Sentenced: 14YO Alianna Defreeze Kidnapped, Raped & Murdered By R S O

[Sugar Cookie]

Opening statements were Thursday morning for the man accused of murdering Alianna DeFreeze.

Christopher Whitaker, 44, is charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping and rape in the brutal murder of the 14-year-old about one year ago.

On Jan. 26, 2017, Alianna was kidnapped on her way to school. She was last seen getting off an RTA bus. Her mother reported her missing when she learned the girl didn't show up for school.

There was an all-out search for the teen, but three days later, her body was found in an abandoned home.

DNA from the crime scene led detectives to Whitaker, a registered sex offender. He pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

During opening statements, prosecutors said Alianna was still alive when she suffered many of her injuries. Whitaker confessed to detectives in a recorded interview, which will be played for the jury.

http://fox8.com/2018/02/01/opening-statements-expected-today-in-alianna-defreeze-murder-trial/

 

[Dead Stephanie]

She was a pretty girl, fucking POS should fry for this.

 

[SchruteFarms]

Sounds like more gruesome details to come

 

[Jellybean1711]

The sick fucko tortured her it sounds like.

 

[Sejanus]

Vivisect him

 

[Keepalowprofile]

. DNA from the crime scene led detectives to Whitaker, a registered sex offender. . He pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

He should get the DP
Edit
It would have been great for Alianna if he'd been given the DP the first time around.
Poor girl.

 

[CbabyRKO]

I wonder if this was her regular route and this sick fucker had been stalking her until he got the nerve to do what he did.
Or did he just see her and take advantage?
I used to catch the bus all over Dallas. From the age of 6 til I left for good at 22.
It was safe for me even tho bad things did happen. You never thought that you would step off one day and disappear into the void.
This guy needs to die as slowly as possible.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A sex offender is facing the death penalty after being convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl.

Christopher Whitaker, 45, was convicted on Tuesday of the murder of teenager Alianna Defreeze whose body was found in an abandoned home in Cleveland, Ohio, in January 2017.

Whitaker, who pleaded not guilty, kidnapped the teenager from a bus stop as she waited for the bus to school.

He took her to the abandoned home where he raped and beat her then stabbed her to death, leaving her body inside.

While she was still alive, he used a collection of tools including an electric drill to inflict horrific injuries on her.


DNA evidence collected at the scene led police to Whitaker.

He confessed to the killing and told police his drug addiction caused him to do it.

At the time of the killing, Whitaker was high on cocaine.

During the trial, his lawyers did not argue with prosecutors' chain of events but they said he should not be held responsible for the murder because of his state of mind at the time.

On Tuesday, a jury rejected that argument and convicted him.

They will now decide his sentence.

At the time of the killing, Whitaker had already served four years behind bars for the rape and stabbing of another woman in 2005.

That woman was not killed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5387921/Sex-offender-convicted-rape-murder-girl-14.html

 

[Dead Stephanie]

 

[roadsidehorror]

I've done my fair share of coke and it never caused me to do some shit like that.

 

[Alf]

During the trial, his lawyers did not argue with prosecutors' chain of events but they said he should not be held responsible for the murder because of his state of mind at the time.

Nope. Nope. And nope.

Voluntary intoxication is not a defense.

--Al

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A sex offender has been sentenced to death in Ohio for kidnapping, torturing, raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in a horrific attack.

Christopher Whitaker, 45, will spend the rest of his days on death row after the judge followed the jury's recommendation for the horrific slaying of Alianna Defreeze in Januaury, 2017.

Whitaker was found guilty March 13 of aggravated murder and charges including kidnapping and rape in Alianna DeFreeze's death.

Whitaker, who pleaded not guilty, kidnapped the teenager from a bus stop as she waited for the bus to school.

He took her to an abandoned home in Cleveland where he raped and beat her then stabbed her to death, leaving her body inside.

'He snatched a branch off our family tree and our lives will never be the same,' said Wytonya DeFreeze, the victim's stepmother at Whitaker's sentencing on Monday. 'She had dreams and aspirations and he took all that away from her.'

'I don't believe he'll have any remorse until he suffers like my daughter suffered,' said Donnesha Cooper, Alianna's mother. 'He just snuffed out a really bright light in the world because of his own selfishness,' Cooper said. 'I appreciate the jury's recommendation, but that's too good for him,' Cooper said through tears. '…I will not let his monstrous heart consume my life, because my daughter would want me to live my life and be happy.'

'I can see the evil that's in him and we have to tell everybody, this is what evil looks like,' Alianna's grandmother said. 'He will not torture anyone else again. …I cannot forgive this man yet. I'm still in pain.'

Damon DeFreeze, her father, spoke last. His frustration mounted as he told Friedland that he tried to warn Alianna about predators like Whitaker. He turned toward Whitaker, who was flanked by five courtroom security officers.

'Excuse me so I can look at this b**** a** dude, ' DeFreeze said. 'It takes a real monster to take a child who's going on the way happily to school. It happens too often.'

A death sentence was not the outcome Alianna's family wanted, they said.

'We preferred life without the possibility of parole, but we respect the judge's decision,' Alianna's father said. 'It's not over, it will never be over.'

Authorities say Alianna was beaten and stabbed and the South Euclid man's DNA matched evidence.

He used a collection of tools including an electric drill to inflict horrific injuries on her.

He confessed to the killing and told police his drug addiction caused him to do it.

During Monday's sentencing, the judge also added a 48-year sentence that is separate from his death sentence for his convictions of aggravated burglary, rape, felonious assault, obstruction of justice and gross abuse of a corpse charges.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ted-teens-murder-sentenced-death-penalty.html

 

[lithiumgirl]

During Monday's sentencing, the judge also added a 48 year sentence that is separate from his death
sentence for his convictions of aggravated burglary, rape, felonious assault, obstruction of justice and gross abuse of a corpse charges.

Give this man a standing ovation ...

'We preferred life without the possibility of parole, but we respect the judge's decision,' Alianna's father said. 'It's not over, it will never be over.'

Its okay to hate this man, Dad ... Its okay to want him dead. <3

 

[CbabyRKO]

Even if they don't kill him the fact that he will be spending the rest of his life in a cage for 23 hrs of everyday is what he deserves.
I am so angry at this. He never should have been on the streets ffs.

 

[JackBurton]

4 years for rape and stabbing? The fuck?

Often times it is safe to assume victims in sex assault cases perhaps didnt play ball, didnt want to testify, thus leaving prosecutors without much to work with when it comes to locking fuckers up.

But if the woman was also stabbed? C"mon, you lose any he said, she said, or any type of mitigating circumstance if it's that violent. How did he only get 4 years?

Sounds like the State of Ohio failed to do their job to protect the public, shameful. THey share guilt for this girls death, fact.

The prosecutor in that case needs to talk, needs to explain why a 4 year fucking plea deal was the best they could do or in any way something that resembled justice. Outrageous.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Give this man a standing ovation ...




Its okay to hate this man, Dad ... Its okay to want him dead. <3

I hate him too.

 

[lithiumgirl]

Sounds like the State of Ohio failed to do their job to protect the public, shameful.

Yep the prosecution failed ... and this is why i like the ... then what happened, part of stories, cause I see this girl as a hero kind of ... ultimately this guys opportunities to hurt people stopped with her.

 

[MildlyMedicated]

May, he spend every second his eyes are closed being tortured, by the girls vengeful spirit!

 

[Sejanus]

Inmates.
HAVE AT HIM!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The Supreme Court of Ohio today affirmed the death sentence of a Cleveland man who abducted and murdered a 14-year-old girl on her way to school.


The Supreme Court unanimously upheld two of three capital convictions of Christopher Whitaker based on the 2017 rape and kidnapping of the girl prior to killing her. The Court dismissed Whitaker’s conviction and death sentence based on aggravated burglary.

The Court was divided 6-1 on one aspect of Whitaker’s appeal, concerning the jury's inability to hear his offer to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Writing for the Court majority, Justice Patrick F. Fischer explained that Whitaker forcibly entered a vacant house with the victim, identified in court records as “A.D..,” and then raped, tortured, and murdered her with a power drill and other tools. Justice Fischer stated these “are horrific crimes” that support the imposition of the death penalty.

Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and Justices Sharon L. Kennedy, R. Patrick DeWine, Michael P. Donnelly, and Melody Stewart joined Justice Fischer’s opinion.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Jennifer Brunner disagreed with the majority’s approval of the trial court's ruling to refuse allowing the jury to consider Whitaker’s offer to plead guilty as a mitigating factor. Justice Brunner wrote that while the jury should have been allowed to consider it, she agreed with the majority’s conclusion to affirm the death sentence.

Death Penalty Affirmed for Cleveland Man Who Killed Teen on Her Way to School

www.courtnewsohio.gov

 

[Sugar Cookie]

I doubt the jury would have been swayed due to the brutality he subjected Alianna to.