Woman Condemned

Thirteen days after being brutally beaten and set on fire, 83-year-old Dot Dow finally succumbed to her injuries. Injuries she sustained at the hands of 17-year-old Mina Ellery. The crime occurred on Aug. 4, 2016. The victim was beaten brutally. Both her arms were broken. She was doused with lighter fluid and she set on fire. She died 13 days later. Even though Ellery was sentenced to life in prison, she is eligible for parole after serving a minimum of 30 years behind bars. She received a life sentence for the murder and 20-year sentences each for armed robbery, home invasion and aggravated battery.  Angel Harmon, and two other people are also charged in Dow’s murder. Harmon drove Justin Peirce Grady, 38, Cortavious Deshun Heard, 18, Mina Christine Ellery, 17, and Angel Latrice Harmon, 17, to Dow’s home in Lone Oak. Harmon and Ellery went to the door and talked with Dow while Cameron entered the house from another entrance and took Dow’s purse.   Ellery pleaded guilty to

Erica Newsom beat her 11-year-old daughter, Kay-lea, to death. She had regularly been abusing the girl. Her autopsy showed signs of malnutrition, among other atrocities. She had her dead daughters body in the trunk of her car on the way to New York where the father lives, when she raced off the side of the road and crashed. Witnesses reported seeing her retrieve her daughters body from the car and throw it over an embankment. The girls father said Erica had been texting him the whole trip as if everything was fine. When police came to the scene of the wreck, she was standing beside the body of her daughter, with a comforter spread over her. They took her in for questioning where she admitted to abusing and killing the girl before loading her in the trunk and driving across several states from West Virginia. Erica has given no motive or explanation. She will most likely get a life sentence but the D.A. could go for the death penalty.