“This is the kind of case that haunts people at night," Limestone County District Attorney Brian C.T. Jones said after a 40-year-sentence was handed down to Amanda Reyer.
Clauddine Blanchard falsely claimed her daughter Gypsy suffered from a host of ailments, subjecting her to unnecessary surgery and treatments. The truth finally came out after she was stabbed to death in 2015.
All eight victims, including seven members of the Rhoden family and one of the victim's fiancée, were systematically executed on the same April 2016 night by the Wagner family.
“Tragedy struck in July 2017 here in our community,” Major Ed O’Carroll of the Fairfax police said at a news briefing on Meghan Hargan's arrest and first-degree murder charges. “Today, justice prevails.”
Michael Yakubec claimed his dad, John Yakubec, fell in the shower, but police didn't think things quite added up, like the fact he was brought to the hospital fully clothed and dry.
David Pena's attorney contends his client didn't kill his wife, but instead found her dying, took the knife out her back, and told her he'd clean up the crime scene so her son wouldn't see it.