Lack of Remorse

Thankfully, I don’t know how it feels to lose a child to an act of violence. I imagine it ranks close to the worst possible life-altering event.

I first shared this true crime in the summer of 2022. The parents of their only child, a 31-year-old son, were beyond distraught over his murder. The FBI followed the evidence to find out who had killed the man.

The deceased man’s 54-year-old mother grew impatient and began her own investigation into her son’s murder. When she believed she knew who had killed her son, she devised a plan to seek vigilante justice.

She dressed like a UPS driver, carried a cardboard box with her hand inside holding a gun and knocked on the woman’s door she was convinced had killed her son. When the woman opened the door, the mother shot her twice and ran.

Waiting in the ‘getaway car’ was her life-partner/father of the murdered man. They took off and then pulled over down the road to swap out their vehicle’s license plate. They hadn’t gotten far when the authorities pulled them over.

Before they got to the mother, she shot herself—dying two weeks later from her injuries.

The woman who opened her door to the fake UPS driver survived her injuries. She was not the woman who’d killed their son.

They arrested the murdered man’s 65-year-old father. He later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to assault with intent to kill. A judge sentenced him to 42 months in prison. He served his time.

Since then, the woman who did murder the son, who the authorities arrested a few weeks after the mother died, had been in jail this whole time.

Her motive for the murder: she claimed the man had raped her. She went to the authorities to file charges but was told she didn’t have evidence to back up her charge, so they couldn’t do anything. Ironically, like the man’s mother, she exacted justice on him by killing him.

Because the court system can move slowly with certain cases, her case concluded in 2025. Her defense, PTSD from the rape. Before the case went to trial, she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using or carrying and discharging a firearm during, and in relation to, a crime of violence. The judge sentenced the 35-year-old woman to over 22 years in federal prison with five years of supervised release after she serves her time.

At the sentencing, one prosecutor associated with the case said in court,

“It was a cold, calculated intention to cause his death.”

Then he added,

“What I see here today is a lack of remorse.”

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Law & Crime, 19 News CBS

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