson said.
Merritt, 25, was found guilty of capital murder in 2018 and has appealed the verdict.
After his arrest in the home-invasion case, McIntyre was on house arrest in March 2017 when he cut off his ankle monitor and fled to San Antonio, authorities say.
While on the lam, he killed a 23-year-old man during a San Antonio robbery and assaulted a 65-year-old man during a robbery in Arlington, police said. Those cases are pending.
He also found time to release his song “The Race,” which made the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 list and brags about evading arrest.
U.S. Marshals captured McIntyre in New Jersey three months after he escaped.
McIntyre faces an additional charge of having a prohibited item in a correctional facility after officials reported finding a cellphone hidden in his underwear at the Tarrant County jail. He later tweeted a photo of himself in the jail with the caption “Live From the Gates of Hell #FreeMe.”
Authorities also have said that McIntyre tried to start a gang while behind bars.
Ashlee Martinson was seventeen years old when she would murder her mother and stepfather who according to her were highly abusive. Ashlee Martinson would lock her siblings in a room before shooting her stepfather and then fatally stabbing her mother. Martinson would then flee the crime scene with her older boyfriend.
This teen killer would end up being convicted of two counts of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty three years in prison
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The appeals court has sided with the circuit court in its denial of a new trial for Ashlee Martinson.
Martinson was sentenced in June 2016 to 23 years in prison for the murders of Thomas and Jennifer Ayres. Jennifer Ayres, 40 and Thomas Ayres, 37, were found in their home outside of Rhinelander in the Town of Piehl.
In December 2017, Martinson’s attorney stated the courts reasoning that Ashlee Martinson was a “normal 17-year-old” is inaccurate. And asked for a sentence reduction.
Her attorney, Mark Schoenfeldt said Martinson had been physically, mentally and emotionally abused by the adults in her life and wasn’t capable of making rational decisions. He said Martinson had reasonable fear of future violence and felt she had no other options.
Court documents state Martinson , fed up with abuse by Thomas Ayres towards her mother, grabbed a gun and intended to kill herself. Thomas Ayres knocked on Martinson’s door and was subsequently shot twice resulting in his death. Martinson’s attorney writes that she believed her mother would comfort her following the incident, but instead became upset and came at Martinson with a knife. Martinson got the knife away from her mother and stabbed her 30 times.
Then-Attorney General Brad Schimel stated the court acted appropriately during sentencing as text messages show Martinson , one day before killing the Ayres, had wrote she hated her parents and wanted to kill Thomas.
Late last month, the appeals court wrote, “Under the circumstances here, we conclude the circuit court did not erreoneously exercise its sentencing discretion when it considered that Martinson had a choice whether to kill.”
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When Ashlee A. Martinson shot and killed her stepfather and stabbed her mother over 30 times on March 7, 2015, it came just moments after she considered using the shotgun on herself.
That was one of many revelations into the home life and history of both Martinson and her mother contained in a 26-page attachment that was filed with her plea paperwork Friday.
The last paragraph of the attachment sums up the problem judge Michael Bloom is faced with on June 17 when he must hand down sentence on her two guilty pleas to the two counts of second degree intentional homicide.
“The defendant turned 17 years old the day prior to the homicides. Had the homicides occurred two (2) days prior, the defendant would have sought to be adjudicated delinquent as a minor rather than convicted as an adult, and by the law placed in a correctional facility for minors only until she reaches 25 years of age, rather than the substantially greater penalty she faces in an adult penal facility,” her lawyers Thomas Wilmouth and Amy Ferguson said in the document.
The rest of the attachment spelled out in stark and graphic detail the physical, mental, verbal and even sexual abuse Ashlee Martinson suffered at the hands of the abusive spouses of her mother, Jennifer Ayers.
Backed by police and court records from Kansas, Colorado and North Dakota, the attachment went into great detail on how Jennifer Ayers was in a series of abusive relationships, and they all took their toll on Ashlee Martinson.
According to the attachment, Jennifer Ayers reported she had been the victim of serial sexual abuse at the hands of her biological father, which was investigated and led to her placement in foster care. She emancipated herself at age 16 and lived independently.
In her Kansas hometown, she married Jeremy Martinson, Ashlee’s father, and there are numerous citations of abuse before she received a divorce on Aug. 27, 2004, when Ashlee was 6 years old.
As her marriage to Jeremy Martinson was ending, Jennifer Martinson entered into a romantic relationship with Jerry Hrabe, moving into the trailer the mother and child received from her ex-husband. Hrabe had a long criminal history that included numerous violent encounters with law enforcement.
Jennifer Martinson told two people she knew in Hays, Kansas that Hrabe “consistently physically and sexually abused her.”
Ashlee Martinson was aware of the abuses, the report said. She would run and hide under the trailer or a nearby bridge when Hrabe’s violent temper erupted, which was usually intensified by alcohol. When Ashlee Martinson was 9 years old, a drunken Hrabe raped her, the report says.
In May 2008, with Hrabe nearing the end of a prison sentence, Jennifer Martinson sought to have a restraining order placed against him upon his release. Instead, she allowed Hrabe to move back into their trailer. By July 2009, he was back to beating her, threatening to kill her and also physically abusing Ashlee.
Eventually, Jennifer Martinson was able to let Hrabe’s parole agent know he was drinking in violation of the terms of his parole and he was arrested.
In November 2010, Jennifer Martinson met Thomas Ayers through an online dating service. It was a year after she was finally able to escape from Hrabe, but Ayers had his own extensive arrest record and several wives and former relationships marred by domestic violence in Colorado that were well documented in the attachment.
In March 2011, Jennifer Martinson took Ashlee to visit Ayers in his Bottineau, North Dakota home. Two months later the two moved in with him and his children from previous relationships. They married on Dec. 19, 2011.
Jennifer Ayers cut off contact with her entire family and friends in Kansas with the exception of occasional contact with a sister.
In the attachment, Ashlee Martinson reported the physical and emotional abuse started against her mother by Thomas Ayers began shortly after they married. She reported the first incident involved Thomas Ayers flying into a rage. He ripped up the kitchen counter, threw a trash can at the wall, slapped his wife, grabbed her by the throat and pushed her against a wall.
Ashlee also told of times her mother would be pushed, smacked, choked and even have a gun to her head.
“The triggers were if something was not cooked correctly, something was not cleaned or she did not rub his back effectively,” the attachment said.
In May 2013, Ashlee Martinson was sent to live with her biological father in Kansas. An artist with a markedly dark artistic perspective, Jeremy Martinson influenced his daughter’s own creative nature.
In December 2013, police were sent to Jeremy Martinson’s house and he admitted to slapping his daughter. She also told police she was also the victim of “punching, shoving and kicking.”
Jeremy Martinson has made no effort since that day the police came to his house, and while aware of her killing her mother and stepfather, he has expressed no interest in assisting her or acting as her guardian.
“He expressed only concern about media reports of the case that would cast him in an unfavorable light,” the attachment said.
While her mother did not want her back, according to the attachment, Thomas Ayers did.
The family moved to the town of Piehl in the summer of 2014. According to the attachment, Ayers wanted “large and secluded land where he could hunt” despite the fact he was not supposed to own weapons, as a domestic abuser and convicted felon.
Ashlee Martinson’s three younger sisters all told captain Terri Hook of the Oneida County Sheriff’s Department, they all were spanked with a belt to the point they all expressed fear of Ayers. He also ruled the house and its occupants with an iron fist with extreme rules.
The girls could not have any visitors to the house, had to ride together on the school bus, and had to rise early to do chores around the house. At the time the two younger children were interviewed after the homicides, they reported the family had recently purchased two German shepherd puppies. They said they witnessed Thomas Ayers physically abuse the dog by choking it, throwing it around. Eventually, he killed the puppy in front of them.
Ashlee Martinson told Hook she witnessed all of the abuse of the people and animals in the home at the hands of Thomas Ayers. She also said her mother would often join in the physical abuse. She added that while she was on the end of mental and verbal abuse at the hands of her stepfather, he did not sexually assault her.
While her rules were less strict than with her younger sisters, she still could not have anyone visit, was only allowed one social visit out of the house a week, had to account for her whereabouts at all times and had to turn over whatever she earned at her job to her stepfather.
In the days leading up to March 7, 2015, Ashlee Martinson was preparing to move out of the house and in with a friend.
The day before the homicides was her 17th birthday, and she sent her boyfriend Ryan Sisco a Facebook message saying “I woke up this morning to my step(-) dad beating my mom… I can’t take that (expletive) anymore, he’s gonna kill her if she doesn’t leave soon and I don’t wanna be around w[h]en that happens … I want to kill him so (expletive) bad, just take one of his guns and blow his (expletive) out.”
On the morning of March 7, 2015, Thomas and Jennifer Ayers confronted Ashlee about her relationship with Sisco, who was 22. She was forbidden from contacting him again and she had to give up her cellphone and keys.
Her mother said Ashlee should leave the house, but Thomas said she should be homeschooled, basically serve the next year under house arrest. Ashlee grabbed some belongings and walked to a neighbor’s house, but Thomas Ayers followed her and took her home.
“According to the defendant, when they arrived home, she went to her bedroom. For the purpose of killing herself, she armed herself with one of the many loaded shotguns lying around the house,” the attachment said.
Thomas Ayers came in the house, went upstairs, and started banging on Martinson’s bedroom door.
“According to the defendant, she at that time considered whether Thomas Ayers should die rather than she,” the attachment said.
One of the younger girls reported hearing two gunshots. The first struck Thomas Ayers in the neck.
“The second shot was a contact wound to his temple,” the attachment said. “The defendant indicates that second shot was fired to ensure that he was dead and could not hurt her.”
When Jennifer Ayers came upstairs, the attachment said that instead of getting the comfort she expected from her mother, Martinson faced being yelled at by her as she tended to Thomas. Martinson said her mother grabbed a knife and came at her, and a struggle ensued. She took the knife from her and stabbed her more than 30 times.
“The defendant acted upon provocation premised upon the reasonable belief in the conduct of Thomas Ayers and Jennifer Ayers, completely losing control at the time of the commission of the homicides, demonstrating anger, rage and exasperation as a person of ordinary intelligence and prudence under similar circumstances would have done,” the attachment said.
Ashlee Martinson was evaluated by doctors Brad E.R. Smith and Sheryl Dolezal who both diagnosed her as suffering from major depressive disorder as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. They concluded she had likely been suffering some level of depression symptoms off and on since about age 8, which became noticeably more intense at around 15.
“The doctors believe the defendant has been the victim of many types of abuse and trauma,” the attachment said. “She has personally experienced physical, sexual and verbal abuse. She has also directly witnessed the physical, sexual and verbal abuse of her mother and physical and verbal abuse of her stepsisters and her half-sister.She has also witnessed the severe abuse of animals by Thomas Ayers.”
The decision facing Bloom is how to punish Ashlee Martinson for ending the cycle of abuse she had endured her entire, then 17-year-old life.
Daniel Marsh was fifteen years old when he broke into an elderly couples home and butchered them. According to court documents Daniel Marsh not only stabbed the couple to death but after they were dead he removed organs from their bodies. Daniel Marsh who once was given an award for saving his fathers life was soon arrested and at trial this teen killer would be quickly convicted and received two sentences of twenty five years to life.
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A sigh of relief rushed over the courtroom as a Yolo County judge ruled Davis murderer Daniel Marsh would remain in prison to serve out his life sentence.
Friends and family members of the victims celebrated in the courthouse halls after the Wednesday ruling. Some said they could “sleep again” now that they know justice has been served.
Judge Samuel McAdam delivered his ruling following a lengthy transfer hearing for Marsh, who is now 21. The hearing reexamined the murders of Oliver “Chip” Northup, 87, and his wife Claudia Maupin, 76, who were stabbed to death on April 14, 2013.
Marsh was 15 when he broke into their home with the intention of killing someone. It was this juvenile status at the time of the crimes coupled with the passage of Proposition 57 that necessitated Marsh’s reappearance in Yolo Superior Court.
McAdam listened to testimony that delved not only into the crime itself but Marsh’s state of mind before, during, and after the murders. Prop. 57 calls attention to factors such as the juvenile’s prior criminal history as well as the sophistication and gravity of the crime, in this case murder.
McAdam rehashed the facts of the case, calling attention to recent testimony, including that of defense expert and forensic child psychiatrist Matthew Soulier. McAdam pointed out Soulier’s unique perspective in that the psychiatrist evaluated Marsh during the original trial and then again for the transfer hearing. Soulier was able to draw a comparison on Marsh that no other expert could, McAdam said.
Soulier explained that much of Marsh’s trauma related to his parent’s divorce in earlier testimony.
Splitting his time between parents, Marsh “had no real accountability in life,” McAdam said. Soulier placed the blame on Marsh’s parents, who despite their son reporting homicidal thoughts to school professionals, failed to keep Marsh in therapy.
Marsh used drugs and alcohol with his friends, had an abusive sexual relationship with his girlfriend and watched “gore porn” on the internet.
“It was all very dark,” McAdam said of these activities.
“In retrospect, it is easy to criticize the parents,” McAdam continued. “But no one is to blame for the crimes here but Daniel Marsh.”
McAdam noted that “Marsh made every effort to conceal his crime,” and that he “left home with the intent to kill.” There was an extraordinary amount of sophistication in this crime, regardless of the offender’s age.
Another factor McAdam considered was whether Marsh could be rehabilitated by age 25, which would be his release date under Prop. 57.
Marsh only started utilizing mental health services in prison during the past six months, McAdam revealed, and his therapy sessions have been focused on adjusting to life behind bars. Although Marsh has not had a violent episode since he started his term, he has not worked through the trauma related to the murders themselves.
McAdam noted that his “counseling has been superficial” and he has yet to fully address his crimes.
“The court’s concern here is that these traumas are triggers,” he said. “He does well in a controlled setting but what happens when he is not in a controlled setting?”
McAdam found that there is “no chance” that Marsh will be rehabilitated before he turns 25.
McAdam, speaking to the gravity of the crime, highlighted Marsh’s video recorded police interview, in which the teenager described his crimes and the feelings connected to them.
“Marsh continued stabbing them because in his words ‘it just felt right,’” McAdam said. “The harm caused by these crimes is incalculable.”
McAdam referenced testimony from the victims’ friends and family, who continue to heal from Marsh’s actions.
“They are still in intense grieving over their deaths,” he said. “Their pain and suffering is palatable.”
On Wednesday, the same could be said for their joy.
“We can sleep again,” Victoria Hurd, the victims’ daughter, exclaimed outside the courtroom. “We are so relieved… we got justice. I feel like we had a really good victory today.”
With McAdam’s ruling Daniel Marsh was transferred back to prison to finish out his original sentence of 52 years to life.
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Eighteen years ago last month, the families of Oliver “Chip” Northup Jr. and Claudia Maupin joined together at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Davis, where they replaced the traditional declaration of “I do” with “we do” as the couple became husband and wife.
They reunited Friday in a Yolo County courtroom, this time not in celebration but to share their memories of their beloved parents, whose brutal stabbing murders on April 14, 2013, unleashed a crippling devastation that spanned several generations, they said.
The emotionally charged hearing ended two hours later with the victims’ killer, 17-year-old Daniel Marsh, receiving the maximum possible sentence of 52 years to life in state prison for his role in one of Davis’ most disturbing crimes.
“The aggravating factors are overwhelming,” Yolo Superior Court Judge David Reed said of the crime, citing Marsh’s meticulous efforts to plan — and later conceal his role in — the murders. Reed also noted that the teen bragged about the slayings, confessing to police that he felt so exhilarated by them that he tried twice to kill again.
“Daniel’s actions cannot be described as impetuous or recklessly impulsive. He thought about killing someone a long time before doing it,” Reed said. “He was proud of what he did. Daniel mutilated Oliver Northup and Claudia Maupin because of morbid curiosity.”
With that, Reed handed down consecutive terms of 25 years to life for each of the murders, plus an additional two years for Marsh’s use of a knife to carry out the crimes.
Daniel Marsh was tried as an adult, although his young age made him ineligible for either the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole. His defense attorneys made a bid for a reduced term of 25 years to life, arguing that the maximum sentence would constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
A lesser term would not guarantee Marsh’s release, “but it gives a promise that there is an opportunity to parole,” Deputy Public Defender Ron Johnson said prior to Reed’s decision. Juvenile offenders should be treated differently, he added, because of their immaturity, impulsivity and lack of insight into the consequences of their actions.
Marsh’s prosecutors disagreed, saying the defendant’s deeds, in fact, warrant harsher punishment than the law currently allows.
In 28 years as a prosecutor, “never have I seen such a heinous and reprehensible act, and never have I seen a defendant with such an evil soul,” said Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Cabral, the case’s lead prosecutor. “This case screams out for 52 years to life. Nothing else would be appropriate.”
Joining the victims’ families in the courtroom were several jurors from Marsh’s trial who had rejected the teen’s insanity defense — claims that his tumultuous family history, his struggles with mental illness and the side-effects of antidepressant medications rendered him unable to know right from wrong at the time of the killings.
Friday’s hearing brought to a close the case that began 20 months earlier when Northup, a longtime attorney and musician for the popular Putah Creek Crawdads folk band, failed to show up for two of the group’s performances. Maupin, a church leader who spoke daily with her three daughters, also was uncharacteristically unreachable.
Police officers conducting a welfare check discovered the bodies of Northup, 87, and Maupin, 76, in the bedroom of their Cowell Boulevard condominium.
Each had been stabbed more than 60 times by a then-unknown intruder who had sliced through a screen and slipped into the condo through an unlocked window. Some suspected a burglary gone awry, or perhaps an act of revenge by a disgruntled client from Northup’s law practice.
Two months later came an arrest, the identity of the suspect nearly as shocking as the crime itself: Daniel Marsh, a Davis High School student who at age 12 was hailed an American Red Cross hero for saving his father, Bill Marsh, from a heart attack.
On Friday, however, the focus shifted to the lives Daniel Marsh had ended as members of Northup and Maupin’s families delivered their victim impact statements, describing as best they could the losses they have endured.
For Mary Northup, the youngest of Chip’s six children from his first marriage, it was her near-daily contact with her father, whom she’d often encounter while taking walks near her workplace.
The murders, she said, left her unable to work or to even experience the typical rituals of grief, as the couple’s home was sealed and many of their belongings seized as part of the crime-scene investigation. The killings became the talk of her youngest son’s school, requiring a switch to a private, out-of-town campus.
All the while, Daniel Marsh demonstrated no remorse or insight into his actions, Mary Northup said.
“After watching the defendant over the past year and a half, I believe the main thing he has learned is not to disclose the details of his next murder,” she said, a reference to Marsh confessing to the killings to two friends, who later reported him to police. “He will never have a moral compass or be able to control his behavior.”
By contrast, Northup was remembered for the values he instilled in his children and grandchildren, including the importance of giving back to their communities. A World War II veteran, Northup later served on the Woodland school board, was active in the Rotary Club and took on social justice issues in his legal practice.
He found his perfect match in Maupin, a woman who smelled of roses and possessed an unwavering zest for life. She brought a comforting presence to all family events, from casual barbecues to childbirths.
“She lived her life loving people, always willing to lend a hand, a shoulder or an ear,” Victoria Hurd, Maupin’s eldest daughter, said in a statement that brought even Cabral and fellow prosecutor Amanda Zambor to tears.
“If she were here, she would help us survive this. … But she is not here, because Daniel Marsh killed my mother for his own perverse gratification,” Hurd added, disclosing that Maupin’s wounds were so extensive, an expert had to restore her body “just so we could hold her hand and kiss her goodbye.”
Northup’s son, James Northup, spoke of the joy of his granddaughter’s birth being shattered by news of the murders, a trauma that led to anxiety and sleeplessness for much of his family and, for him, a recurrence of ALS — also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease — that had previously been in remission.
“I hold Daniel Marsh accountable in a great way,” Northup said. His mother Peggy — Northup’s first wife — presented Reed with a collage of family photos, demonstrating “what one man’s own family of six children represents. All of these people lost a person that they counted on.”
Daniel Marsh did not offer a statement. After receiving his fate, the teen stood and glanced briefly at his father at the rear of the courtroom before officers escorted him away from the hushed audience. He is expected to be sent next month to a state juvenile detention facility, then transferred to state prison upon reaching his 18th birthday.
Because of his juvenile status, Daniel Marsh will receive a mandatory parole hearing upon his 25th year of incarceration, according to Cabral, who said if he’s able he plans to be there to oppose his release.
While Daniel Marsh appeared to cry briefly at one point during the victim impact statements, for the most part he remained stoic, looking down at his folded hands on the table in front of him.
The lack of emotion did not go unnoticed by Hurd, who was a presence in the courtroom throughout Marsh’s prosecution and attended each day of his trial.
“That’s so sad to me,” she said after the hearing. “I don’t know how to wrap my mind around that, that there’s no remorse when people all around the courtroom were sobbing. It’s just really a sad day for everybody.”
A man convicted of killing an elderly California couple when he was 15 years old could be released from prison next year under a state law that would make him eligible at the age of 25.
Daniel Marsh will be in a northern California court Wednesday as part of his efforts to be freed early, despite his conviction and 52-years-to-life prison sentence for the 2013 murders of Oliver Northup, 87, and Claudia Maupin, 76. The victims – a husband and wife – were stabbed more than 60 times each.
“Close your eyes for a second. Let that sink in – 128 times he stabbed them,” Sarah Rice, Maupin’s granddaughter, told local affiliate FOX 40 earlier this month.
Rice and other family members were joined by the district attorney from Yolo County – where a jury convicted Marsh – last week to denounce his and others’ early release, according to the report.
“What he’s been doing for the past eight years is honing his skill,” Rice previously told the news station. “I hate to think that he has the capacity to do it again, but he’s already said he would.”
The California law, which was passed in 2018, gives offenders convicted of most violent crimes committed as juveniles the chance to be set free when they turn 25.
Marsh was 15 in April 2013 when he murdered and mutilated the elderly couple in Davis. Marsh had targeted their home after searching the area for open doors and windows to get to potential prey, according to FOX 40. He sliced a hole into a window screen at their home and looked on as his victims slept, the station has reported.
“This was not a crime of passion or juvenile impulse. It was a well-planned and executed random act of violence,” Mary Northup, the daughter of one of Marsh’s victims, said in 2018.
Investigators found no forensic evidence linking Marsh to the crime, but the teen confessed to authorities after another teen told police Marsh had been boasting about the slayings, “48 Hours” reported.
“It was the most horrific, depraved murder I’ve ever seen as the district attorney in this county,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig told “48 Hours” at the time.
Marsh allegedly told authorities he dreamed of being a serial killer and, according to FOX 40, told investigators he enjoyed the slayings.
He pleaded not guilty, claiming insanity, and was tried as an adult in 2014, local reports state.
Marsh, who is now 24, is expected to appear in court at 2 p.m. local time, or 5 p.m. ET.
Daniel Marsh, who was convicted of a brutal double murder in Davis when he was a teen, will remain in prison after his appeal to be released on SB 1391 was denied.
Marsh has been pushing to be released as part of SB 1391, a law that prohibits adult prosecution of juveniles under 16. Marsh was 15 when Claudia Maupin and Chip Northup were murdered.
Maupin and Northup’s family have been campaigning to stop Marsh from being released
“This is not a juvenile who needs a second chance. This is a man who thought about what he was doing and has been quoted as saying he would do it again,” Victoria Hurd, Maupin’s daughter, previously told CBS13.
Marsh had an appeal hearing back in August. He could have been released as early as next May on his 25th birthday.
However, on Wednesday, family says they were notified that Marsh’s appeal had been denied. He will remain in prison and serve out his sentence.
Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards were fifteen years old when they would murder Kims mother and her sister. According to court documents the two teen killers decided to murder Kim’s mom and sister because they thought the mother wanted to break up the pair. The thirteen year old sister was collateral damage. Lucas would stab the mother to death in her room before killing the thirteen year old girl. The two would have sex after the murders and watch the Twilight movies. Both would be sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 17 years
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One of the two so-called teen “Twilight” killers in the UK who murdered his girlfriend’s mother and sister recalled the brutal slayings in a documentary which aired Monday.
Lucas Markham and his girlfriend Kim Edwards, both 15, are each serving 20 years for last year’s murders of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards in the town of Spalding.
Judges in London recently allowed the identities of the two teen killers to be revealed. In the documentary that aired on Channel 5 in the UK, Markham recalled how he ended the two lives while his girlfriend looked on.
“I went into her mum’s room and stabbed her in the neck while she was asleep on her side and smothered her face with a pillow,” Markham told police of last year’s murders, according to the Sun.
“And after I knew she had gone, I went into Katie’s room — which is the same room as Kim’s – and I thought I stabbed her, but … I thought I stabbed her, but I’m not a hundred per cent sure — it was, like, her on a mattress and then I smothered her face with a pillow too,” he continued.
The teen killers had sex, took a bath and watched all for of the “Twilight” flicks after the murders were committed in April of last year.
They committed the murders because they believed Elizabeth Edwards wanted to break them up, according to the Sun.
When Kim Edwards was asked about the murders, she told cops, “I was OK with it,” according to the Sun.
“My mum does not have to deal with me anymore being suicidal, and she does not have to wake up worrying every morning to see if I am still alive,” she said, according to the British newspaper. My sister does not have to go through all the heartbreak and like just all the emotions and stuff.”
Both teens were given 20-year sentences in November.
“The murders of Elizabeth and Katie Edwards were horrific and brutal and the whole country shared a sense of shock that two juveniles, who were only 14 years old at the time, could have carried out such a horrendous act,” Detective Superintendent Martin Holvey of the Lincolnshire Police Department said in a statement earlier this month.
“I’m sure that sense of disbelief and horror will be deepened now it is known that it was Elizabeth’s own daughter who was responsible for plotting with her boyfriend to carry out the murders.”
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