Amber Waterman Murders Ashley Bush In Missouri

Ashley Bush Amber Waterman
Ashley Bush Amber Waterman

Amber Waterman is a killer from Missouri who would kidnap and murder pregnant Ashley Bush in order to steal her unborn child

According to court documents Amber Waterman had been telling Ashley Bush that she would be able to find her a job in order to establish trust. Ashley would be dropped off at a store where she would be picked up by Waterman. Ashley would later tell her fiance they were headed back to the store however the fiance would see the pair drive past. That was the last time Ashley was seen alive

Ashley Bush body would be found two days later near a property owned by Amber Waterman. The unborn baby body would be found in a separate location

Amber Waterman would be arrested and would ultimately plead guilty to kidnapping and murder. She will now be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Ashley Bush lived in Arkansas which is why this case was in Federal court

Amber Waterman Case

A Missouri woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after admitting in court that she kidnapped and killed a pregnant Arkansas woman in what prosecutors say was an attempt to claim her baby.

Amber Waterman, 44, of Pineville, Missouri, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Springfield to one count each of kidnapping resulting in death and causing the death of a child in utero. U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore said Waterman’s mandatory sentence will be life in prison without parole. Formal sentencing is Oct. 15.

In her plea, Waterman admitted that she used a false name to contact Ashley Bush of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, on Facebook. Bush, 33, was about 31 weeks pregnant at the time.

Federal prosecutors said Waterman and Bush agreed to meet at an Arkansas convenience store on Oct. 31, 2022, under the guise of Waterman helping Bush get a job. Instead, Waterman drove Bush to Waterman’s home in Pineville.

Hours later, first responders were called to the home on a report that a baby was not breathing. The baby was pronounced dead. Waterman at first claimed she had given birth. In her plea, she admitted the baby was Bush’s. Bush was also the mother of three other children.

Bush’s body was found in a separate location. Arkansas authorities said she died from a gunshot wound, but police and prosecutors declined to provide more information on how the baby died.

Waterman’s husband, Jamie Waterman, was charged with being an accessory after the fact for allegedly helping dispose of Bush’s body. His trial is scheduled for October.

https://www.kait8.com/2024/07/31/missouri-woman-admits-kidnapping-killing-pregnant-arkansas-woman

Amber Waterman Sentencing

A judge sentenced a Pineville, Mo., woman in federal court for the kidnapping and murder of a pregnant Arkansas woman and her victim’s unborn child.

Amber Waterman, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to two consecutive life sentences in federal prison without parole.

On July 30, 2024, Amber Waterman pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping resulting in death and one count of thereby causing the death of a child in utero. Waterman admitted that she kidnapped Ashley Bush to claim her unborn child, Valkyrie Willis, as her own. Waterman transported Ashley Bush from Maysville, Ark., to Pineville. The kidnapping resulted in the deaths of both Ashley Bush and Valkyrie Willis.

Her husband, Jamie Waterman, 44, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush to one count of being an accessory after the fact to the kidnapping resulting in death. Jamie Waterman admitted that he knew Amber Waterman had kidnapped Bush, causing the death of her unborn child, and provided assistance in order to hinder or prevent the apprehension, trial, and punishment of Amber Waterman.

Amber Waterman, using a false name, contacted Bush, who was approximately 31 weeks pregnant, via Facebook. Amber Waterman pretended to help Bush obtain employment, suggesting she had a job opportunity for her. That prompted an in-person meeting between the two women on Oct. 28, 2022, at the Gravette, Ark., public library. They agreed to meet again on Oct. 31, 2022.

On Oct. 31, 2022, at roughly 11:45 a.m., Bush met Amber Waterman at the Handi-Stop convenience store in Maysville, Ark. Under the pretext that Amber Waterman was taking her to meet a supervisor to discuss employment further, Bush got into a truck driven by Amber Waterman. Amber Waterman then kidnapped and abducted Bush, driving her from Maysville to the Waterman residence in Pineville.

According to court documents, Amber Waterman led Jamie Waterman to Bush’s body. Jamie Waterman assisted in hiding and disposing of the body.

At about 5 p.m. on Oct. 31, 2022, first responders reported to the Longview store in Pineville for an emergency call of a baby who was not breathing. Amber Waterman admitted that she claimed to first responders that she had given birth to the child in the truck while on the way to the hospital. But in reality, she admitted, the child was Bush’s child, who died in utero as a result of Amber Waterman’s kidnapping that resulted in the death of Bush.

An autopsy indicated Bush died as a result of penetrating trauma of the torso, and her death was classified as a homicide.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Stephanie L. Wan and James J. Kelleher. It was investigated by the FBI, the Benton County, Ark., Sheriff’s Department, and the McDonald County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Arkansas and the Benton County, Ark., Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

https://www.ky3.com/2024/10/15/judge-sentences-southwest-missouri-woman-life-prison-kidnapping-murder-pregnant-woman-unborn-child

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Brian Dorsey Executed For 2 Missouri Murders

Brian Dorsey was executed by the State of Missouri on April 9 2024 for two murders

According to court documents Brian Dorsey would call his cousin and her husband, Sarah Bonnie and Ben Bonnie, and told them that he felt he was in danger as drug dealers were banging on his door demanding that he repay his dept

Sarah Bonnie and Ben Bonnie would pick up Brian Dorsey and bring them back to their home for the night. After the couple went to bed Dorsey would fatally shoot the couple. The couple’s four year old daughter was in the home however she was not harmed

Brian Dorsey would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Brian Dorsey would be executed by lethal injection

Brian Dorsey Execution

Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey was executed on Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, officials confirmed.

Dorsey was convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband nearly 20 years ago.

The state carried out Dorsey’s death sentence by lethal injection at Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri’s Department of Corrections said in a statement. He was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. local time.

The execution proceeded on Tuesday evening after the high court rejected two separate bids to intervene. There were no noted dissents. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, confirmed Monday that the state would move forward with Dorsey’s death sentence, rejecting a separate request for clemency.

More than 70 current and former corrections officers had urged Parson to commute Dorsey’s sentence, arguing he had been rehabilitated, and his lawyers said that Dorsey was in a drug-induced psychosis when he committed the killings in 2006.

Dorsey, 52, was the first inmate in Missouri to be executed this year after four were put to death in 2023.

Kirk Henderson, Dorsey’s attorney, criticized the state for moving forward with the execution.

“If anyone deserves mercy, surely it is Brian, who has been fully rehabilitated and whose death sentence was so flawed that five of his jurors believe he should not be executed,” Henderson said in a statement. “Executing Brian Dorsey is a pointless cruelty, an exercise of the state’s power that serves no legitimate penological purpose.”

Dorsey pleaded guilty to shooting and killing his cousin, Sarah Bonnie, and her husband, Ben Bonnie, at their home on Dec. 23, 2006. According to court filings, Dorsey had called his cousin for money to give to two drug dealers who were at his apartment, and the three returned to the Bonnies’ home later that night after they agreed to help him.

After Sarah and Ben Bonnie, and their daughter, went to bed, Dorsey grabbed a shotgun and shot the couple, after which prosecutors accused Dorsey of sexually assaulting his cousin. He then stole several items from the Bonnies’ home, including jewelry and their car, and attempted to sell them to repay his drug debt, state officials said.

The bodies were discovered after Sarah Bonnie’s parents went to the home after the couple was missing from a family gathering on Christmas Eve. When they went into the house, they found the couple’s 4-year-old daughter sitting on the couch, who told her grandparents her mother wouldn’t wake up.

Dorsey turned himself in to the police three days after the killings and confessed to the murders. He was then sentenced to death.

After failed appeals of his death sentence, the Missouri Supreme Court issued an execution warrant in December. Dorsey sought further relief, arguing his conviction and sentence violated the Sixth Amendment, though his efforts were unsuccessful.

In one request for the Supreme Court’s intervention, Dorsey’s attorneys argued that the lawyers appointed by the Missouri Public Defender Office to represent him were paid a flat fee of $12,000 apiece, which presented a conflict of interest that pitted their personal finance interests directly against Dorsey’s right to effective assistance of counsel.

Brian Dorsey’s current attorneys told the Supreme Court in a filing that his appointed lawyers provided “grossly deficient representation” in a capital case and pressured their client to plead guilty with no agreement that prosecutors wouldn’t pursue the death penalty.

They argued in a second request that Dorsey has achieved “remarkable redemption and rehabilitation” in his more than 17 years on death row, and the “goals of capital punishment will not be furthered by” his execution.

Brian Dorsey’s attorneys also raised concerns about Missouri’s execution protocol, which says nothing about the use of any pain relief. They describe their client in court filings as obese, diabetic and a former user of intravenous drugs, all of which could make it difficult to establish IV lines for the lethal injection and may lead Missouri Department of Corrections employees to use “cut downs.”

Under the procedure, large incisions are made in the arms, legs or other areas of the body, and tissue is pulled away from the vein. A federal lawsuit filed on Dorsey’s behalf in Missouri district court alleged that no anesthetic is given during “cut downs,” and the procedure occurs before an inmate meets with their spiritual adviser for the last time, which Dorsey plans to do.

His attorneys argued that the “significant pain and anguish” Dorsey would be in when he meets his spiritual adviser would hinder his ability to freely exercise his religion.

A settlement was reached Saturday, under which the state would take steps to limit the risk of extreme pain for Dorsey, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brian-dorsey-execution-supreme-court

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Angela West Murders 5 Year Old

Angela West is a killer from Missouri who was convicted of the murder of a five year old girl

According to court documents Angela West and her codefendent Shamira Buford would hogtie the five year old girl and stick a sock in her mouth as she apparently took food. A young boy would tell a resource teacher at school that something had happened to the child. When authorities would arrive another child would tell them that her sister was dead. Authorities would discover the body of five year old inside of the home

Unfortunately following an autopsy it was revealed that this was not the first time that the little girl suffered. Angela West (photo left) and Shamira Buford would be arrested and charged with murder

Angela West would plead guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Shamira Buford is due to go on trial in 2024

Angela West Case

A Waynesville woman was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday in connection to the death of a child earlier this year.

Angela West pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree resulting in the death of a child.

Waynesville police responded to a home in the 700 block of Washington Street in early March and found a deceased 5-year-old girl.

During the investigation, police determined that the adults in the home regularly disciplined the victim by tying her up at night with ropes, and if she cried, they placed a sock in her mouth and covered it with duct tape, according to a press release from the Pulaski County Office of Prosecuting Attorney.

The cause of death was determined to be suffocation. The child had extensive ligature marks and bruises from the ropes, and was very malnourished, court documents said.

Angela West was one of two adults who participated in the abuse of the child resulting in her death, Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Hillman said.

Shamira Buford is also charged with endangering the welfare of a child, abuse or neglect of a child, second-degree murder and first-degree involuntary manslaughter. Buford will face a jury trial in June 2024, according to online court records.

“This is one, if not the most tragic case, I have seen in my 13 years as prosecuting attorney,” Hillman said in a press release. “These were heinous acts perpetrated on a young and innocent victim over a long period of time and I commend Judge Beger for sentencing the defendant to life imprisonment for her role in this abuse and death of this child.”

Angela West will serve the time in the Missouri Department of Corrections

https://www.komu.com/news/midmissourinews/waynesville-woman-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-childs-death/article_7186a940-a015-11ee-9f69-b70572e5d98c.html

Angela West News

Two women in Missouri were arrested this week on a slew of felony charges for allegedly killing a 5-year-old girl who was hogtied and gagged with a sock in her mouth in an effort to prevent the child from stealing food, police said. Angela West, 40, and Shamira Buford, 36, were taken into custody on Tuesday and both charged with second-degree murder, first-degree involuntary manslaughter, abuse or neglect of a child – resulting in death and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child in connection with the little girl’s death, authorities announced.

According to a press release from the Waynesville Police Department, on the morning of March 7, a young student contacted a Waynesville School resource officer and reported that prior to arriving at school he saw that his younger sister was unconscious and unresponsive on the floor in their home. The resource officer immediately contacted the police who responded to the residence located in the 700 block of Washington Street, which is about 140 miles southwest of St. Louis.

Upon arriving at the home, first responders say they made contact with another one of the reporting child’s siblings. The second child answered the door and “stated that her younger sibling was deceased inside the residence.”

“Officers made entry and confirmed that one person, a 5-year-old female, was unconscious and unresponsive,” the release states. “After the Waynesville Officers secured the area, the victim was pronounced deceased on scene by Pulaski County Coroner Roger Graves.”

The two adult females in the residence — later identified as Angela West and Buford — were subsequently taken into custody and transported to the Pulaski County Jail. County Circuit Judge Colin Long ordered both of the defendants to be held without bond pending additional proceedings.

Police provided additional details in a sworn affidavit of probable cause obtained by Springfield CBS affiliate KOLR.

According to the report, West and Buford were both asleep when police arrived at their home at around 8:50 a.m. and the child who answered the door told the officers that their younger sibling had choked. It was reportedly Buford who then found the child’s body covered by a blanket in the living room.

Police said that the deceased girl appeared to have “significant” ligature marks around her wrists, ankles, and neck. A grey sock that was “saturated in an unknown substance” and appeared to have blood on it was found next to the child’s body, Columbia ABC affiliate KMIZ reported.

The child who made the initial report allegedly told police that both women had been tying up his little sister at night for several weeks because she steals food, KOLR reported. Another child reportedly said West and Buford would make the 5-year-old’s siblings help tie her up to a futon.

According to KOLR, Buford admitted to police that she and West would tie up the 5-year-old because she “continued to steal food.” They allegedly began by using duct tape and eventually moved on to “hogtying” the child using nylon rope. Buford also allegedly admitted that they used the sock to gag the child because her “whining and crying” kept the other children up at night, reports say.

“We got tired of telling her to be quiet,” Buford told police when asked about the sock-gag, KMIZ reported.

“I thought she was OK because she could breathe through her nose,” West reportedly said in reference to the sock.

Buford and West are scheduled to appear before Judge Long for a bond review on March 13, court records show.

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Ramon White Murders Dwight Henderson

Ramon White is a teen killer from Missouri who was convicted of the murder of Dwight Henderson

According to court documents Ramon White would attempt to carjack Dwight Henderson at a St. Louis gas station however a struggle ensued that saw the victim shot and killed

Ramon White would be arrested and convicted

This is not the first time that Ramon White has been involved in a murder description for when he was fifteen years old he was charged in the murder of thirteen year old Anthony Wilson Jr however the charges were later dropped due to lack of evidence

Ramon White Case

The family of Dwight Henderson has for years believed his death at the hands of a man trying to steal his car at a Berkeley gas station could have been prevented.

Just before midnight on July 11, 2020, Henderson went into the Petro-Mart gas station on Airport Road to buy a few bottles of water. He had worked a shift that day managing Amazon delivery dispatchers, then spent some time with his fiancée and their two kids — a newborn girl and a 1-year-old boy.

Surveillance video played in a trial this week showed that when Henderson stood at the convenience store counter, with his rental car running in the lot, he spotted a man trying to drive off in the car. Henderson ran outside and tried to grab the robber’s gun. Within seconds, the 32-year-old father was shot once in the chest.

A St. Louis County jury deliberated for about six hours on Thursday before finding Ramon White, 21, of Pine Lawn, guilty of second-degree murder, attempted robbery and two weapons offenses.

Henderson’s family was relieved by the verdict. But they say White should have been held accountable years ago.

Three years before killing Henderson, White was charged in the murder of a 13-year-old boy, Anthony Wilson Jr., near a playground in St. Louis’ Wells Goodfellow neighborhood. White was 15 at the time but was charged as an adult.

St. Louis prosecutors dropped all charges in February 2019, the same day his trial was set to begin. Former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner’s office said key witnesses were not available to testify.

“Most people don’t get second chances, but Ramon did. And what did he do with it?” Shayla Powell, Henderson’s fiancée and mother of his two children said after the verdict Thursday. “I want to forgive because I know he probably wasn’t raised right, but he had the chance to change. Now I have to be a mother to two kids alone.”

White, who was 17 when his murder charge was dropped, was charged again just two months after his release with stealing cars out of driveways in St. Charles County

And he was out on bond in those cases when he shot and killed Henderson. The Bail Project, a nonprofit that helps people who can’t afford their cash bonds, paid $1,000 — 10% of White’s $10,000 bond — to bail him out on the St. Charles County cases in October 2019.

The nonprofit has faced scrutiny for cases where the organization posted bail money for defendants who are released on bond without their own money on the line and who go on to be charged with violent crimes. Most recently, in Clayton last month, a man who was bailed out by the nonprofit on several pending felonies is accused of killing a man who confronted several people who were breaking into his wife’s car.

The nonprofit argued on Friday that the purpose of bail is to ensure that defendants follow bond conditions and show up for court dates — not as a means to keep someone imprisoned indefinitely before trial.

“These release conditions were set by a judge with more information than anyone else, including access to all of the details of Mr. White’s current case as well as his previous history,” The Bail Project said in a statement. “Nearly a year before this horrible tragedy, when it was clear that the only reason Mr. White was being held in jail was that his family was too poor to afford this amount or a bail bonds agent, The Bail Project agreed to help.”

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Benjamin Kloos told the jury during closing statements Thursday that White didn’t succeed in stealing Henderson’s car.

“I wish he would have,” Kloos said. Instead, “he stole a lot more than that.”

White’s public defender, Jay Kanzler, argued that prosecutors never proved White was the shooter captured on the surveillance footage. He suggested people in the car with White might have been the culprits.

Prosecutors presented DNA evidence tying White to Henderson’s rental car, footage of a police interrogation with White and social media messages that showed White trying to sell a gun two days after the killing.
A break in the case

St. Louis County police Detective Robert Bates, the lead investigator in Henderson’s killing, testified during the three-day trial that a crime bulletin he sent to police across the region led to a key lead in the case.

The bulletin included still images from the gas station’s surveillance cameras. St. Louis Officer Andrei Nikolov, who also testified, contacted Bates to say he recognized the man as White, whom he’d interacted with a few months prior.

The St. Louis County crime lab analyzed the DNA on a fingerprint from the door handle of Henderson’s car and found there was a 300-billion-to-one chance it was anyone but White.

White’s attorney, Kanzler, attempted to call a statistician to testify as an expert questioning the data in the DNA analysis. But Circuit Judge Nancy Watkins McLaughlin ruled against allowing him to take the stand, finding he wasn’t qualified as a DNA expert.

St. Louis County police also got a warrant for data connected to a Facebook page they believed belonged to Ramon White, under the name “Hothead Ramon.”

The page included multiple attempts to sell a 9 mm gun — the type used to kill Henderson — within a few days of the shooting. The page also had a message saying White was in a Kia about four hours before the shooting. The shooter in the footage arrived with a group of people in a blue Kia Optima.

St. Louis County police never found the Kia or the murder weapon. Police did find a Kia Optima that had been set on fire and abandoned within days of the killing, but they weren’t able to confirm if it was the same car, prosecutors told the jury.

Ramon White was arrested in his grandmother’s Pine Lawn home nine days after Henderson’s death. In the home, police found a padded vest marked with the word “Icon” and a camouflage facemask resembling the clothes worn by Henderson’s killer.

St. Louis County Detective Matt Levy interviewed White soon after his arrest. The recording was played for the jury.

Levy asked if Ramon White knew anything about a shooting at the gas station.

“Maybe,” White said.

Ramon White then described to Levy common tactics for stealing cars. Levy asked if White knew who killed Henderson.

“I know what snitches do,” White told him. “Snitches die.”

Ramon White initially denied being at the gas station. But when Levy confronted him with the surveillance stills, he admitted the shooter looked like him.

“Is this you in the picture?” Levy asked.

“Mm-hm,” White said.

Levy soon told Ramon White he was charged with murder and left the room. White was recorded putting his head in his hands before lying on the ground and, within a few minutes, falling asleep.

Ramon White’s attorney, Kanzler, argued that White referred to getting high in the interview and didn’t seem “with it.”

But the prosecutor, Kloos, compared White’s denials to a child with pink frosting on their face who denies eating sweets.

“Mr. White has pink frosting all over his face and all over his hands,” Kloos said.

‘The biggest loss is theirs’

Henderson’s sister, Sharay Hogans, said her brother was a hardworking protector of his family. He taught himself multiple languages and started his own detailing and car wash business for Amazon delivery vehicles, on top of managing dispatch for delivery drivers.

“He was an amazing man and a great father,” she said.

Another sister, Shabreca Hogans, said Henderson was a role model to her two sons

“He taught them to throw footballs, how to ride a bike and how to skate,” she said. “He’s one of the only men in our family that was around. He was determined to break the statistic, to be there for his kids. The biggest loss is theirs.”

Sharay Hogans said her family places the most blame on Ramon White but also questions why his previous murder charge was dropped. The St. Louis circuit attorney at the time, Gardner, resigned in May amid attempts by the Missouri Legislature and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to remove her from office over mishandled cases and management of the office.

“If he’d gone to trial and been convicted, maybe that would have taught him a lesson,” Sharay Hogans said. “Or maybe not. Maybe he is just someone that was never going to stop.”

Ramon White picked up another felony charge as he awaited his trial for Henderson’s killing. He was one of three men charged with first-degree assault in October 2021 and accused of attacking a fellow inmate in the St. Louis County jail.

Ramon White is accused of punching a man without provocation, beating him with a broom handle and stomping him in the head, with the help of the other men.

The 45-second attack caught on surveillance video ended as jail staff responded to the exercise area, records show. The man was hospitalized for more than a week with severe head fractures and brain hemorrhaging.

Ramon White still faces multiple pending felony cases in St. Charles County and St. Louis County. He hasn’t yet been sentenced for Henderson’s murder.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/a-teen-s-murder-charge-was-dropped-then-he-killed-a-stranger-in-a-st/article_d80b1668-8faf-11ee-b6a9-db77776f5368.html

Ramon White News

A suburban St. Louis man who narrowly avoided prosecution as a teen in the killing of a 13-year-old has been convicted of fatally shooting a father of two during an attempted carjacking.

Ramon White, 21, of Pine Lawn, was found guilty Thursday of second-degree murder, attempted robbery and two weapons offenses in the July 2020 death of Dwight Henderson, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

It all happened after Henderson, a 32-year-old manager of Amazon delivery dispatchers, went to a gas station. While inside buying water, he spotted a man trying to drive off with his rental car and ran outside. He then tried to grab the robber’s gun and was shot once in the chest.

White’s public defender, Jay Kanzler, suggested people in the car with White might have been the culprits. Prosecutors presented DNA evidence tying White to Henderson’s rental car, footage of a police interrogation with White and social media messages that showed White trying to sell a gun two days after the killing.

Three years before killing Henderson, White was charged in the killing of a 13-year-old boy, Anthony Wilson Jr., near a St. Louis playground. White was 15 at the time but was charged as an adult.

St. Louis prosecutors dropped all charges in February 2019, the same day his trial was set to begin. Former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner’s office said key witnesses were not available to testify.

“Most people don’t get second chances, but Ramon did. And what did he do with it?” Shayla Powell, Henderson’s fiancée and mother of his two children, said after the verdict. Henderson’s daughter was just a newborn and his son just 1 when he was killed.

Ramon White was charged again just two months after his release with stealing cars out of driveways in St. Charles County. He was out on bond in those cases when he shot and killed Henderson.

The Bail Project, a nonprofit that helps people who can’t afford their cash bonds, paid $1,000 — 10% of Ramon White’s $10,000 bond — to bail him out on the St. Charles County cases in October 2019. The nonprofit has faced criticism over crimes committed by other people after posting their bond.

The nonprofit argued on Friday that the purpose of bail is to ensure that defendants follow bond conditions and show up for court dates — not as a means to keep someone imprisoned indefinitely before trial.

https://apnews.com/article/boy-killed-charges-dropped-3d7fba3d0526539b72344210e7b44efc

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Trystan Westrip Murders Mary Shisler

Trystan Westrip was a sixteen year old teen killer from Missouri who would murder eighty year old Mary Shisler

According to court documents following an argument with his parents Trystan Westrip decided to run away from home and head to Canada however he did not think his vehicle would make it. Westrip would then drive around looking for a vehicle to steal

Trystan Westrip ended up at Mary Shisler home. The elderly woman offered to help him and the two began to walk to her neighbors when Westrip would stab the woman in the head. Westrip would then throw her body over a fence, drag her into a field and stabbed her multiple times

Trystan Westrip would be arrested hours later driving Mary Shisler vehicle. He would be convicted and sentenced to life in prison

Trystan Westrip Now

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DOC ID1375079
Offender NameTrystan LEE Westrip
RaceWhite
SexMale
Date of Birth01/25/2000
Height/Weight6’1″ / 180
Hair/EyesBrown / Blue
Assigned LocationJefferson City Correctional Center

Trystan Westrip Case

A Republic man pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to life in prison for killing an 80-year-old woman when he was 16.

Trystan Westrip, now 22, agreed to plead guilty in exchange for the state dropping his first-degree murder charge down to second-degree murder.

Westrip’s attorney Patrick Berrigan explained that a recent law change regarding juvenile offenders means Westrip could become eligible for parole after serving 15 years.

Berrigan said Westrip is remorseful for his actions and hopes to someday be released from prison with a chance to become a productive member of society.

Back in October 2016, Westrip killed 80-year-old Mary Shisler at her home near Strafford.

Greene County deputies were called to Shisler’s home on North Farm Road 223 after a neighbor noticed Shisler’s truck was gone and her home might have been burglarized.

Authorities say Westrip was stopped in Shisler’s truck a few hours later in a neighboring county.

According to a probable cause statement in the case, Westrip told deputies he killed an “old lady” and then showed them where he left Shisler’s body.

The medical examiner later testified that Shisler was stabbed in the head, but she likely lived for a few hours after the attack.

Westrip ran away from home on Oct. 21, 2016, after an argument with his parents. The statement says he planned to go to Canada, but he did not think his vehicle would make it.

Westrip allegedly told investigators he drove around until he spotted Shisler’s house and vehicle. He pulled into the driveway.

The statement says Shisler offered to help Westrip get gasoline and let him borrow her phone.

Westrip told investigators that Shisler then suggested they walk to a neighbor’s house to get help, the statement says. When Shisler was in front of him as they walked along Farm Road 223, Westrip told investigators he retrieved his knife and stabbed her in the left temple, the statement says.

According to the statement, Westrip said he lifted Shisler’s body over a fence, dragged her into a field and stabbed her approximately seven more times in the head.

Westrip said he went back to Shisler’s house, stole several items, tried to set the house on fire and then left in her truck, according to the statement.

In addition to the life sentence for murder, Berrigan said Westrip was also sentenced to 10 years for armed criminal action, seven years for tampering with a motor vehicle and four years for attempted arson. All the sentences will run concurrent to each other.

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2022/05/13/republic-man-gets-life-sentence-after-committing-murder-16/9761887002/

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