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The judge said, "You can act as stoic as you like, like you don't care, but you care," the judge said. "Everybody that's about to get locked up and get boxed up for the rest of their life, they care." The inmate responded, "Nah, I'm good.”

Nicholas Fiebka, NewYork inmate 24B3417, born 2003, incarceration intake August 2024 at age 21, sentenced to life without parole

Murder, Criminal possession of a weapon, Criminal intent

In August 2024, a Schenectady New York man found guilty the prior June of murdering his mother and her longtime boyfriend in November of 2022 was sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole Friday.

Nicholas Fiebka, 21, received the maximum sentence for his crimes, after appearing before the Judge in Schenectady County Court. The courtroom was nearly full with loved ones of the victims, Alesia Wadsworth and William "Bill" Horwedel.

The murders in this case were not just some random act of violence. These weren't random victims. This wasn't the result of someone snapping," the Schenectady County Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney said in court. "These murders were a continuation and escalation of [Fiebka's] threatening behavior toward his mother and Bill for years before this occurred."

Wadsworth -- 59 at the time of the murder -- and Horwedel -- 61 at the time -- were gunned down in November 2022, in their Princetown home. A doorbell camera captured the moments a masked man charged into the residence, moments before prosecutors said he fired 44 times in 24 second, killing the pair. During the investigation, officers concluded that the masked man was Fiebka, who was 19 years old at the time, after cell phone records reportedly placed him in the same location and time of the murder while connecting to the home's Wifi.

At the time, Fiebka did not live with Wadsworth or Horwedel. His mother obtained an order of protection against him in Dec. 2021, which remained in effect at the time of the murder. Prosecutors described how, the night she was killed, Fiebka's mother had still left food out on the counter for him to eat.

"He went from a kid with behavioral issues to a destructive, violent man," the DA said.

She went on to describe instances in which Fiebka allegedly terrorized his mother by going into her bedroom, dressed in all black, with a hammer and standing over her, and how Fiebka previously tortured animals and set fires in his mother's home.

In response, Fiebka's defense attorney, argued that Fiebka's mental health issues caused him to do something horrific that he might not otherwise have done, and that he should receive treatment as part of his sentence, and perhaps be released in a few decades if he showed growth. But the Judge did not relent.

"You know what you got coming, or you think you know what you got coming," the judge said to Fiebka, after attorneys had shared their statements. "For you, angry, resentful, bully who murders parents with [an] AK-47, there's no support group waiting for you in DOCCS [New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision], let me tell you that."

Before the judge made his decision, Fiebka, whose attorney said he did not intend to speak, interjected and said that he did want to make a statement after all. "I'm a servant of God, and they can paint whatever picture they want, but God knows who I really am in my heart, and how pure it is," Fiebka said.

At the end of the court appearance, Fiebka was given the maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for both of his first-degree murder charges, to be served consecutively; 15 years, plus a 5-year term of post-release supervision for each of the two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree in against him; 7 years of state incarceration, plus a 3-year term of post-release supervision for the two criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree charges against him; and additional years behind bars for other charges in connection with the Nov. 2022 murders. The judge also ordered Fiebka to pay restitution to cover funeral costs for the victims, which Fiebka has the right to appeal within 30 days.

"You can act as stoic as you like, like you don't care, but you care," the judge said. "Everybody that's about to get locked up and get boxed up for the rest of their life, they care."

"Nah, I'm good," Fiebka said in response.

"We'll see how good you are," the judge replied.

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Dylan Michael Aukett, Pennsylvania

Giving the ‘thumbs-up’ gesture in the photo above on the right is Dylan Aukett, known to his friends as “Loki”.   

“Loki” in Norse mythology is a god known for his mischief and revered as a cunning trickster – who has the ability to change his shape and alter his gender. Perhaps that explains the pink handcuffs.

Aukett and his friend, Richard Brown, (on left) would spend their idle moments breaking into parked cars and running with the goods; which ended one faithful day after Aukett seemed to have left or forgotten or misplaced his cell phone in the one the autos he broke into.  Oooppss. 

In an another episode; police said that around 1 a.m. one morning, officers responded to a reported armed robbery after an individual who identified himself as “Dylan” called 911 “crying and hysterical” and claimed that he had just been robbed at gunpoint by three men who threw him to the ground. The caller hung up when the dispatcher asked him for more information, police said, and responding officers discovered no evidence of a robbery at the scene. The dispatcher tried calling “Dylan” back several times but the calls went unanswered until 1:09 a.m., when a male who identified himself as “Da’Quan” answered and said he had “let someone use his phone that was in need” but didn’t know where that person was.

At the same time that was occurring, police had set up a perimeter around a residence because they believed 20-year-old Richard “Chardo” Moats was hiding out there – a couple of hours earlier, Moats had run away from cops while handcuffed following an alleged public drunkenness arrest after the arresting officer was forced to turn to confront a drunken, belligerent friend of Moats’ who had come up behind the officer during the incident. Moats was eventually discovered hiding in a bedroom closet in the residence, still wearing the handcuffs, police said.

During the subsequent investigation of the fake robbery call, detectives determined that the cellphone used to call 911 belonged to Da’Quan McClendon. McClendon agreed to meet with detectives as part of the investigation, but he never showed up for his scheduled interview. However, a few days later, McClendon was arrested for allegedly chasing and then punching a man who was out jogging, and while he was in custody, local detectives took the opportunity to question him about the phoney robbery call.

According to detectives, McClendon said that Loki (Aukett) had called in the false report to help his friend Moats escape police. McClendon allegedly told investigators he was with Aukett at Aukett’s residence when a relative of Moats who lives at the residence where Moats was eventually found called Aukett and told him to “get the cops away from her house.”

Aukett was subsequently arrested for making a false police report and probation violation, among other things.  

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Samuel L Woodward, California inmate BZ1544, born 1997, arrested in 2018 at age 19, incarceration intake December 2024, life without parole

Murder 

In November 2024 a California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Samuel Woodward, 27, was sentenced in a Southern California courtroom at the end of an all-day hearing for the murder of Blaze Bernstein nearly seven years before. Woodward, who did not appear in court due to illness, was convicted earlier in the year of first-degree murder with an enhancement for a hate crime for killing Bernstein, a gay, Jewish college sophomore.

Dozens of Bernstein’s relatives and friends sat in the courtroom. Many wore T-shirts reading “Blaze it Forward,” a slogan for a campaign to commit acts of kindness in his name following his death.

Woodward’s lawyer, Ken Morrison, asked the court to sentence his client to 28 years to life, saying the judge had some discretion in this regard and that the jurors were not permitted to see all the evidence in the case at trial. Morrison previously said he would appeal the verdict.

Bernstein, who was 19, disappeared in January 2018 after he went out at night with Woodward to a park in Lake Forest, about 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles. After Bernstein missed a dentist appointment the next day, his parents found his glasses, wallet and credit cards in his bedroom and tried to reach him, but he didn’t respond.

Authorities launched an exhaustive search and said Bernstein’s family scoured his social media and saw he had communicated with Woodward on Snapchat. Authorities said Woodward told the family that Bernstein had gone to meet a friend in the park that night and didn’t come back.

Days later Bernstein’s body was found in a shallow grave in the park. He had been repeatedly stabbed in the face and neck.

The question during Woodward’s months long trial was not whether he killed Bernstein but why – and the circumstances under which it happened. Prosecutors said Woodward was affiliated with the violent anti-gay, neo-Nazi extremist group Atomwaffen Division, while Morrison said his client didn’t plan to kill anyone or hate Bernstein, and faced challenging personal relationships due to a long-undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder.

The case took years to go to trial amid a series of delays and stoked public outcry in Southern California, where residents fanned out in 2018 to try to help authorities find Bernstein after he suddenly went missing.

Woodward testified during his trial and gave slow, delayed replies to lawyers’ questions with his long hair partly covering his face.

Bernstein and Woodward attended the same high school, Orange County School of the Arts, and connected via a dating app in the months before the killing. Woodward said he picked up Bernstein, went to a nearby park and repeatedly stabbed Bernstein after trying to grab a cellphone he feared had been used to photograph him.

Morrison, the defense lawyer, said Woodward was confused about his sexuality after growing up in a politically conservative and devout Catholic family in which his father openly criticized homosexuality.

But prosecutors told a different story. They said Woodward had repeatedly targeted gay men online by reaching out to them and abruptly breaking off contact, while keeping a hateful, profanity-laced journal of his actions.

Authorities said they also found a black Atomwaffen mask with traces of blood, a folding knife with a bloodied blade and a host of anti-gay, antisemitic and hate group materials in a search of his family’s home in Newport Beach, California.

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Dylan M Lahr, Pennsylvania inmate MD9266, subsequently paroled to parolee 868IX, born 1996, incarceration intake in 2016 at age 20, released from custody to parole supervision on March 2019, subject to full release in 2035

Aggravated Assault, Conspiracy

In September 2015, three teenagers involved in a rock throwing incident that severely injured a woman from Ohio were sentenced.

The victim Sharon Budd and her family were in court as well.

The case was closed as the remaining three teenagers were sentenced. All three were led away in handcuffs.

Inside the Union County Courthouse Keefer McGee, Dylan Lahr, and Tyler Porter apologized to Sharon Budd for their roles in the July 2014 rock throwing incident that left her with a severe brain injury.

“One of the boys – I forget which one it was – I actually felt goose bumps going up and down my arms. All four of our children are in their twenties so I can’t imagine saying, ‘Good luck, I’ll see you in four and a half years,’” Sharon Budd said.

All three teenagers were sentenced for their roles in the crime.

Dylan Lahr was sentenced first. The judge says Lahr must spend four and a half to 20 years in state prison. He gets credit for close to one year’s time served in jail.

Next Tyler Porter faced the judge. He was sentenced to 22 months to 10 years in state prison.

The Budd family says the biggest shock was Keefer McGee’s sentence. His plea agreement called for 11 and a half to 23 months in the county jail, which is what he got, but he also was granted work release – something the Budds did not expect.

“That privilege has been taken from Sharon and my comment was that he will have 11 and a half months, that’s under a year and then he can work for the rest of his life,” said Sharon’s husband Randy Budd.

The Budd family says with the sentencings come closure.

“It’s been 14 months and it’s finally completed so we can kind of put this one behind us,” Randy Budd said.

Brett Lahr previously pleaded no contest to criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. He was sentenced earlier to one and a half to 20 years in prison for that offense.

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Brett M Lahr, Pennsylvania inmate MB7431, subsequently paroled to parolee 829HX, born 1995, incarceration intake in 2016 at age 21, released from custody to parole supervision March 2020, subject to full release in 2035

Conspiracy

One of the four men charged was sentenced to what could be years in state prison and two others entered guilty pleas at the same hearing for a rock-throwing incident that left a Stark County schoolteacher with severe brain injuries.

Brett Lahr, 19, received 18 months to 20 years after pleading no contest to a conspiracy count. 

Police have said the four young men were out to cause mayhem one night a year ago when they ended up on an Interstate 80 overpass in the dark of night. The rock, which weighed nearly 5 pounds, was sent crashing through a vehicle in which middle school teacher Sharon Budd was a front-seat passenger.

Budd, a resident of Lake Township who taught in Perry, said after the four hearings Tuesday that as a career teacher she felt some sympathy for the men.

“I couldn’t help but my heart went out to them,” Budd said. “I think back to when I was 17, I didn’t always make the best decisions.”

Brett Lahr opted to voluntarily begin serving time earlier this year when he pleaded no contest. Under Pennsylvania sentencing rules, he will be eligible for parole in less than a year and a half, but it’s likely he will serve longer. He will remain on probation until 2035.

“They have chosen to put themselves where they’re at,” said Union County District Attorney Pete Johnson. “The victim didn’t choose to put herself where she’s at.”

Lahr’s lawyer, Bruce Manchester, said his client would get credit for time served in jail for the previous nine months.

“I think it’s very fair, and he now realizes the significance of his conduct,” Manchester said after the hearing. “He is remorseful.”

Sharon’s husband, Randy Budd, said during the sentencing hearing that their lives were forever changed by what happened that night, as his daughter drove the three of them from their home toward New York, where they planned to see a show.

Sharon Budd lost her right eye, does not have full control of her bodily function and needs around-the-clock care, he said.

His lawyer said Brett Lahr feels sorry for what occurred.

“To not have any idea of the damage that … could be caused by a rock of that shape and size going through a windshield of a passenger car, that’s not a prank, that’s evil,” Sholley said.

The judge also ordered Brett Lahr to pay restitution for damage that occurred that night when the four drove through a farmer’s cornfield, and when his brother Dylan broke windows in a home with a baseball bat.

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Dylan Holler, South Dakota inmate 53239, born 1999, incarceration intake in 2019 at age 20, available for parole consideration November 2036, scheduled for release February 2056

Manslaughter

A Sioux Falls man who fatally shot a teen in a city park has been sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison.

Nineteen-year-old Dylan Holler pleaded guilty in November 2019 to manslaughter. Police say he killed 17-year-old Riley Stonehouse in August 2017 following a dispute over drugs.

Holler was ordered to pay more than $15,000 to the Stonehouse family for funeral and medical expenses. He will be eligible for parole after 20 years.

Holler pleaded guilty to shooting Stonehouse during the attempted robbery of a different teen. Holler hit the teen with the gun and it discharged, striking Stonehouse in the back.

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Steven Jameson, Oklahoma inmate 638135, born 1989, incarceration intake in 2016 at age 27, released

Manslaughter

A Tulsa man pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree manslaughter in November 2022.

On Christmas Eve, 2009, Steven Wade Jameson was driving on State Highway 51, west of Sand Springs, when he crossed the center line and hit another vehicle head-on.

The victims inside the other vehicle, Angela, Michael, and James Mulanax, were killed.

Evidence showed that Jameson was driving over the speed limit in poor weather conditions with marijuana in his system.

Jameson had previously pleaded guilty to all three counts of manslaughter in 2011 and was sentenced to 24 years in prison.

He served four years in prison before former Judge James Caputo vacated his sentence and allowed him to withdraw his plea.

As part of the plea agreement, Jameson waived his appellate and post-conviction rights, which means all of his appeals are now exhausted.

Jameson was sentenced to four years in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and was given credit for the time served.

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Steve E Jones, Arizona inmate 341978, born 1997, incarceration intake in 2020, at age 23, released August 2024

Manslaughter, Aggravated Assault

Northern Arizona University gunman and former student Steven Jones was sentenced to six years in prison in 2020.

Jones, who acknowledged firing the shots that killed 20-year-old Colin Brough and injured three others Oct. 9, 2015, is required to serve a minimum of 85% of the sentence based on a plea agreement that was reached prior to the sentencing. Jones formally accepted a plea deal shortly after an agreement was reached by the defendant and prosecutors.

Jones was sentenced to six years on one count of manslaughter and also received five years each on three counts of aggravated assault. Jones was allowed to serve the sentences concurrently, which amounted to six total years in prison based on his longest sentence. Jones has 212 days of credit based on previous time served.

“As to count one, manslaughter, charge involving Colin Brough, you are hereby sentenced to six years,” the Judge said.

Both the plea deal and sentencing followed a mistrial in 2017.

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Grays Harbor County Washington, 1995. 

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Tyler Eugene Tenbrink, Florida inmate G50325, born 1988, incarceration intake March 2019 at age 30, scheduled for release December 2031

Aggravated Assault with no intention to kill, Felon in possession of Weapon or Ammo

In February 2019, the man who fired a shot at protesters after the Richard Spencer (American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist) rally in 2017 was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Tyler Tenbrink was initially charged with first-degree attempted murder but pleaded no contest to aggravated assault and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.

A judge sentenced Tenbrink to 15 years on the aggravated assault and five years on the possession charge, both of which will run concurrently. He will have to serve at least five years of the aggravated assault sentence but with 496 days credit for time already served he could potentially be out in about 3 ½ years.

Authorities say Tenbrink fired one shot at a crowd of protesters after the Richard Spencer rally at the University of Florida in October, 2017.

The original arrest report says Tenbrink, accompanied by brothers William and Colton Fears, drove by a crowd of anti-Spencer protesters when one of them shouted ‘Heil Hitler’ and other chants at the crowd.

The report says one of the protesters hit their vehicle with a baton, prompting Tenbrink to get out and threaten to shoot and kill him. The report says the brothers urged him to shoot. Police say Tenbrink admitted to firing a shot, which didn’t hit anyone.

All three were initially charged with attempted murder but the state attorney’s office dropped the charge against William Fears and reduced Colton Fears’ charge to accessory. His trial is set for March.

Tenbrink spoke to a gaggle of reporters outside of the Spencer rally, saying he didn’t go there to be violent.

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“Before and After”

Devon Zachary Ruttle, South Carolina inmate 377629, born 1997, incarceration intake September 2018 at age 21, sentenced to life without parole

Murder, Drug Possession, Carrying Prohibited Weapon, Possession of Meth

Updated photo above from SC DOC.   Mugshot dated October 2023.

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Brett Kanoff, New York inmate 14A2758, born 1990, incarceration intake June 2014 at age 24, placed on parole 06/04/2019, with full discharge 09/28/2024

Manslaughter

Kanoff was sentenced in Orange County Court for killing Cameron Louis Kanoff by smothering him with a blanket at home in Port Jervis.

Kanoff was originally charged with second-degree murder and faced up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted. He took a plea deal to manslaughter against his lawyer’s advice, in exchange for the four-to-12 year sentence.

A 23-year-old upstate New York man has been sentenced to four to 12 years in prison for suffocating his 1-year-old son in 2012.

Brett Kanoff pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in the death of his 1-year-old son, Cameron. Kanoff was accused of suffocating the infant with a blanket in September 2012.

“The autopsy showed I didn’t suffocate my son,” Kanoff claims. “I took the plea as a way to get things over faster.”

Benjamin Ostrer was Kanoff’s attorney throughout the court proceedings. Ostrer sought to exclude the confession, arguing that police took advantage of a grieving father. Ostrer’s position was that Kanoff falsely confessed due to a desire to please authority. The autopsy findings, he stated, do not corroborate what Kanoff claimed to have done in his “wacky confession.”

The autopsy revealed no signs of trauma or assault, no bruising on the infant’s face, gums or lips, no petechiae (ruptured capillaries) of the eyes. The findings, however, did show carbon monoxide in Cameron’s bloodstream, and also that he was suffering from bronchitis and pneumonia.

“I was not aware of his illness until the autopsy,” Kanoff said. The baby, said his father, was born with a bronchial condition and suffered from back problems.

According to Kanoff, the autopsy results initially attributed his son’s death to sudden infant death syndrome. The cause of death, he says, was subsequently amended to “suffocation” - “only because of what I said.”

Kanoff took the plea deal that gave him four to 12 years, against Ostrer’s advice. Ostrer maintains that his client is innocent.

“I do not believe he did it,” said the attorney. “Brett was very emotionally fragile and scared of trial. He feared getting 25 to life if he was convicted of the top charge.”

“I have nothing to hide,” Kanoff insists. “That’s why I’m so open to discuss this.”

He was “overtired” that September morning, Kanoff remembers. “I had been in the city working with my uncle, doing 70 hours a week, leaving at 7 a.m. and not getting home until 9 p.m. I was sleeping on the couch with Brett Jr., not even five feet from my youngest. My son was crying and I got up and gave him his bottle and put a blanket over him and went back to sleep.”

Upon waking about 11:30 a.m., Kanoff recalls “thinking everything was fine,” and went outside for a cigarette. When he returned, he says, he found his son “not moving.”

Port Jervis police responded to the 911 call from the address of Kanoff’s father, with whom he had been staying. Upon arrival, Brett’s grandfather, Herbert Kanoff, came running out of the house carrying Cameron in his arms. Emergency CPR was not enough to revive the baby, who was taken to Bon Secours Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

“I felt like I wanted to crawl in a hole and never come out because losing my son tore me apart,” says Kanoff. “The memories are painful, and there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about it.”

Cameron Kanoff was born Aug. 22, 2011. His twin brother, Caleb, died at birth. “My wife and I were heartbroken when we lost Caleb.” Kanoff says. “We did everything we could, but sometimes when you’re alone and look at pictures and see a family of four (including older brother, Brett Jr.) and know it should be a family of five, it is so hard … Cameron was our miracle baby.”

Kanoff was married on Nov. 17, 2010 to Samantha Finch in Port Jervis. The couple has been estranged since shortly after the death of their son and Kanoff’s subsequent imprisonment. “She stayed by my side for a year,” Kanoff says, “but at a time when your spouse is looking at 25 to life, what do you do? She moved on.”

In the months leading up to Cameron’s death, Kanoff recalls struggling with finances, and the pressure to provide for his young family. “I would never change the age I had my kids,” Kanoff says, “but there were moments that were hard.”

While in prison, Kanoff is leaning on faith to help cope. “I want the (Port Jervis) community to know I’m not the person they think I am,” he says. “I am not a monster. I love Port Jervis and I love the people in it.”

“I take it one day at a time,” Kanoff says. “I won’t lie, some days are a lot harder than others. I find myself reading my Bible a lot to get through the hard times.” He believes, he says, there will be a day of reunion with lost loved ones. “The love I have for my children goes beyond this life and into the next.”

Samantha Finch, however, is left with the task of helping her surviving son cope with the loss of his siblings and the absence of his father. “I love and miss my children more than anyone will ever know,” she said. “It’s very hard to explain to a 4-year-old that his brothers are gone and not coming back. I’m in so much pain, but I try to do my best with everything.”

“I had my oldest son come to me asking about Cameron,” Finch said, wistfully. “He said, ‘he’s taking too long to come home.’ He told me how he loves and misses Cameron, and how he wants to give him this pair of shoes that don’t fit him anymore.”

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“This jumpsuit that I’m wearing, and these shackles don’t make me guilty.”

Daniel Bartelt, Wisconsin inmate 621440, born 1994, incarceration intake in 2014 at age 20, sentenced to life

Homicide

Life in prison with no chance for parole. That’s the sentence handed down by a Washington County judge for Daniel Bartelt – found guilty of first-degree homicide in the death of 19-year-old Jessie Blodgett. A prosecutor described Bartelt as the most dangerous criminal he has ever met, and now, the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison. The judge could have set a date for when Bartelt would be eligible for parole – but the judge instead decided Daniel Bartelt will never leave prison.

A prosecutor described Bartelt as a psychopath. Others described him as narcissistic. Yet Jessie Blodgett’s father was able to look at his daughter’s killer and tell him this:  "Dan, I forgive you as I have every single day. I believe there is good and bad in each of us, so I don’t demonize or vilify you,“ Blodgett’s father, Buck Blodgett said. Jessie Blodgett was found dead inside her home. Blodgett and Bartelt have been described as friends and classmates. They even recorded music together. On July 15th, 2013, a new student came to Blodgett’s home for a piano lesson around 12:30 p.m. Blodgett’s mother called for her daughter — but after getting no response, she went to Blodgett’s bedroom and discovered her daughter was dead. Blodgett’s mother tried to revive her using CPR — and noticed something on her daughter’s neck.  In court during Bartelt’s trial, the 911 call made by Blodgett’s mother was played. Blodgett’s mother: “It looks like strangulation marks.”  Dispatcher: “There are strangulation marks?”  Blodgett’s mother: “That’s what it looks like. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what’s going on.”

Investigators discovered what they believe were the signs of murder tossed in a trash can in a park. They also discovered articles about serial killers on Bartelt’s computer. During his sentencing hearing, Bartelt looked directly at Blodgett’s family members, and denied killing her.   "Buck, Joy – I can’t give you the reasons you are looking for. There’s no hiding from yourself in a tiny, concrete cell. This jumpsuit that I’m wearing, these shackles don’t make me guilty. I know there’s evidence that I can’t refute that would make you believe that I am guilty,” Bartelt said. The judge admonished Bartelt during his sentencing hearing for not giving Blodgett’s family, at this point, the one thing they wanted: an apology. Bartelt faced four felony charges in the case: two counts of first degree intentional homicide, one count of first degree recklessly endangering safety and one count of false imprisonment. One count of first degree intentional homicide was related to the death of Blodgett. The other three charges are related to an alleged attack at a Richfield Park on July 12th. Jurors in this case deliberated for about three hours following a week-long trial that included details of the crime scene. Those details indicated that climbing rope was used to strangle Blodgett in her bedroom.

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Alexander William Whipple, Utah inmate 236632, born 1997, incarceration intake October 2019, at age 24, sentenced to life without possibility of parole

Aggravated Murder, Kidnapping, Rape

In September 2019, Alex Whipple, the man accused of kidnapping, raping and killing his 5-year-old niece, Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in a Cache County Utah courtroom.

The Judge sentenced Whipple to life in prison for aggravated murder, a capital offense, as well as 25 years to life for child kidnapping, rape of a child and sodomy of a child, all first degree felonies. The sentences, the harshest punishment possible, will run consecutively, the judge said.

In August 2019, Whipple pleaded guilty to the four charges. In exchange for his pleas, two charges of obstructing justice, a second-degree felony, were dismissed with prejudice, as was one count of desecration of a dead human body, a third-degree felony.

Whipple was already promised he will not face the death penalty, a deal he made in exchange for revealing the location of Lizzy’s remains.

“Lizzy” Shelley was reported missing on May 25, 2019. Whipple had been staying overnight at the residence.

Over the coming days, multiple searches were conducted for Lizzy.  Whipple, the brother of Lizzy’s mother, revealed the location of the body five days later. It was less that a block away from her mother’s residence, hidden under debris in an overgrown lot.

Whipple declined to speak in court.

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Jared Cano, Florida inmate T79034, born 1994, incarceration intake December 2012 at age 18, released May 2024

Threat to Bomb

The lawyer for the accused Freedom High School bomb plotter had argued his client could not have possibly carried out his murderous plan — something he said was little more than fantasy anyway.

But in the end, things did not work out perfectly for the defense.

Jared Cano was sentenced to 15 years behind bars, followed by 10 years of probation plus counseling. It could have gone worse for the troubled 18-year-old, however: He was facing up to more than three-dozen years in the slammer.

A then-17-year-old Cano was arrested in August 2011 after authorities received a tip from an unnamed student about Cano’s intentions to wreak havoc on the first day of the 2011-2012 school year at Freedom — the same school that had expelled him.

The defense had argued that Cano only mentioned the threat to the student and not the school itself, and that the bomb-making materials — shrapnel, tubing, timing devices — would not have actually worked anyway.

But the judge upheld the charges against Cano, then 18. He had pleaded no contest.

In reference to the bomb attack, Cano had been facing two charges that carry up to 15 years each: threatening to discharge a destructive device, and attempting to discharge a destructive device. He was also facing drug charges for marijuana authorities found when they raided his New Tampa apartment.

Some disturbing cell phone videos released by state attorneys had showed an angry, troubled teen.

“For those of you retards who don’t know, I’m the Freedom High School shooter from Tampa, Florida,” Cano is reported as saying. “Well, I will be in a couple months.”

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The officer then took out a tube of K-Y Jelly, a personal lubricant, and said: “You are going to need a lot of this.”

Kevin Rojas, Florida inmate J60734, born 1996, incarceration intake December 2017 at age 21, sentenced to life

Attempted Murder, Attempted Manslaughter, Aggravated Assault on LEO, Grand Theft Motor Vehicle, Flee and/or Eluding LEO

A young Jacksonville man who ambushed and shot a Jacksonville police officer multiple times during a traffic stop in 2016 was sentenced to life behind bars Wednesday.

Kevin Rojas was smug in court when the officer called Rojas a coward and said he would have a tough time in prison. The officer then took out a tube of K-Y Jelly, a personal lubricant, and said: “You are going to need a lot of this.”

The officer, who was not publicly named because of his work as an undercover officer, said “No comment” when questioned by local media about the use of his prop after the 30-minute hearing in Circuit Judge’s courtroom.

In March 2016, Rojas had fought with his girlfriend when he grabbed a gun, fired it a few times and suggested the day may be his last one, police said. He then took off in a car and began driving erratically.

That’s when the undercover officer who was taking his child to school decided to pull Rojas over on Collins Road near Roosevelt Boulevard, police said. When the officer took his eyes off Rojas momentarily, the 19-year-old began shooting through the windshield of the officer’s car. Three bullets hit the officer, including in the face. His son was not struck.

The officer fired back as Rojas ran away. He then stole a truck and raced back to his neighborhood, barricading himself inside his home after crashing the truck at a neighbor’s house. Rojas was shot after police officers said they saw him through the sliding-glass door pointing a gun at them. Rojas was shot in the torso, leg and hand.

In court the officer, a former Army soldier, called Rojas a coward.

“I will take those bullets instead of a fellow officer and an innocent bystander,” the officer said. “When I brought the fight back to you, you ran like a coward.”

The officer said his life was changed forever. Rojas, he told the judge, was a menace to everyone that day. Rojas declined to speak on his behalf nor have any character witnesses at his sentencing hearing. 

Rojas was found guilty by a jury on charges of attempted first-degree murder, attempted manslaughter, two counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, grand theft auto and fleeing.

The Judge sentenced him to the maximum prison sentence for each of the crimes: life plus three 15-year sentences and two five-year sentences for the lesser charges.

The Judge told Rojas he struggled with the implication of what happened on that day nearly two years ago. He said he couldn’t comprehend how Rojas could arrive at the decision to begin firing with an intent to kill.

As the Judge sentenced the now 21-year-old to a lifetime behind bars he said, “I’m pretty sure Mr. Rojas doesn’t understand what the rest of his life means.”

Rojas’s family fled the courtroom in tears.

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Justyn Mitchell Pennell, Florida inmate F21474, born 1998, incarceration intake March 2022 at age 24, sentenced to life without parole

Murder

Authorities say then 21-year-old Pennell was driving his PT Cruiser on Jan. 9, 2019 when he saw the victim walking alone on the side of the road. He passed the victim, then made a U-turn and intentionally drove his car toward 75-year-old Michael Pratt, according to investigators. The victim was an Army veteran and grandfather.

In an interview with police, Pennell said that the victim’s body stayed on the hood of his car following impact. After the victim fell off the vehicle, Pennell said he realized his brakes were not working. He maneuvered onto a street then came to rest against a pole. The 911 call originated only because his vehicle stopped working so close to the scene.

Pennell allegedly told authorities he planned to killed someone for months. He was charged with premeditated murder.

In March 2022, two years and two months after the killing, Pennell changed his plea to no contest to the charge against him, just as potential jurors gathered for jury selection. Judge Mary Handsel questioned him on whether the decision was voluntary and done with a clear head.

In response to if he has any mental or emotional illnesses, Pennell told the court he’s been diagnosed with Asperger’s, depression, and PTSD. He said he’d been recommended medication but was not taking any while at the jail. Despite the reported condition, he agreed not being medicated did not prohibit him from making a sound plea.

First-degree homicide in Florida carries a mandatory sentence of life. There is no parole opportunity for murder in Florida.

A critical motion filed by the defense requesting that Pennell’s autism and Asperger’s diagnoses be admitted at trial was denied, observers believe prompting the decision to plead out.

2025 Update

As of January, Pennell has been lodged in the Pasco County Jail has the appeal process of his conviction proceeds. 

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