Woman Who Stabbed Sister To Death With Steak Knife Gets Life In Prison This story is sad and crazy. Via National Enquirer: After she admitted to stabbing her sister to death in the shower with a steak knife a Georgia woman was handed life imprisonment. Chakaya Brittney Folborg, 24, pleaded guilty in court to the murder of her adopted sister, Kourtney Chanel Dyches, in their Mableton home on Feb. 20, 2012, law enforcement said. Both sisters were 21 years old at the time and had been squabbling. Officer Kim Isaza told the jury that they had not been living in the same house until approximately a month before the fatal slaying. Family members could hear the victim’s screams piercing the closed bathroom door the night of the murder. “This victim was a vibrant young lady with the rest of her life ahead of her,” Sherwin Figueroa, assistant district attorney, said. “The defendant, without any provocation, took a knife from the kitchen some two hours before the killing and waited until the victim was in the shower before viciously stabbing her at least six times.” Dyches, who was had been adopted as an infant, died before cops could get to the crime scene, responding police officers said. Folborg, will be eligible for parole after serving 30 years behind bars. She has been imprisoned since her arrest. Damn R.I.P. to her sister. Cobb County Jail
So sad. Man Kills Girlfriend Then Himself In Murder Suicide How tragic that she was shot by the man who was supposed to love and cherish her. According to KMBC: Friends and loved ones of a North Kansas City couple killed in a murder-suicide remember their loved ones. Jason Crabtree, 33, was a second-grade teacher at Gracemor Elementary School. A representative from the district said he was loved and admired by students and staff alike. Police said Crabtree shot his girlfriend, Jamie Newkirk, 27, before taking his own life. Their bodies were found in a crashed SUV near College Boulevard and Mastin Avenue in Overland Park, Kan., early Sunday. Newkirk was a manager at Nordstrom at Oak Park Mall and attended college at Kansas State with dreams of a career in fashion. Overland Park police said they’re still trying to sort out what may have led Crabtree to take the actions he did. “He did seem, you know, very well alert to the children, you know, and paid attention to their needs and everything that was going on,” said Chris Toner, a parent of a student at Gracemor Elementary School. “For things to get to that point, somebody, somewhere in his life must have known that something was wrong.” Gracemor Elementary is on spring break this week. Counselors will be available for students and staff when the school reopens on Monday. What kind of issues could make a man go to such extreme measures?!?! Shutterstock
Listeners of “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” called in to give their opinions bout the mistrial in the murder case of Jordan Davis. One caller said Jordan…
Miranda Barbour, a 19-year-old Pennsylvania girl, admits to not only killing a guy who hired her for sex on Craigslist, but a bunch of other people as well. A BUNCH of other people. “When I hit 22, I stopped counting,” she says. Barbour is currently in a Pennsylvania jail awaiting trial for the murder of Troy LaFerrara, who she allegedly stabbed 20 times during a Craigslist encounter. Craigslist Killer Miranda Barbour: I Murdered 22 People! The reason? She tested him and said she was only 16, and he responded that he’d still have sex with her. A molestation victim, Barbour lost it on him . Gruesome, but not nearly as shocking as when Barbour said in a jailhouse interview over the weekend that she’s been killing people since she was 13. Like Dexter , she insists she only dispatches of society’s miscreants, claiming that “I did this to people who did bad things and didn’t deserve to be here anymore.” Barbour also says her first killing coincided with her joining a satanic cult. That group she joined in Alaska. It’s unclear if her husband was also a member, but her spouse of three weeks allegedly played a part in the LeFerrara slaying. Miranda matter-of-factly says the two of them killed the perv in their car. Finally, Barbour says she has no remorse about that or anything else, and actually does not yearn to be sprung from jail … not that she has any chance to be. She wants to stay put because if she got out, “I would do this again.” Hey, at least this Craigslist Killer knows who and what she is …
Michael Dunn was found guilty on four charges, including three for attempted second-degree murder, in connection with a shooting involving an SUV full of teens. Dunn allegedly got into an argument with them over loud music. He is looking at decades in prison, and yet there was no verdict on the first-degree murder charge related to the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Michael Dunn Guilty of Attempted Murder Dunn’s lawyer, Cory Strolla, told reporters on Saturday that his client was “in disbelief … even as he sat next to me, he asked, how is this happening.” “It has not set in. I don’t think it will set in anytime soon.” The incomplete finale to this emotional, hot-button trial, largely because of the fact that Dunn is white and the teens who were shot at, including Davis, are black. For many, the Florida case echoed George Zimmerman ‘s trial for the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin about 120 miles down the road in Sanford. While the state’s controversial Stand Your Ground law wasn’t used by Dunn (or Zimmerman), his lawyers similarly argued that he fired in self-defense. Given the partially hung jury, State Attorney Angela Corey said prosecutors would press for a new trial in Duval County, Fla., on the murder charge. “Justice for Jordan Davis is as important as it is for any victim,” said Corey, whose office also famously handled the Zimmerman case in 2012-13. Dunn is not a free man , unlike Zimmerman. Nor may he ever be. Prosecutor Erin Wolfson explained on Saturday night that each attempted second-degree murder conviction carries a minimum sentence of at least 20 years. “You are looking at basically at life in prison,” Strolla said, even as he vowed to challenge the convictions. “At 47, that’s a life sentence regardless of count one.” The decision to convict on these counts, and not on murder, didn’t come easily for a jury that had deliberated for about 30 hours since getting the case. Judge Russell Healey said earlier that the jury of four white women, two black women, four white men, an Asian woman and a Hispanic man was “struggling, obviously.” “But it’s not for want of trying to reconcile all of this,” he said. “I think we’ve got some analytical people trying to do just that – trying to analyze this from every possible angle.” The lack of a murder conviction upset some, including protesters who marched outside the Jacksonville courthouse calling for Corey to lose her job. “The people united will never be defeated,” they also chanted. Yet Davis’ mother, Lucia McBath, didn’t express any anger when she addressed reporters last night. Her family, she said, is “so very happy to have just a little bit of closure.” “It’s sad for Mr. Dunn that he will live the rest of his life in that sense of torment, and I will pray for him,” McBath said. “And I’ve asked my family to pray for him.” It was back on November 23, 2012, when Michael Dunn pulled into a gas station in Jacksonville, parking next to a red Dodge Durango full of teenagers. The teens pulled in for gum and cigarettes; Dunn ad just left his son’s wedding with his fiancee, who’d gone inside the convenience store for wine and chips. Dunn didn’t like the loud music – “rap crap,” as he called it – coming from the teens’ SUV. He asked them to turn it down, and what came next depends on whom you ask. Dunn says Davis threatened him, and he decided to take matters into his own hands upon seeing what he thought was the barrel of a gun sticking out of the Durango. But prosecutors asserted that it was Dunn who lost control, firing three volleys of shots – 10 bullets total – at the SUV because of the music he didn’t like. Prosecutors challenged specifically what he did after the altercation: He left the gas station and drove 40 miles away to a bed and breakfast in St. Augustine. There, Dunn walked his dog, ordered a pizza, then drank rum and cola, “stunned and horrified, (shocked how) things escalated the way they did over a common courtesy.” After learning almost six hours later that he had killed Davis, Dunn testified that he became “crazy with grief,” experiencing stomach problems for hours before napping. “My intent was to stop the attack, not necessarily end a life,” he testified. Yet his fiancee, Rhonda Rouer, testified that Dunn never mentioned any weapon to her – be it a shotgun, a stick, a barrel or a lead pipe – unlike what Dunn said. In fact, police found a basketball, basketball shoes, clothing, a camera tripod and cups inside the teenagers’ Durango, but no evidence of any firearm. Dunn himself never called police, either. The first contacts he had with them were at his home in Satellite Beach, 130 miles south of St. Augustine, as he was being apprehended in the case. Arguing that he wasn’t in a rational state of mind, Dunn admitted, “It makes sense that I should have (contacted authorities). We didn’t. I can’t tell you why.”
Michael Dunn was found guilty on four charges, including three for attempted second-degree murder, in connection with a shooting involving an SUV full of teens. Dunn allegedly got into an argument with them over loud music. He is looking at decades in prison, and yet there was no verdict on the first-degree murder charge related to the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Michael Dunn Guilty of Attempted Murder Dunn’s lawyer, Cory Strolla, told reporters on Saturday that his client was “in disbelief … even as he sat next to me, he asked, how is this happening.” “It has not set in. I don’t think it will set in anytime soon.” The incomplete finale to this emotional, hot-button trial, largely because of the fact that Dunn is white and the teens who were shot at, including Davis, are black. For many, the Florida case echoed George Zimmerman ‘s trial for the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin about 120 miles down the road in Sanford. While the state’s controversial Stand Your Ground law wasn’t used by Dunn (or Zimmerman), his lawyers similarly argued that he fired in self-defense. Given the partially hung jury, State Attorney Angela Corey said prosecutors would press for a new trial in Duval County, Fla., on the murder charge. “Justice for Jordan Davis is as important as it is for any victim,” said Corey, whose office also famously handled the Zimmerman case in 2012-13. Dunn is not a free man , unlike Zimmerman. Nor may he ever be. Prosecutor Erin Wolfson explained on Saturday night that each attempted second-degree murder conviction carries a minimum sentence of at least 20 years. “You are looking at basically at life in prison,” Strolla said, even as he vowed to challenge the convictions. “At 47, that’s a life sentence regardless of count one.” The decision to convict on these counts, and not on murder, didn’t come easily for a jury that had deliberated for about 30 hours since getting the case. Judge Russell Healey said earlier that the jury of four white women, two black women, four white men, an Asian woman and a Hispanic man was “struggling, obviously.” “But it’s not for want of trying to reconcile all of this,” he said. “I think we’ve got some analytical people trying to do just that – trying to analyze this from every possible angle.” The lack of a murder conviction upset some, including protesters who marched outside the Jacksonville courthouse calling for Corey to lose her job. “The people united will never be defeated,” they also chanted. Yet Davis’ mother, Lucia McBath, didn’t express any anger when she addressed reporters last night. Her family, she said, is “so very happy to have just a little bit of closure.” “It’s sad for Mr. Dunn that he will live the rest of his life in that sense of torment, and I will pray for him,” McBath said. “And I’ve asked my family to pray for him.” It was back on November 23, 2012, when Michael Dunn pulled into a gas station in Jacksonville, parking next to a red Dodge Durango full of teenagers. The teens pulled in for gum and cigarettes; Dunn ad just left his son’s wedding with his fiancee, who’d gone inside the convenience store for wine and chips. Dunn didn’t like the loud music – “rap crap,” as he called it – coming from the teens’ SUV. He asked them to turn it down, and what came next depends on whom you ask. Dunn says Davis threatened him, and he decided to take matters into his own hands upon seeing what he thought was the barrel of a gun sticking out of the Durango. But prosecutors asserted that it was Dunn who lost control, firing three volleys of shots – 10 bullets total – at the SUV because of the music he didn’t like. Prosecutors challenged specifically what he did after the altercation: He left the gas station and drove 40 miles away to a bed and breakfast in St. Augustine. There, Dunn walked his dog, ordered a pizza, then drank rum and cola, “stunned and horrified, (shocked how) things escalated the way they did over a common courtesy.” After learning almost six hours later that he had killed Davis, Dunn testified that he became “crazy with grief,” experiencing stomach problems for hours before napping. “My intent was to stop the attack, not necessarily end a life,” he testified. Yet his fiancee, Rhonda Rouer, testified that Dunn never mentioned any weapon to her – be it a shotgun, a stick, a barrel or a lead pipe – unlike what Dunn said. In fact, police found a basketball, basketball shoes, clothing, a camera tripod and cups inside the teenagers’ Durango, but no evidence of any firearm. Dunn himself never called police, either. The first contacts he had with them were at his home in Satellite Beach, 130 miles south of St. Augustine, as he was being apprehended in the case. Arguing that he wasn’t in a rational state of mind, Dunn admitted, “It makes sense that I should have (contacted authorities). We didn’t. I can’t tell you why.”
For Oscar Pistorius, the beloved athlete who went from inspiration to murder suspect, Valentine’s Day 2014 marks the one-year anniversary of his girlfriend’s death. The South African, a double amputee who became a global sensation at the 2012 London Olympics, has been charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp. The 27-year-old wrote Friday in a statement: “No words can adequately capture my feelings about the devastating accident that has caused such heartache for everyone who truly loved – and continues to love Reeva.” “The loss of Reeva and the complete trauma of that day … the pain and sadness, especially for Reeva’s parents, family and friends, consumes me with sorrow. ” “I will carry with me for the rest of my life.” Oscar Pistorius will stand trial on March 3. The track star faces the charge of premeditated murder , which carries a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison. Pistorius repeatedly denied the allegation, claiming he mistook Reeva Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot her four times through a locked bathroom door. A judge will deliver a verdict in the case, as there is no trial by jury in South Africa. Pistorius, who is out on bail, also faces charges of firing a gun in a public space.
