Ten years of marriage, shared visitation with one stepchild and two children after a divorce can leave a man lonely. This man must have needed more than a good job, a nice home, and regular visitation with his children. He must’ve wanted companionship. Nowadays, it seems the way to meet someone is through a dating app. That did not work out well for the man in this true crime.
The 43-year-old man and the 31-year-old woman connected through a dating app and then agreed to meet. She went to his home. The children were not there. When the father failed to pick up his daughter from pre-school, the authorities did a welfare check and found him dead. Someone had shot the man twice.
It was a sloppy crime scene. The perpetrator had left behind shell casings, and a bloody shoe print. After neighbors heard gunshots, a security camera recorded the woman getting into a car driven by someone else, and a neighbor saw her.
The police conducted a thorough and expedient investigation. They linked the woman from the dating app to the deceased man and obtained the victim’s cell phone records. Once they accessed her cell phone records, they could see that both cell phones—hers and his—were pinging off the same cell towers at the same time until she disposed of his phone. After the shooting, the woman called 9-1-1 but then hung up. They had a record of the call from her cell phone while it was at his home.
Once they had a potential suspect, they looked at her social media posts and saw one she’d shared of a cigar in an ashtray. They found two of the same brand cigars in an ashtray at the man’s home with DNA from the woman on one cigar.
The investigation also showed that after the shooting, the woman searched for news of the crime.
After they arrested the woman and before her trial, she agreed to plead guilty to aggravated murder with a gun specification—considered as a special felony in the state where the crime occurred. They were unable to determine a motive for the murder.
At the sentencing hearing, the judge said to the victim’s family,
“I will say that the avoidance of a trial is a benefit to everyone because it is an extremely traumatic experience for everyone involved. There would be images and things that you would have to see that you could never un-see.”
A judge sentenced her to life in prison. She’ll be eligible to petition for release after serving 23 years. The judge also placed her on a violent offender registry.
Source: County Prosecutor, Law & Crime, Fox 8, 11 ALIVE
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