The jury deliberated for just three hours on Friday before finding Amanda D. Carmack, of Gas City, guilty of murder, strangulation, neglect of a dependent resulting in death and domestic battery resulting in death to a person under 14.
플래시백: MISSIN INDIANA GIRL, 10, FOUND DEAD IN TRASH BAG; STEPMOTHER CHARGED IN MURDER
Carmack initially reported 10-year-old Skylea Carmack missing on Aug. 31, 2019, hours after the child was already dead. After a four-day search for Skylea, Carmack confessed to the killing at a police station.
Skylea Carmack, 왼쪽 사진, was found on Sept. 4, 2019, strangled to death and stashed in plastic trash bags in a shed behind the family home in Gas City. 금요일에, Amanda Carmack, 권리, was convicted in the child’s murder. (Grant County Jail / Indiana State Police)
Investigators had 말했다 they then discovered Skylea’s body stuffed in a plastic garbage bag and hidden inside a shed behind the family’s Gas City home. A pair of colored pants were tied around her neck, 그만큼 Indianapolis Star 당시보고.
Carmack first went on trial in November, but it ended with a mistrial after several people involved in the case tested positive for COVID-19.
The jury was scheduled to reconvene on Monday to decide whether Carmack should be sentenced to life in prison without parole, WANE-TV 신고.
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