Sentenced: 10YO Ashley Johnson-Barr Has Been Found Dead, Peter Wilson Arrested

[Sugar Cookie]

A 10-year-old girl has been found dead Friday, authorities said, more than a week after she was reported missing in a remote Inupiat Eskimo town on Alaska's northwestern coast.

Alaska State Troopers said Ashley Johnson-Barr's remains were found east of Kotzebue.

Authorities have arrested 41-year-old Peter Wilson of Kotzebue in connection with her disappearance.

FBI spokeswoman Staci Pellessier said Wilsonis facing charges of making false statements to a federal agent.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ontinues-missing-10-year-old-Alaska-girl.html

 

[Dead Stephanie]

Awwww she was such a cutie,

 

[Sejanus]

TIL America still uses the term Eskimo.

I really hope this child didn't suffer, but figure that is wishful thinking.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

How sad.

Her father Walter Scotty Barr had made increasingly desperate pleas for her return on social media, writing: 'I'm broken without u here.'

From the link.

 

[MildlyMedicated]

Why? Just Why? What evil lives in the heart of an animal that can chose to harm a child!
May she rest in peace.

 

[Sassedame]

You just KNOW as remote a place they lived, they probably thought they were far from this kind of evil. RIP little angel.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Sep 25, 2018

An Alaska man was charged Monday in the death of a 10-year-old girl whose remains were found more than a week after she was reported missing.

State prosecutors charged Peter Wilson of Kotzebue with first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual abuse of a minor and tampering with evidence Monday in connection with the death of Ashley Johnson-Barr. An autopsy revealed signs of strangulation and sexual abuse, and DNA evidence also linked him to the crime, according to prosecutors.

Wilson, 41, pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges of making false statements as FBI agents and others searched for Ashley in Kotzebue, a remote Inupiat town on Alaska’s northwestern coast.

The girl disappeared Sept. 6. Her remains were found eight days later in rugged tundra accessible only by a four-wheeler or on foot.

Wilson took a cellphone from Ashley and lied when he said he had found it on the ground, according to an indictment filed last week from a federal grand jury. The indictment also says Wilson lied about knowing the girl and using a four-wheeler the day she vanished.

Ashley had her cellphone with her when she was last seen playing with friends at a park. The phone was found later that day in the pocket of a jacket belonging to Wilson, a woman named in an FBI affidavit only by the initials of JJ told authorities. The woman said Wilson often stayed at her home.

Wilson told authorities that he found the phone on the ground about a half-mile from the park.

On the afternoon the girl went missing, Wilson also disappeared with a four-wheeler for about two hours, according to authorities. The FBI affidavit said the girl’s body was found on tundra outside Kotzebue, in an area concealed by thick alder and willow brush.

After the girl disappeared, Kotzebue residents helped search for her, holding vigils at the park where she was last seen. Similar prayer vigils were held across Alaska

https://www.wfla.com/national/alaska-man-charged-with-murder-in-10-year-old-girls-slaying/1473202201

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Jan 24, 2020

Experts testified Friday that the man accused of killing 10-year old Ashley Johnson-Barr in Kotzebue had poor results on his competency tests, but that the results of those tests are inconclusive when it comes to determining if he's competent to stand trial.

Forty-one-year old Peter Wilson is accused of kidnapping, sexually abusing and murdering Johnson-Barr. He also faces charges in federal court for lying to a federal investigator.

Barr's disappearance in September 2018 prompted an eight-day search that ended with the discovery of her body on the tundra, more than two miles from the playground where she was last seen.

The objective was to see if Wilson was capable of understanding what he did, but also to see if he was ‘malingering,’ which Dr. Low defined as the intentional production of exaggerated or false psychological symptoms with the intention of a secondary gain. They were trying to see if Wilson was faking psychological damage in order to receive more lenient consequences.

Low described five tests used to gauge Wilson’s comprehension, memory, legal knowledge, and whether he understood what he was being charged with.

“Three of the tests are designed to test effort, and effort is a factor in malingering,” Low said.

Low testified that she found Wilson was a ‘poor historian,’ showing signs of having a bad memory. Part of her work also included looking at his school records, which showed he didn't receive special education until later in high school.

She also said that Wilson reported seeing hallucinations and hearing voices, mostly related to an uncle who had molested him as a child. However, while he was at the Seattle facility where the tests were conducted, he didn't show severe signs of those symptoms.

At the facility, Wilson chose to be in a restrictive unit, Low said, in which he was essentially on lockdown with a roommate 23 hours a day. "The officers up there do rounds every 30 minutes and we did not receive any reports of unusual behavior."

Prosecutor Jenna Gruenstein told Low that Wilson had tried to cover up his crime in multiple ways, and asked if that showed that he was competent. Low explained that incompetent people can come up with cover-up stories, though how sophisticated they are is a different story.

Toft, Wilson's defense attorney, called a second doctor, Dr. Kaichen McRae, who reviewed the same information and the reports from Dr. Low. McRae testified that she only redid the memory test on Wilson, and found very similar results.

Both doctors said in court that it appeared as though Wilson was either not trying on the tests, or trying to perform badly on them.

“I was not able to reach a final conclusion on Mr. Wilson’s competency,” McRae said, “I got the impression that Mr. Wilson was not entirely forthright and effortful after the course of my evaluation of his competency. Because of that, all of the information I have related to the competency that’s available becomes questionable.”

Competency tests bring inconclusive results, doctors say of man accused of murdering 10-year-old Kotzebue girl

Doctors say there are a number of reasons the competency tests

www.ktuu.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Whether he is competent for trial does not matter he competently killed a child - let him rot in prison.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Peter Vance Wilson, a man accused of kidnapping, sexually abusing and killing 10-year-old Ashley Johnson-Barr in Kotzebue in 2018, pleaded guilty to first degree murder and first degree sexual abuse of a minor Monday.

Johnson-Barr disappeared Sept. 6, 2018, prompting a citywide, multi-agency search. After eight days, her body was discovered on the tundra more than 2 miles from a playground where she was last seen. Investigators found extensive evidence of sexual assault, based on the medical examiner’s Sept. 15 autopsy, with cause of death labeled as asphyxia due to obstruction of her airway and constriction of her neck.

After Wilson was charged in the killing, relatives told a reporter with the Anchorage Daily News that he had begun a pattern of rape and sexual abuse of young girls decades earlier, and had abused them when they were children.


As part of the plea, Wilson admitted to all conduct alleged in the initial charges and also four statutory aggravating factors to be considered in his sentencing: deliberate cruelty towards the victim, targeting a vulnerable victim, most serious conduct within the class of offense and similar prior conduct involving one or more other victims.

Wilson’s sentencing is set for Sept. 21. The State of Alaska and Wilson entered into a plea agreement prior to Wilson’s change of plea. If the court accepts the plea agreement, Wilson will be sentenced to a total sentence of 198 years with 99 years suspended.

Kotzebue man pleads guilty to 2018 murder and sex abuse of 10-year-old Ashley Johnson-Barr

Ashley Johnson Barr disappeared from a Kotzebue playground in 2018. Her body was discovered on the tundra more than 2 miles away after an eight-day, multi-agency search.

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[Sevens My Charm]

Bye bye…

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Peter Vance Wilson was sentenced to 99 years in prison Tuesday in the death of Ashley Johnson-Barr, a 10-year-old whose 2018 disappearance captured national attention.

Jenna Gruenstein, an attorney with the state Office of Special Prosecutions, argued for the sentence Tuesday, Alaska's News Source reported.

“This is one of the most serious cases that I’ll probably see in my career,” she said.

Wilson’s attorney, Jessica Toft, cried while agreeing with the sentence. She said visiting the playground named in honor of Johnson-Barr showed how the girl's death had affected the community.

Wilson apologized: “I wish I could take back what I did to Ashley. I am very, very sorry.”

The Alaska Department of Law said Wilson was sentenced to 198 years, with 99 years suspended. State Attorney General Treg Taylor in a statement said the sentencing "shows that law enforcement in this state will bring to justice those who commit violent crime and sexual abuse in rural Alaska by working collaboratively and with the community. Hopefully this result brings some sense of closure to Ashley Johnson-Barr’s family and the people of Kotzebue.”

Johnson-Barr disappeared on Sept. 6, 2018. Her remains were found days later in rugged tundra accessible only by a four-wheeler or on foot.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alaska/articles/2021-09-21/alaska-man-sentenced-to-99-years-in-death-of-kotzebue-girl