Killer Daughter Beat, Stabbed Mom to Death to Cover Up College Failures

moment right after it was some kind of expulsion of air as if someone had been knocked out of the air, well, um, I'd always heard that expression of the air being hit, you know, having the air knocked out of you, but I didn't, that's what it sounded like actually, um um, and then several more repeated. thuds, no, I don't know how to describe the sound, oh, and okay, and you and Mr. Frasier could hear this from the other end of the phone, from the other end it was on speaker, right, yeah, did you hear anything ? communication during these hits just the screaming um and this um and then we were both on the phone saying you know what's happening some of what's happening is are you okay? what can we do?

Need help? What's going on? Yes, can you describe your way of thinking? At this moment, I mean, it definitely felt like someone was being attacked. The call was disconnected and the administrators were cut off after approximately six or seven continuous knocks and screams, they called again and received no answer until the third attempt, when someone answered 12415 just 3 and a half minutes after the attack began one minute before the Steve's last text message to his wife Frasier, shaken by what they had just heard, managed to ask Brenda: are you there? a voice responded. Yes, this is Brenda, but the voice was not Brenda, the voice was Sydney Powell.

Now, Miss Gaff, did she recognize that voice on the line? Yeah, okay, it was Brenda Poell, it wasn't Brenda, who did you recognize that voice? I was sure it was. Sydney, both Dean Fraser and I looked at each other and shook our heads and said no, that's not Brenda um and he then said, "Not me, Sydney, I think it's you, this isn't Brenda and What happened next, the phone went dead, okay and Miss Gaffney, what did you do next? We called the Acan police at that time. I had the phone number and the address, so we called the Aran police and indicated that I felt there was some guy. situation in this house and that they needed to send someone right away, they were talking on the phone and there was a lot of yelling so he couldn't really tell if it was like a physical fight, but he just heard like there was a lot of yelling and screaming and then he tried. call back twice and there was no um uh there was no call back in a single moment a peaceful family home had become a crime scene posing as her mother wasn't the only one in Sydney In an attempt to

cover

up what What had happened after the disastrous phone call, he set out to prepare the crime scene.

He broke a window to make it look like there had been a robbery which would line up with the story he would later tell the police. that there had been a robbery and his mother had told him to flee the house, but this scene was clearly staged; There was blood on the outside of the door near the broken window, suggesting that it must have been broken only after the crime had been committed after murdering his mother, she coldly and callously took steps to

cover

up her own guilt to 12:51. Steve Powell received a call from a detective friend who had heard that police units were being sent to the Poell home.

Steve immediately called his house and spoke to Sydney, who became hysterical when she heard the police were on the way and repeated the story of the robbery. Steve could only wait helplessly at work while his family life fell apart at home. Police initially found Sydney hysterical. This hysteria soon evaporated, however, she became catatonic lying on the floor. On the floor in the fetal position as the enormity of what she had done began to sink in, there was a cast iron skillet on the floor of the master bedroom next to a bloody steak knife. These common household implements, no doubt used by Brenda herself to cook family meals, had been used as a weapon against her as police examined the scene.

The series of events that Steve and the university administrators only glimpsed over the phone unfolded. became horribly clear, forensic pathologists concluded that Brenda Powell had died as a result of multiple blunt force trauma and slashing injuries. Sydney had hit her mother several times in the head with the heavy cast iron skillet, then grabbed a steak knife and, in a frenzy, ,

stabbed

his mother repeatedly in the neck at least 23 times. The cuts and bruises on Brenda's face, arms, and hands suggest that she had attempted to fend off Sydney Sydney, her beloved

daughter

, whose academic

failures

and emotional turmoil had been kept secret until now.

The revelation of this secret caused Sydney's eruption and Brenda's tragic

death

. No one denies that Sydney killed her mother at trial, however, her lawyers do. He maintained that the attack had occurred in the middle of a psychotic break, meaning that he could not understand that his actions were wrong, as evidence they pointed to his catatonic state after the murder and also suggested that his continued denial of his own reality that he had been The expulsion from the university was actually evidence of schizophrenia and three psychology experts were brought in to testify about this fact. Sydney had told one of them that she didn't remember the attack at all.

Her last memory of her mother, she said, was sitting on the couch. with her mother while comforting Sydney Sydney then got up and went to the basement said she didn't remember anything else until in the hospital after the attack the prosecution pointed to Sydney's methodical staging of the scene as evidence of her mental fitness at the time he called another clinical psychologist as a rebuttal witness, who testified that he had diagnosed Sydney with borderline personality traits and an unspecified anxiety disorder. Psychologists concluded that Sydney was mixing it up by feigning mental incapacity to pervert the course of justice.

The jury finally agreed on September 20, 2023. Sydney Powell was found guilty on all charges: intentional murder, felony murder, extra battery, and tampering with evidence. She murdered her mother and attempted to cover it up on September 28, 2023. Sydney Poell was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. She will be 38 years old. the moment she is eligible for parole miss friend, is there anything you want to tell me at this moment? Okay, thank you very much, first of all to the victims, family and friends. I am so sorry for your loss here, I can't imagine it. Because of what has happened.

I have received and read all the letters that have been sent to me. I have considered the evidence presented in evidence at trial, the statements of counsel and all information before me at this time. based on the facts and circumstances of this case and in consideration of the relevant factual factors of the sentence, including severity and repeat offense, and the application of the minimum sanction that the court has determined will protect the public and punish the offender without imposing an unnecessary burden on state and local resources. the court imposes the following sentence for the first count, ma'am, I sentence you to an indefinite sentence of 15 years to life in the Ohio Department of Corrections, for the fourth count of the indictment, I sentence you to 3 years in the Ohio Department of Corrections Ohio, those two sentences will run concurrently and not consecutive to each other, Madam, I understand that you have the right to appeal this decision and that the notice of appeal must be filed when, within 30 days of the issuance of the sentence, your lawyer has indicated to me that you do not have the funds to hire a lawyer to represent you in the appeal, is that correct? and you want me to appoint the Council to represent you.

Yeah, okay, I'll do it, we'll try to do it before we get out of the Summit County Jail, uh, ma'am. I won't find her I won't assess your legal costs in this matter, good luck to you, miss friend, thank you, we have suspended Sydney's efforts to hide her own academic

failures

and her paranoid fear of disappointing her parents. her. Sydney only derailed her life further. and caused an unimaginable tragedy that devastated her family. What do you think about this tragic story? Do you think Sydney's destiny was Justice? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below on the decoder.

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