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Sentenced: 3mo's injuries were so extensive he would've been “inconsolable until he became unconscious”

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December 12th 2018

Court records show Zachary Atwood, 31, now faces a charge of capital murder in the case.

The state medical examiner's office said the 3-month-old stepson died from blunt force trauma to the head in May 2016.

Prosecuting Attorney Luke Ferguson said after speaking with witnesses, the charge for capital murder seemed more appropriate than first-degree murder.
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February 18, 2018

A judge in Faulkner county ruled to allow crime scene photos to be entered as evidence in the trial against Zachary Atwood, who is accused of killing his 3-month-old stepson.

Atwood was arrested in June 2016 on suspicion of manslaughter of Mitchell Goss after he stated in an interview that he put Mitchell in an infant bed after sitting on him.

Following an autopsy, the medical examiner said it was “unlikely” the infant’s injuries were sustained from someone sitting on his head. The reports showed the infant “suffered bilateral skull fractures and bleeding on the brain into the scalp and around the brain.” It also stated the infant's injuries were so extensive that it would have been “inconsolable until he became unconscious.”
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July 22nd 2016

On May 31, emergency personnel were called to a residence in Guy-Perkins after a three month old was discovered unresponsive in his crib.

The three month old was found unresponsive and not breathing by his grandmother.

The baby was taken to a hospital and later died.

During a second interview, Atwood admitted to police he sat on his stepson while he was lying on the sofa.
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The monster did something brutal to this baby and than placed the baby in his crib for the grandmother to find.

I think his plan was to let them think the baby died of crib death and when that did not work he was going to say it was an accident that he sat on the baby.
 
The mother is just as worthless as the baby killer. The mom testified that her and the step-penis were trying to have sex and the penis was unable to perform. 3mo Mitchell Atwood was crying during this time and the step penis went to check on the child.

The mother admitted on the stand that she, the penis and his mama smoked meth in the apartment and she was worried that the penis did not wash his hands and exposed the infant to the drugs.

Baby Mitchell showed to suffer from several injuries including:


  • Multiple blunt force trauma areas.
  • A skull fracture.
  • Cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Cerebral contusion.
  • Contusions on his scalp, nose, an arm and a foot.
  • An older subdural hematoma.
  • Retinal hemorrhages.
Moments before Craig took to the stand late Tuesday, deputy prosecutor warned family members in the audience that the testimony would get graphic. All but two family members left the gallery as autopsy photos graphically detailing the baby’s injuries were displayed before the court.

With each photo that pinpointed and documented the baby’s many injuries, Craig explained how such injury could occur and the process of examining such injuries.

The way hemorrhages appeared in the baby’s eyes and how the brain was bruised “suggest some sort of acceleration and deceleration,” he said.

In his testimony, Craig also said the injuries the baby sustained likely would have occurred “at least one day” prior and that the baby was dead longer than the time frame Zachary, who was the last to see the baby alive, told authorities.

When a photo previously shown as evidence in the case showed what appeared to be bruising on the baby’s neck and back, Craig said that would have been livor mortis, which is a discoloration on the skin after blood pools to the lowest part of the body.
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ME: Death not an accident

An Arkansas State Crime Lab medical examiner during the second of a three-day capital murder trial said that the 3-month-old victim did not die
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A jury of seven men and five women deliberated for about two hours and 15 minutes on Wednesday before finding Zachary Lynn Atwood guilty of capital murder in his 3-month-old stepson’s 2016 death.

“I’m very grateful for the jury. They had to go through part of what I go through and feel every day,” the late Mitchell Goss’s mother, Michelle “Sunnie” Thomas, told the Log Cabin after learning Atwood would spend the rest of his life behind bars. “This won’t bring my baby back, but it brings him and my family some peace.”

Defense attorney Lynn Plemmons in his closing statements said it wasn’t fair that Mitchell was born “into a pack of meth users” and also that he believed the baby’s death was an accident.

“Mitchell lived a short life and in horrible circumstances,” Plemmons said shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday as he began to point out that Atwood “was truthful” during his second round of questioning because he no longer was high on meth, referring back to much of Tuesday’s testimony. A large part of Tuesday was spent watching Atwood’s interrogation videos. While portions of the videos were omitted following an evening hearing before Circuit Judge Clawson Jr. regarding the references to domestic violence and alleged animal abuse, the footage showed indicated Atwood was high on meth.

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Jury: Zachary Atwood is guilty as charged in 3-month-old's murder

A jury of seven men and five women deliberated for about two hours and 15 minutes on Wednesday before finding Zachary Lynn Atwood guilty of capital murder
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The piece of shit mother is already remarried and the article discusses how she has turned her life around.

The mom's testimony.
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Mother's plea for help ignored, turns to horror after child dies

Mitchell Goss's mother was told at least twice by Zachary Atwood, who was her husband at the time, there was no reason to take the baby to the hospital or
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