Possible Death Penalty For Alabama Grandmother Charged With Torturing 9 Year Old Granddaughter To Death

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Joyce Hardin Garrard was found guilty of Capital Murder in the death of 9-year-old granddaughter, Savannah Hardin.

Jurors who convicted an Alabama woman in the running death of her 9-year-old granddaughter soon must decide whether to recommend she should die for the crime or spend the rest of her life in prison.

A jury convicted 49-year-old Joyce Hardin Garrard late Friday in the February 2012 death of Savannah Hardin, siding with prosecutors who depicted Garrard as a “drill sergeant from hell,” a domineering taskmaster so enraged over a lie about candy that she made the girl run until she dropped. Continue reading “Possible Death Penalty For Alabama Grandmother Charged With Torturing 9 Year Old Granddaughter To Death”

Crime Expert Charles Montaldo Details “The Stages of a Criminal Case”

cuffsIf you have be arrested for a crime, you are at the beginning of what could become a long journey through the criminal justice system. Although the process may vary somewhat from state to state, these are the steps that most criminal cases follow until the case is resolved.

Some cases end quickly with a guilty plea and paying a fine, while others can go on for decades through the appeals process. Continue reading “Crime Expert Charles Montaldo Details “The Stages of a Criminal Case””

63 Year Old New Jersey Woman Convicted Of Cutting Up Her Husband And Storing Remains In Tupperware

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Loretta Burroughs, 63, was convicted in the 2007 killing of her husband.

Call her a pack rat. Call her guilty.

A New Jersey woman who took the dismembered remains of her husband with her when she moved at least twice has been found guilty of murder.

Loretta Doyle Burroughs, 63, of Ventnor City, was convicted in the 2007 killing of Doyle Burroughs after a four-day trial in Atlantic County Criminal Court in Mays Landing, N.J.

“The end of it all is Daniel Burroughs, decomposed in two Tupperware containers in this defendant’s closet,” Levy said. “This is how it ends.” Continue reading “63 Year Old New Jersey Woman Convicted Of Cutting Up Her Husband And Storing Remains In Tupperware”