Charlotte Vera was born on the 29th of August 2006 her mother was Susan witra Susan had been enrolled at the University of Phoenix College and she also served four years in the Marine Corps her boyfriend was Doran Sanders who was also ex Army they all lived together in Arizona now in August of 2009 Sanders called 911 to report that Charlotte who was then 3 years old was not breathing a police officer went to the home and Sanders directed him to an upstairs bathroom where he found chariot lying on the floor Susan was kneeling
over her crying and begging Chara to breathe the officer observed that Chara’s skin was very light blue in color her mouth was open and her eyes were rolled back into her head he also noticed that she was heavily marked around the body between her waist and her knees and from her shoulders to her elbows the officer formed CPR on Chara until paramedics arrived and transported her to the hospital the doctors could not revive Charlotte and she was pronounced dead at the hospital chandela police detective Chris keeper spoke with
Sanders at the hospital Sanders told him that he went to Walgreens to buy cigarettes and left Chara at home with her mother Susan when he got back to the house he got his wallet and he checked on Chara Chara was in the bathroom using the toilet and she was okay so he went back to Walgreens and was gone for around 5 to 10 minutes when he returned home the second time he checked on the child again and she wasn’t breathing so he could not explain why she stopped breathing claiming ignorance he said that there had been no problems except
that she won’t eat her dinner when the police asked him okay but why did this child have so many injuries he said well these injuries were from times where she didn’t listen he said the these incidences occurred around 900 p.m. the night before and that both he and Susan had done this to Chara with clothing instruments and just like that from I don’t know to yes we did this he claimed that was the last time she’d been injured throughout that night and continuing onto the following day police then interviewed him again and initially
Sanders repeated the story he told the previous detective Sanders added however that he and Susan had been mocking Chara by using different instruments because she wouldn’t listen he estimated that they would do this four or five times once or twice a week wow he said the discipline began a couple of weeks after Chara returned to Arizona she had spent some time in 2009 living with Susan’s relatives for several months but as this police interview continued his story changed he eventually admitted that Charlotte was injured on the day of her
death but he claimed that Susan did Chara with a leather instrument maybe three or four times and she did this because the child would not listen so now he’s blaming Susan he also stated that charlott’s injuries on both her legs had been there since the Saturday before her death because both he and Susan injured her that day Sanders maintained however that the only thing he used was clothing items oh well as if that’s okay he also denied injuring Chara with the Buckle well as Noble of you Muppet so police decided to do a
search of the residence they found a black belt with tape around the buckle on the bathroom counter he identified the belt as his when police asked him whose fault it was that Charlotte was murdered he said that he would take full blame because he’s the male and he’s more physical he also admitted that he accidentally marked Chara with the bathroom door when he came home from Walgreens to get his wallet he stated he did this to Charlotte shortly before he left for Walgreens because she didn’t listen and she just kept making noise he
explained that Charlotte was supposed to be putting her underwear back on after using the toilet but she just sat there on the bathroom floor and because she didn’t listen by not putting her underwear on Sanders again made her cry and she tried to stand up but fell and then he continued now later an autopsy was performed by Medical examiner Kevin Horn Dr horn found multiple abrasions on her face the autopsy revealed a subdural Hemorrhage under her scalp and according to Dr horn this was caused more than just an everyday Force he said that the
injury was similar to injuries caused by a fall from a significant he there was also a gash to a head which looked more like a mocal vehicle accident there were additional bruises and abrasions on Charlotte’s torso he also found mark Chara’s left armpit arms back and thighs he identified these as pattern injuries consistent with a belt the most extensive part was Chara’s arms and legs the doctor noted diffus contusion to those areas he also noted very severe swelling of all four of her extremities in both Chara’s arms and legs Dr horn
diagnosed RAB too liis which he explained is a long way of saying that the muscle has died and Fallen apart Bowsers I don’t think I’ve ever heard that before he also diagnosed compartment syndrome which occurs when the muscle swell so much that it cuts off its own blood supply wow I’ve never heard that before either he testified that compartment syndrome is typically seen in the victims of crushing trauma like motal vehicle accidents in fact he also said that in some earthquake areas where people have been crushed and they
had similar injuries but he believed it was not possible for the belt alone to have caused caused all these injuries a rather significant Force must have caused the injuries to her arms and legs he took tissue samples from her arms and legs and performed an iron stain test to try to determine the age of her bruises on one section from her right leg he found very rare microf fages and very rare staining for iron amongst a sea of red cells indicating fresh injury possibly over an older injury so this kid was just assaulted over and over
again you see her legs were so extensively injured he noted that the newer bruises could be marking older bruises ultimately charlott’s cause of death was determined to be multiple blunt force injuries and because of this both Sanders and Susan were charged with first deegree murder and four counts of child assault now in the trial the prosecution showed the Sanders committed this murder in the context of a specific domestic situation that came to head in the summer of 2009 specifically at the time of the murder Sanders was living in
cramped stressful conditions in his mother’s house when neither Chara nor Susan were welcome Sanders and Susan were chronically unemployed causing severe financial distress Susan had abdicated parenting responsibilities thrusting Sanders into the role of the sole responsible parent and Sanders was suffering from undiagnosed untreated PTSD Sanders however claimed claimed that there was evidence intrinsic to Chara’s murder showing that he had a propensity for violence he mentioned that while he was in the Marine Corps he
was investigated for sexual assault and there was also an incident between him and Susan where he assaulted her what he was trying to do was tell the judge hey look I’m predisposed to this I have a problem please help me now these investigations were referenced during the trial and a mitigation expert testified about Sanders’s PTSD this individual testified that their evaluation and diagnosis of Sanders were based largely on her reporting at one point during the examination defense Council asked whether Sanders had
advised him that while he was in California he was charged with an offense but it was learned during the trial that these charges of the assault with Susan and the sexual assault at the Marine Corps they were all dropped the domestic incident itself well what happened was Susan and Sanders get into an argument Sanders had an expensive remote control helicopter whatever they argued about Susan got pissed off and she threw it across the room because of this he assaulted her now in the trial there were further Witnesses including
an emergency room physician she told the jury that she remembered this case because it’s a very uncommon case she had seen a lot of horrible things as a trauma nurse but she had never seen anything like this she also testified that she kept a picture of charotte at her house house because it was something she will never forget Dr horn even told the jury that this was one of the worst child homicide cases he has ever dealt with in terms of the number of extent of injuries now following Dr Horn’s testimony Sanders moved for a mistrial
the core said certainly not Susan herself tried to claim that she was the victim of domestic issues at the hands of Sanders and this is why she didn’t stop any of this happening in testimony given by various Witnesses only one named Bianca who happened to be Susan’s cousin testified that she witnessed Sanders becoming physical towards her so to conclude on the story Sanders was eventually sentenced to death and is currently on death row Susan was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 35 years now it’s clear
to me that PTSD or whatever effects you have post Marine Corps Army whatever certainly played aart but they were unemployed they had no money they had no purpose and this child was just an inconvenience to them for them what was the point they can’t even take care of themselves how are they going to take care of this child I’m not justifying it I’m just contextualizing it both of these Muppets deserve to rot and now the tragic case of J Justice the dead body of 2-year-old Jada Justice was recovered from a swampy body of water near laort
Indiana on June the 24th 2009 investigators at the time said said Jada had been abducted inside a car her 18-year-old cousin who was babysitting the girl Angelica Castillo told police she left her behind as she went into a convenience store police were called to search an area of Western leaport County based on information they had received in relation to the missing girl a coroner was called to the scene early after police found a body in the fields Angelica Castillo said she left Jada in a car while she went to buy some milk at
a gas station and when she came back Jada was gone Jada’s Uncle Mike Valdez immediately sought the help of the community in searching for Jada missing person Flyers were printed and distributed throughout the area they described Jada as an africanamerican toddler standing at 2′ 2 in tall weighing around 3 5 she was last seen wearing an orange skirt and striped shirt since there is no evidence that an abduction had taken place an amber alert could not be issued now at the time of Jada’s death she was staying with her mother’s cousin
Angelica Castillo and Castillo’s boyfriend Timothy kic so let’s take a look at their relationship first in the summer of 2006 kic was dealing cocaine and Mar an when he began dating Castillo around Christmas 2006 Castillo introduced kic to her family including Melissa swin Melissa is the mother of Jada and the cousin of Angelica Castillo violated juvenile probation and went on the run with katek moving between residences in Lake and Porter counties and eventually moving in with swintek soon after he and castill moved in with
snch she learned that kic was dealing marijuana snch told them not to keep large quantities in her house and told them to smoke outside but she did accept marijuana from them did smoke marijuana in her own house and sometimes swin left her children with Castillo and kic Castillo told investigators that swintek was present when she and kic were bagging cocaine and Castile sold cocaine to an ex-boyfriend in front of snch after the couple moved into a trailer in val pariso snch continued to smoke marijuana with Kik and Castillo and
would bring her children to stay with them afterward kic and Castillo moved into the basement of a home in val pariso where there was a large amount of traffic from drug sales swin would drop off her children there for Angelica and Tim to watch over in the summer of 2008 kic and Castillo moved to a home in the 3900 block of Missouri Street Hobart where kic told police he bragged around the amount of money he was making from his drug dealing and showed swintek a large amount of cash kic provided swintek with prescription painkillers
and she continued to tell katek and Castillo to be careful in October of 2008 kic and Castillo arrived at spn’s home in Portage to take the children trick-or-treating and kic told police he conducted a drug deal outside of sn’s Home in the year of 2008 Timothy and Angelica would watch snch children for around three times a week now regarding the incident of Jada according to the testimony of Castillo and of katek Jada died on June the 13th 2009 while riding in kic’s vehicle or shortly thereafter the exact cause of
death was disputed at trial Jada was scheduled to stay with Angelica from June the 8th through June the 21st of 2009 the first few days of the victim’s visit were relatively remarkable on the morning of June the 12th Angelica and her boyfriend discovered that Jada had taken a packet of power ordered Hawaiian Punch mix and strawberries out of their refrigerator without asking for permission so Angelica decided to yell at Jada and spank her she then wrapped twine around the refrigerator so Jada could not open it which is stupid because kids taking
juice out the fridge is a normal thing they do why would you spanker you classless clown Angelica’s boyfriend who was present during nearly all of the events in question testified that the rest of the day was uneventful the next morning on June the 13th Angelica discovered that Jada had locked herself in her bedroom after unlocking the door Angelica found Jada had made a mess on the bedroom floor with syrup and powdered Hawaiian Punch packets Jada had found in the kitchen again Angelica yelled and spanked Jada and then cleaned
up the mess pushing Jada aside roughly as she cleaned later in the day around lunchtime Angelica gave Jada a prepackaged lunch to eat Jada who again was 2 years old did not eat much of it mostly playing with the food and throwing pieces of it to the dog this made Angelica angry and as punishment Angelica put Jada in a corner in Jada’s bedroom and then after cleaning the mess in the kitchen she sat on the couch with her boyfriend in the living room now while she’s in the living room Angelica can look in the bedroom she can see Jada
and Jada was no longer on the bed itself she was on the floor playing with her toys Angelica then returned to the bedroom spanked Jada and attempted to force her to stand upright by yanking her and holding her upright by her arms obviously something inside Angelica’s head just switched Angelica then went back to the living room and again sat on the couch approximately 5 minutes later Angelica again became irritated with Jada and returned to the bedroom the facts are not clear as to what exactly occurred during this confrontation but
Angelica’s boyfriend testified that he could hear angel speaking in an irritated tone to Jer when the door was closed and that at one point when the door was open he saw Angelica holding Jada by the hair poking her in the body and slapping her what a silly cow at one point during this confrontation Angelica brought the victim into the living room and with her boyfriend’s help spanked Jada several times on her bare bottom using a belt approx imately 1 and 1 half hours after this confrontation began Angelica came
out of the victim’s bedroom and told her boyfriend that Jada had hit her head on a table in the bedroom when she had slapped her the boyfriend testified that Jada sustained a small cut above her right eye that bled only a small amount that Angelica put a small bandage over it he also testified that he noticed more red marks on Jada’s face and that there were bruises on her buttocks at the time shortly after Jada hit her head Angelica’s boyfriend became frustrated by the ongoing confrontation between J and Angelica he ran into Jada’s bedroom
and knuckled her in the head pretty hard four to six times hoping that everything would stop after that you ran into the room and knuckled her coward after Angelica continued to hold Jada by the hair yanking and pushing her and eventually tied her to a chair with her boyfriend’s Bells she initially placed one belt around Jada’s waist and another around her neck but removed the belt from around the victim’s neck after her boyfriend told her to do so still frustrated with the situation Angelica’s boyfriend then went to the gas station
when he arrived home he heard Boom Boom Boom coming from Jade’s bedroom but he couldn’t see what was causing the noise because the bedroom door was shut he then made plans to go to Chicago because he wanted to purchase heroin approximately 30 minutes later Angelica and her boyfriend left for Chicago to retrieve the heroin the boyfriend testified while they were getting Jada ready to leave he noticed that Jada had a bruise in her face that she seemed out of it and that she was unable to hold her bottle while sitting in her car seat
Angelica wrapped Jada in a blanket to hide the marks in her body because they were going to take a friend with them to Chicago shortly after leaving the house while driving on Interstate 94 the boyfriend noticed that Jada’s head was leaning down towards her chest with her eyes closed he then jumped to the back seat realized she wasn’t breathing and attempted to administer CPR at that point Angelica and her boyfriend switch places and Angelica continued CPR while her boyfriend drove the truck back to their house once they arrived home they
stopped administering CPR and left Jada in the back seat of the truck covered with a top sometime later they set off for Chicago again without Jada the precise timing of the victim’s death is unclear but both Angelica and her boyfriend testified that she was dead when they returned from Chicago later that night during the arrest a statement Tim reportedly gave to authorities he said Angelica killed little Jada and two of them worked on a plan to dispose of her body first lighting it on fire and then burying it in a barrel filled with
concrete during questioning Angelica stuck with her original story citing that she was at a gas station and someone took Jada from her car her boyfriend however offered a different version of events and his information is what led authorities to her body in West laort County Tim described how Castillo and he had several lines of heroin before going to bed the night before Jade’s death the next morning he said he found Angelica spanking Jada and pulling her hair later that evening he real realized Jada was not breathing when
they realized that Jada wasn’t breathing Angelica began screaming and crying he says they then placed Jada’s body in garbage bags they tried to light her body on fire but there was an explosion that burned him in the face and arms they then put her body in a tub and filled it with concrete and later came up with the story about Jada being abducted it was clear that Angelica during questioning was under the influence of drugs she had attempted to hit one of the investigators and had ominous said God is taking care of Jada
God is watching over her police also questioned why Angelica would take Jada with her to run errands instead of leaving her with her boyfriend and couldn’t understand why she had driven past several other convenient stores before stopping at that particular one neither of the medical experts who testified to the cause of death contended that Jade’s death was caused by or could have been caused by the yelling Spang slapping poking shoving pushing or yanking of the body and hair inflicted by Angelica the doctor who
performed the autopsy testified that the sole cause of death was blunt force injuries of the head with a depressed skull fracture being the primary injury Angelica’s medical expert testified that the cause of death was a fixation caused by unconsciousness leading to an obstructed Airway or some other interference with the child’s breathing yet they could not conclude that any of Angelica’s actions yelling spanking slapping poking shoving pushing and yanking would make a person aware either in isolation or in the aggregate of a
high probability of death from blunt force injury of the head or asphixiation it doesn’t matter just don’t do it it’s not hard just don’t spank and shove the kid you [ __ ] the only injury to the victim caused by Angelica’s actions was identified as a potential cause of Jade’s death was the fact that the victim hit her head on a table after being slapped by the defendant the autopsy doctor testified that falling on the distinct edge of an object could cause a blunt force head injury sufficient to have killed Jada in this
case they claimed there is no evidence however that Angelica intentionally un knowingly caused the victim to hit her head on the table the evidence only suggested that the incident itself was an accident the speculative connection between the slap and the victim striking her head on the table is not substantial evidence of probative value proving that in administering such slap Angelica should have been aware of a high probability of resulting death well du Angelica’s boyfriend Timothy admitted to abusing the victim on the day of her
death saying that he knuckled the victim in the head pretty hard 47 times 47 times what so if you take all this into consideration it was said that the jury could reasonably have concluded that the boyfriend was aware of a high probability ility that punching a child in the head could take the child’s life so given all of this the jury now thought well there’s a high probability that Tom knew if I hit the kid this hard maybe their life will be taken the evidence most favorable to a conviction based on a complice liability
demonstrated that Angelica was present when her boyfriend the victim in the head that she did not object to his actions and that she continued to associate with him in an amicable manner after the incident more importantly Angelica attempted to conceal the victim’s injuries in preparation for the trip to Chicago and failed to assist on or seek professional medical treatment for the victim at any time additionally after the victim’s death Angelica assisted her boyfriend in disposing of the child’s body and staged a fake
abduction at a nearby gas station in an attempt to provide a cover story to explain J’s disappearance now the prosecu tion argued that the evidence showed that over the course of at least 5 hours Castillo repeatedly beat the 2-year-old victim in some way shape over home the evidence further showed that Castillo told her boyfriend that the victim hit her head on a table after Castillo SLA the victim the prosecution argued the likely cause of death to the victim was blunt force trauma to the Head they felt it was reasonable for the
jury to infer that Castillo either was aware that her slapping the victim in close proximity to the table could easily result in the victim hitting their head on the table or castillia was lying when she stated it was an accident that the victim hit her head on the table in other words Angelica should have known the consequences of her actions furthermore Castillo’s boyfriend testified that after the table incident there was another incident that involved Castillo and Jada in Jada’s bedroom Angelica Castillo was eventually
convicted of murder two counts of neglect of a dependent battery and false informing in connection with the death of Jada Justice Castillo was convicted after a Lake Superior Court jury deliberated about 2 hours on September the 8th 2010 Angelica was sentenced to life in prison as for Timothy he took a plead deal and he was sentenced to 50 years so now you may ask the question okay this is a tragic story but where is Melissa the mother of Jada well Castillo and Jade’s mother are cousins as I mentioned and over the years the
families leaned on each other for help with child care the families were together for holidays and birthdays Melissa left the Lake County Courthouse after saying what’s been on her mind for over a year that this divided her family and it was in mourning she destroyed my family Melissa said in court Melissa spoke directly to Angelica she said I’ve lost so much my kids have lost so much my baby never had a chance at life she was was only two well Melissa why’ you leave your baby with these people in the first place and during the trial
Angelica made several outbursts during the sentencing hearing until the judge threatened to duct tape her mouth shut but Castillo was eventually allowed to comment Angelica said I have to take responsibility for certain things in my life who is anybody to judge nobody is perfect Melissa said she has no conscience she doesn’t care and I don’t know where that came from or why that is but it’s the monster that got taken out on my daughter and now we all see her for who she is and I just wish I knew before what she was really like Melissa
went on to say she got what she deserved I hope that in time she can get a conscience and admit what she did Castillo’s defense attorneys argued that Castillo had been sexually abused as a child and had a violent childhood but her past seemed to have little influence over the jury or judge maybe it was all the drugs finally Angelica actually appealed her sentence and the Indiana Supreme Court overturned the life sentence of Angelica Castillo the state’s highest court found that the life without that parole sentence
imposed in 2010 for Castillo was inappropriate given her role in the crime and that the prosecutor engaged in misconduct during closing arguments so the court changed her sentence from life to 65 years which to me is basically the same thing Castillo’s court appointed attorney at the time said I am pleased that the Supreme Court agreed with both of the arguments I presented the court issued a very well reasoned and thoughtful opinion in a difficult case his oral argument before The Supreme Court he said he argued it was difficult
to justify a life sentence for his client when the more culpable codefendant would likely be serving 10 to 15 years the court found that the facts of the case it did not support Castillo’s conviction for murder as a principal player but only as an accomplice in light of evidence that she slapped po yank the child by the arms in hair and spanked her to be convicted of murder as the principal the jury must find that the defendant knowingly or intentionally killed another person I don’t know if a life sentence is correct
for this I know 65 years sounds more than reasonable so she may have got 10 15 years chalked off or whatever it is but that [ __ ] better served every day of the 65 years now as for Jade’s funeral around 300 people packed into the Calvary Tabernacle Church of Griffith to pay the final respects to the little girl her father Clarence said that his daughter had provided 2 years of nothing but love adding she gave me the strength to start loving again her mother Melissa said I’m glad a lot of people came and showed respect now now
in a shocking twist Melissa was also taken to court for neglect the court argued while Melissa unfortunately your daughter is now gone but you are culpable cuz why in the true red [ __ ] of YouTube videos did you leave your children with these people in the first place you should have known better you have a responsibility you let your children down unfortunately I couldn’t find any information on what happened in this court case if you guys want to Google it maybe put it in the comment section let me know did Melissa serve any time was
she uh put on probation or anything I don’t know but I agree with everything that happened in this case number one both of them should spend their the rest of their life in prison but if they got senten to 50 60 years more than adequate if you ask me Melissa has a lot to answer for how dare you leave your children for days on end with two drug addicts you have a responsibility or you had a responsibility to Jada and you let her down May the full force of the law be slapped right on your fat forehead and now the third and final case this is
the story of Judy N Friends today’s story is of the deaths of Lisa milikin and Janice K Chatman Judy n was sentenced in Alabama’s electric chair in 19 83 and at the age of 18 was the youngest woman ever to be so sentenced wow the murder for which he was tried and convicted was protracted and cruel but Judy was a poor common girl from The Deep South a product of both a troubled home and the juvenile justice system so was the victim for whose Murder She was convicted 13-year-old Lisa and milikan you see Lisa’s life was taken in Decalb
County Alabama no crew from Court TV or the law Network covered this trial because they didn’t exist back then the Neely trial was local news mainly good for a lot of Gossip in Fort pain and some coverage in the bigger Alabama papers had the location of Lisa Milan’s body not being brought to the attention of decal County authorities she may have remained undiscovered for years it was an 80t drop from the precipice to the floor of a little River Canyon where Lisa’s body had landed the area was densely wooded and often used
as a garbage dump by locals Lisa was last seen in Rome in the state of Georgia and the search for her was focused there some 35 Mi away in fact the Rome police and a Rome radio station Had Each received a phone call revealing the location of the body and the Rome police had been to the area indicated in the calls but had found nothing on the evening of September the 29th 1982 A call came into the decal County sheriff’s office in Fort Payne the then unidentified caller gave detailed directions to the location of a young
girl’s body and reiterate Judy called the police did not reveal who she was and told the police hey there’s a body I know somewhere at Night by The Beam of a flashlight Deputy James Mays and other lawmen from around the county found Lisa milikin she had been shot and lay crumpled over a Fallen Tree she was brought out of the canyon by rope the following day and investigators found three used syringes among the debris into which she had fallen hanging from a branch between the precipice and the canyon floor they
found a pair of women’s blue jeans that appeared Blood Stained now because the crime scene contained lots of garbage from previous visitors authorities weren’t certain these items were relevant to their case but delivered them to the Alabama Department of forensic science in Huntsville in the hopes of a lead so the question remained what happened to this young girl I’m about to tell you so if you do end up liking this video please subscribe also follow me on Instagram links are in the description though Lisa was found in
decal County investigators quickly decided that since she had disappeared from Rome the case should be worked from there the police in Rome had been investigating Lisa’s disappearance for several days ever since she had gone missing from the River Bend Mall on September the 25th Lisa had been part of a group of girls from the Ethel hops home in Cedar Town Georgia who had gone on the supervised outing to the mall the Hops home was a facility for troubled girls and it was initially hoped that Lisa had simply run away it’s because
she had a history of such Behavior but as days passed and Lisa did not return to any of her usual haunts hope faded and while it was tragic it didn’t come as a shock that she was found dead Lisa was from Lafayette Georgia and had been removed from her parents’ home as had her three siblings following allegations of sexual abuse she was sexually precocious and unpopular with the other girls in the various facilities where she found herself she had once the girl in the stomach hard enough to induce a miscarriage so the call to the Rome
Police Department had been taped and while playing it for Mike Jones of the Walker County Department of Family and Children Services detective Keen got an important bit of information the caller said y’all looking for Lisa an milikin on run from the harpst home a more dramatic scene took place when detective ke played the tape for 13-year-old Debbie Smith a local girl who had been approached and offered a ride by a woman in a brown car on October the 4th two employees of Rome’s Youth Development CER better known as YDC Linda Adair and
Ken dly had had incidents at their homes on successive nights someone shot into D’s house on September the 11th and a Molotov cocktail was tossed into a de driveway on September the 12th no one was injured though while the police were investigating the scene at ad’s home she received a phone call from an anonymous female who referred to the shooting at D’s house and the firebombing and claimed you both will die before the night is over so who is this individual we got a random Woman calling the police telling them there a body
somewhere a house has been firebombed and is’s also a shooting what is going on detective ke then made a connection you see the Youth Development Center was a juvenile facility Mike Jones of Walker County had told him the caller on the Mican tape probably had a juvenile record now ke had something to pursue remembering the previous abductors had said the cuse B out of state license plates so ke asked juvenile officer Elaine snow for a list of all the girls who had been placed in the YDC from out of state she gave him a list of 25 names
so having gone through all the paperwork and all the names he found someone that fit the bill Judith and N he assemble pictures for a photo lineup Debbie Smith recognized NE immediately and gave ke the positive ID he needed he started searching for NE he didn’t have to search along you see on oo oober the 9th Judy n had been arrested at a motel in murrey’s buror Tennessee for passing bad checks her husband Alvin was arrested a few days later on October the 14th Keen got the word that his suspects were in custody lawmen from Rome and decal
County hurried to Murphy’s borrow if they expected their suspects to be guarded and evasive with their answers they were mightily surprised Alvin n though he asked for and got a lawyer waved his right to remain silent and gave a lengthy detailed statement that implicated Judy as the criminal mastermind and sexual deviant of the pair he explained that it was Judy who took the life of Milan and Chatman Alvin said she’s a dangerous person and that he feared her he drew a map indicating the location of of chatman’s body and
swore that Judy had compelled his participation in any sexual abuse of milikan and Chatman while keen’s question Alvin Judy was being interviewed down the hall she repeatedly stated that she didn’t need a lawyer and answered any and all questions calmly and in detail she admitted to the fire bombing at Linda adir and the shooting at Ken doues where she said the reason why is because when Judy was in the YDC Adair forced her to participate in sexual activities or in particular to have sex with douly and that she had
been part of a prostitution ring operating out of the facility then chillingly she told of the abductions of milikin and Chapman and what they endured in the days before their deaths she would continue her confession and add even more details after she was transported to for pain and formerly charged with milikan murder so Judy explained that they were in the Riverbend Mall in the city of Rome she sees milikan from afar walks up to her in a video arcade area of the mall and just strikes a conversation Lisa had
gone with her willingly she said because she didn’t want to return to the harps home that night they had driven around for hours with Judy’s children in the back seat finally checking into a motel yes she had her own children and with her children in the car she was taking her future victim with her the next few days followed a similar pattern she said with aimless driving during the day and nights spent in motels where Lisa slept on the floor and cuffed to the bed frame Judy had been afraid she said that upon
her release Lisa would tell authorities where she’d been implicating Judy and that Lisa would be placed back in the YDC according to Judy it was much better for Lisa to die than for her to go to the police and tell her while this woman kidnapped me handcuffed me to the bed and wouldn’t let me go Judy drove Lisa to Rocky Glade a secluded area in decal County at the edge of Little River Canyon as the children slept in the car Judy walked Lisa over to a tree and told her to lie down she said I told her I was going to give her a shot to pull her
to sleep so I could leave and she wouldn’t know where I was going she then injected Liquid Drano into her neck she had heard that this was a quick undetectable way to kill but it didn’t seem to be working she administered another injection to the other side of Lisa’s neck this time of liquid plumber Lisa was still conscious more injections followed to each of Lisa’s arms and each of her buttcks Judy waited half an hour Lisa was in pain with still conscious so Judy had her step to the edge of the canyon and turn away Lisa begged to be
taken back to the harps home and as he faced the expanse of the canyon pleading for her life Judy shot her in the back Lisa fell backwards instead of into the canyon so Judy had to push her over the edge getting blood on her jeans in the process Judy changed her jeans then threw the bloody pear and the ringes into the canyon she drove away toward Fort pay her children were asleep in the back seat as Judy confessed authorities went looking for Janice Chapman her body was found where Alvin said it would be off a back road in rural Chattanooga
County Georgia meanwhile a warrant had been executed at the Murphy’s borrow home of Barbara Adams she was Judy’s mother the nees had been staying there prior to their arrests and the evidence of their crimes was abundant throughout the house among other items the police recovered handcuffs radios and several guns and knives now regarding the trial itself Bob French had his work cut out for him he had not wanted to serve as Judy’s court appointed defense and after the first meeting he came away disliking her intensely still he would do his best
as Judy was under 21 he began by seeking youthful offender status for her the judge Randall Cole denied this motion French then asked the psychological tests to be administered to determine Judy’s Fitness for trial the tests were done in January 1983 and Judy was found fit for trial with Superior intelligence and no tendency toward delusion or harming herself the trial was scheduled to begin on March the 7th 1983 I wasn’t even born then in the meantime French set about making Judy more presentable she had come into
custody decidedly unkempt and pregnant with her third child and French knew he needed to get her cleaned up before she went in front of the jury her baby a boy was born while she waited for her court date she had dental work done by Dr Steven Brewer and French bought her several outfits at Black’s department store the nicest lady’s clothing store in the county so she’d have something to wear during the trial though prosecutor Richard igu noticed French Was preparing Judy for her court appearance he did not have a clue as to what her defense would
be until the first day of the trial and imagine that she’s pregnant and she’s probably going to go to jail for the rest of her life what’s going to happen to that baby wow it was evident from the sort of questions French asked prospective jurors that he was going to try and portray Judy as a victim a victim of her husband Alvin Neely under whose irresistible control she had been during the crime among the first Witnesses called by the prosecution were two young women and a teenage girl who had been apparently Judy’s prospective
victim Debbie Smith identified Judy as the woman who had tried to pick her up as she walked home from school on October the 4th 1982 Susan Clon identified Judy as the woman who had approached her and asked if she was alone at Aladdin’s Castle in Rome’s riverbed mall on September the 25th the day Lisa disappeared so it seemed that she was looking for any girl she asked one couldn’t get her so she took Lisa Diane Bobo identified Judy as the woman who had tried to get her to go for a ride on the afternoon on October
the 3rd none of these Witnesses saw Alvin in the vicinity when she was approached and none thought Judy appeared beaten or abused the next witness John Hancock told the story of his abduction just as he had told it before and igu tried to emphasize the fact that it was Judy who had done the abducting and who had eventually shot him French though got Hancock to admit that although Judy had seemed in control it was actually Alvin who had given her directions throughout the abduction Alvin had decided where they would drive
and where they would meet and when Judy seemed to Dole before shooting Hancock Alan had yelled for her to hurry he was in charge of that evening’s transactions French asked and hanock quietly answered yes sir just to be clear John hanock was the boyfriend of Chatman they attacked them both they shot John he survived but they took Chatman back to their place then the abuse occurred the First Defense witness French called was Joe Anne Browning Alvin ne’s first wife she had been married to Alvin for 3 years in
the mid-70s and was Mother to three of his children Browning testified that he abused her throughout her marriage even when she was pregnant and that he had drugged and tried to sexually assault her teenage sister Dirty Bastard she said that she tried to leave several times but Alvin had threatened the children she only escaped him because he had suddenly become interested in Judy igu damaged her credibility though by establishing that she was definitely a bigamist and probably a liar as well this is because she got married to
another man before her divorce with Alvin was finalized though she claimed that Alvin had abused her around 800 times times Browning had never suffered a broken bone and though she’d been pregnant for 27 months of her 3-year marriage none of her children were damaged by the abuse and all three pregnancies concluded normally she left the witness stand angry and in tears the following afternoon French called Judy to the stand immediately her appearance and demeanor clashed with his portrayal of her as a victim she had cleaned up
nicely was no longer pregnant and at 5 for1 she cut a rather imposing figure she bantered and laughed easily at the defense table and had one mannerism that was so alarming French felt a need to explain it to the jury he asked her when you afraid or nervous how do you handle it and she replied by saying I smile a lot which is kind of creepy if you ask me she was smiling even as she said it and she continued to smile as French led her through questions about her childhood and her early relationship ship with Alvin she had met when Judy
was 15 and he had been an Ardent and romantic Suitor she left her unstable at home willingly but Alvin’s sexual advances were always crude and selfish and increasingly violent she said and from the start she performed as his servant she claimed she bathed him and dried him and combed his hair and when he had jobs at convenience stores it was she who would do the stocking and sweeping and mopping she cooked for him and tied his shoes she said and when she did any of her task wrong he abused her he taught her robbery and forgery he was
insanely jealous even though Judy said she’d always been faithful to him the stories about the abuse she’ supposedly received at the YDC were of Alvin’s making not hers but these story at the YDC never happened and if we go back to Mican going back to their home being abused sexually then thrown off the canyon what they did to Chapman and now this idea that essentially Alvin wanted her to worship him to bathe him to cook for him both of these are just sick individuals Judy went into excruciating detail about various assaults and her
role as victim was gradually becoming more believable on the L of Judy’s 4 days of testimony French began asking questions about Lisa Milan’s abduction and murder Alvin wanted a virgin dudy said so she had procured him one she delivered Lisa to him for his use and at his instruction took part in the abuse she witnessed Alvin’s many sexual assaults on Lisa as did her children who were with them the whole time Alvin had chosen the spot for Lisa’s death and had been at Judy’s side issuing orders the whole time after Lisa
was dead Judy claimed that Alvin masturbated ew he had ordered her to make the calls to the Roman Fort pain police and she had done everything he said because she was afraid of him she admitted to the abduction and murder of Jan Chapman imputing these to her fear of Alvin as well she had picked up another girl in Murphy’s Burrow for Alvin’s use but just then she was arrested Richard igu didn’t believe any of Judy’s testimony he had seen her when she was first brought to Fort pain and then she had been hard and cold though
it was incredible that someone only 18 years old could be so indifferent and depraved igu thought Judy definitely was he quickly tried to counter French methodically established defense Judy claimed to have been abused countless times but had only suffered two broken fingers and a slightly chipped tooth and she had been acting on her own she admitted during the shooting of Janice Chapman the first shot had been on Alvin’s orders but the other two were because Chapman was screaming and Judy was afraid someone would hear he didn’t
tell you to shoot her two more times in the chest just to shut her up did he igu asked no sir Judy answered igu then produced a series of photographs featuring Alvin and Judy posing merrily with various guns and family members in each Judy was smiling not meekly but apparently quite happily Alvin had arranged all the pictures Judy said and had ordered her to smile like that finally igu took Judy through the events that took place at the edge of little Rivia Canyon the previous September for every why there was an answer because Al
told me to Judy claimed the only things she did on her own were eat and go to the bathroom that absolutely everything else about her life had been dictated by her husband igle called Dr Alexander salillas of the Alabama Department of Mental Health as a rebuttal witness and he testified that Judy had known the difference between right and wrong at the time of her crime and he said that she made the conscious decision to kill fren tried to get the doctor to say that according to the established clinical definition Judy had been brainwashed but
he said this this did not happen throughout a convoluted and strenuous line of questioning he maintained that Judy retained her free will his testimony did great damage to Judy’s defense most remarkably when French asked him if the bruises Judy had in one of the pictures were consistent with assault with a baseball bat not necessarily he said a pinch to the arm would give you the same result French was flber in your opinion he said this could be caused by twisting skin or pinching certainly said the doctor so
the wounds were not as bad as they claimed he was the last witness to be called Judith and N was found guilty of murder and abduction that afternoon the prosecution and defense delivered arguments in front of the jury in the sentencing hearing late that night the jury delivered its recommendation to judge Cole by a tent to vote they recommended that Judy be sentenced to life in prison in Alabama however a jury’s recommendation in a capital case is not the final word on the matter it serves only to inform the judge of the
jury’s opinion the final decision is with the judge themselves after a brief sentencing hearing on April the 18th 1983 judge Cole sentenced Judy to die in Alabama’s electric chair she was 18 years old anxious to avoid another death sentence Judy pled guilty to kidnapping in the Chapman Hancock case and agreed to testify against Alvin Alvin afraid of Judy’s testimony plad guilty to kidnapping with bodily harm and intent to murder he was sentenced to two life terms over the years Judy’s case wound its way through the appeal process and
on January the 15th 1999 the sentence was commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole and the only way to describe these two individuals they just a bunch of morons comment tell me what you think
