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Honken grew up in Britt, Iowa. [3] His father, Jim Honken, was an alcoholic schemer who was allegedly neglectful. Honken reported in his pre-sentence investigation that his father struck him numerous times during his childhood, although he denied that his father was physically abusive and maintained that the emotional turmoil in his early life mostly stemmed from his father's alcoholism.
Lionel Alexander Tate (born January 30, 1987) [ 1] is the youngest American citizen ever sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, though this sentence was eventually overturned. [ 2] In January 2001, when Tate was 13, he was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1999 battering death of six-year-old Tiffany Eunick in ...
Student. Known for. Child murder victim. Jetseta Marrie Gage (August 25, 1994 – March 24, 2005) was an American child whose kidnapping, rape and murder prompted major changes in sentencing laws for those who commit child sex crimes in Iowa. Roger Bentley, a convicted sex offender and friend of Gage's family, was arrested in connection with 10 ...
July 23, 2024 at 1:57 PM. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who spent nearly two decades on South Carolina's death row for killing two people has been granted life in prison without parole two years ...
Kristina Fetters. Kristina Joy Fetters (February 5, 1980 - July 27, 2014) was an Iowa woman who was convicted of the murder of her 73-year-old great- aunt, Arlene Klehm, on October 25, 1994, when she was 14 years old. [1] At age 15, Fetters became the youngest woman in Iowa sentenced to life in prison without parole on December 18, 1995.
Cole was simultaneously sentenced to life in prison for the other offences he committed. Cole's defence counsel reportedly urged the judge to consider Cole's troubled childhood during sentencing, but Justice Swigert aligned with the stance of the prosecution, who all described Cole as a "cold and indifferent killer".
The state of Iowa has no death penalty. On August 30, 2021, Rivera was sentenced to life in prison without parole. [3] As of October 26, 2021, VINELink shows that Rivera is incarcerated at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) at Fort Madison, Iowa. This is a maximum security prison, where he will be serving out his life sentence. [45]
On June 9, 2017, Yingying Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen, a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university. Christensen, who investigators claimed aspired to be a serial killer, lured Zhang into his car at a bus stop on campus ...