Marvin Atkins and Ann Marie Clayton received prison terms this week after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2025 killing of Norman Duncan in Cleveland.
Atkins and Clayton, both 36, were sentenced on May 20 following a guilty plea entered on May 14. Atkins received 15 to 20 and a half years in prison while Clayton was given three years. The couple had attacked Duncan after a fight broke out between their son and Duncan's 12-year-old boy on April 14 2025.
Daniel Ash and Amber Murphy pleaded guilty this week to second-degree murder in the starvation death of their 2-year-old son, Charles Wayne Ash.
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A Kentucky couple faces nearly 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to severe child abuse charges. Jerome Norman and Mary Hall locked children in a room and withheld food as punishment. Pike Circuit Court imposed the maximum concurrent sentences on Friday.
Joshua Cottrell has pleaded guilty to murdering his girlfriend and her daughter in Morehead, Kentucky, receiving a life sentence without parole. The 44-year-old changed his plea this week after the bodies of Kayla Danielle Blake and Kennedi Grace McWhorter were discovered in September 2025. He also admitted to tampering with physical evidence.
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Brian Keith Griffin pleaded guilty to murdering his mother and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. The 37-year-old stabbed 55-year-old Tammy Bogue multiple times in their Marshall apartment last November. Griffin called 911 on himself after the attack.