Brett and Sarah Hallow allegedly punished 8-year-old Autumn if she urinated in her clothes or tried to get food without permission. She'd lost hair and weighed just 45 pounds when authorities found her dead.
“I’ve been in this business over 30 years and I’ve been a lot of crazy things but this is the first time I’ve found a dead infant in a bucket of tar … and hopefully the last,” Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner said of the grisly discovery.
Lori Riess was previously sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Pamela Hutchinson in Florida, but was given another life term for killing her husband, David Riess.
Jenna Oakley and her boyfriend, Kenneth Nigh, were captured sleeping in the parking lot of a New Mexico motel just days after her stepmother’s brutal murder.
Chandler Police are currently on a six-month timetable in their investigation into Charles Vallow's death, but stress that there's no hard deadline in the case.