A mother who killed her toddler daughter by giving her methadone to help her sleep has been sentenced to 30 years behind bars. Courtney Nicole Howell admitted to giving 17-month-old Jaslynn Mansfield the lethal overdose, and said she will regret the decision for the rest of her life. Prosecutors say that after her daughter stopped breathing, she called 911 but failed to tell doctors that she had given her the drugs. If they had known, the baby might have lived, prosecutors said.
Mom Who Killed Son By Injecting Hand
Sanitizer Into His Feeding Tube Gets 40 Years
A Louisianamother who confessed to putting hand
sanitizer and perfume in her toddler's feeding tube - ultimately killing him -
has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars.
Erika
Wigstrom, 22, was handed the maximum sentence after she pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in the 2014 death of 17-month-old Lucas Ruiz, Plaquemines
Parish District Attorney Charles Ballay said on Tuesday. She does not have the
possibility of probation.
Her
toddler son had Down's syndrome and a heart condition, which left him needing
surgery and a feeding tube. Wigstrom, from Belle Chasse, reportedly describedthe death as a mercy killing.
Prosecutors say Wigstromfirst tried to kill Lucasin October 2012
by injecting perfume into his feeding tube while he was in the hospital for
heart surgery, but he survived.
In January 2014, she put hand sanitizer
in his feeding tube and he died
of alcohol poisoning. He had a blood-alcohol level of .280 - which is more
than three times the state's legal driving limit - when he passed away,
according to reports.
There has been an increase in white supremacist
playing with dead bodies: don’t let it be yours!
White supremacists have
already created a name for what this woman did:
Retroactive Jealousy- (you’re jealous of a dead person after they’re
gone and it comes out.)
TULSA, Oklahoma -
A woman was arrested
for illegal dissection of a human body at a Tulsa funeral home. Police say
Shaynna Lauren Sims, also known as Shaynna Smith, cut the deceased woman's
hair, cut her cheek and smeared her makeup.
Family members called
police to the Moore Funeral Home at 1908 South Memorial Drive, saying they saw
Sims with her hands inside the casket.
Police found hair on
the floor near the casket and smeared makeup on the face of the deceased.
There was also
"a large vertical cut starting from the hairline stretching to the tip of
the nose," an arrest report reads.
Police say they found
a folding knife with hair that matched the hair on the floor on Sims' person
during a pat down. They also found scissors, a box cutter knife and
"various pieces of makeup" on the Tulsa woman.
A family member said
Sims had also stolen the victim's shoes.
The deceased's mother
told officers she witnessed Sims next to the casket with her hands inside, then
the woman quickly pulled her hands away. The Associated Press reports that Sims
is dating the deceased woman's ex-boyfriend.
Sims' bond is $10,000
for the dissection complaint and $10,000 on a previous charge of assault and
battery. Court records show she was charged with child neglect in February of
this year and pleaded guilty to an amended charge of assault and battery on
April 15, 2015.
One of the most depraved things I've ever heard of; period.
(Clockwise from top left)Adam Landerman, Alisa Massaro,
Joshua Miner, and Bethany McKee are charged with first degree murder
for allegedly strangling two men to death and attempting to dismember
them on January 10, 2013, in Joliet, Ill.
JOLIET, Ill. - Joshua Miner, one of the four suspects charged with killing two 22-year-old men in Joliet, Ill. on Jan. 10, allegedly admitted that he had sex with his girlfriend, Alisa Massaro, on top of the corpses, The Joliet Patch, citing police documents, reports.
Pictures: Four charged with grisly Ill. murders
The 24-year-old Miner reportedly told investigators that 18-year-old Massaro once told him that she fantasized about having sex with a dead person. So, according to the police reports, that's how Miner got the disturbing idea to engage in sex on top of the two men they had just allegedly killed.
The Patch reports Massaro initially resisted the request. However, they then placed something -perhaps a sheet or a blanket - on top of the bodies and had sex.
Massaro and Miner, along with Adam Landerman, 19, and Bethany McKee, 18, are accused of luring Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover to Massaro's home, then robbing and killing both victims, CBS Chicago reports. The suspects also allegedly tried to dismember Rankins' and Glover's bodies and then continued to party together, according to the station. CBS Chicago reported shortly after the horrific incident that the suspects and victims appeared to be friends.
Joliet Police chief Michael Trafton said the four suspects were not tested for drugs or alcohol when they were arrested, according to the station. Suspect Landerman is reportedly the son of a Joliet police sergeant.County records show Massaro has a restraining order against Miner, who has an extensive criminal record - including a pending child pornography charge, according to the station.
"This is one of the most brutal, heinous and upsetting things I've ever seen in my 27 years of law enforcement," Trafton said at the time. "Not only the crime scene, but the disregard for common decency toward human beings."
Police were notified about two dead bodies at the house, and officers noticed movement inside the house so they went in, Trafton said. He said Landerman, Massaro and Miner were playing video games and were "very much surprised" when the police arrived. McKee had left before police arrived but was picked up by authorities in Kankakee, Ill. shortly after, police said.
