Keri Murphy and Rebecca Keller

The pair have been convicted of the brutal stabbing death of her mother, Mary Ann Murphy in Texas. She was sixteen and tried as an adult. Rebecca plead guilty while Keri went to trial.

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You can write to Keri at:

Keri Murphy 02139055
Hilltop Unit
1500 State School Road
Gatesville, TX 76598-2996

You can write to Rebecca Keller at:

Rebecca Keller  02139051
Hobby Unit
742 FM 712
Marlin, TX 76661

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Tessie McFarland and Joshua Maxwell

Josuha Maxwell

Tessie McFarland and Joshua Maxwell were from Indiana and are known for having a "Bonnie and Clyde" style crime spree that included murder. Joshua now calls his actions senseless shortly before his execution date. He was convicted of the murders of Bexar County sheriff's Sgt. Rudolfo "Rudy" Lopes II,, and Indiana native Robby Bott and sentenced to death. Lopes was dumped without regard and Bott was kidnapped, tortured and found burnt in the trunk of a car. Once arrested, Maxwell admitted to the killings and states there are other crimes associated with the couple over the course of their cross country spree.

Joshua was executed March 11, 2010. He was the father of three children.

Tessie McFarland was convicted of Capital Murder and sentenced to life in prison. They were featured on Oxygen's show, Killer Couples (see clip below). She is in contact with friends and family while incarcerated and received a degree. She genuinely seems like she has turned her life around and helps younger inmates recognize when abuse is an issue in a relationship.


You can write to Tessa at:

Tessa McFarland, #01319467
Crain Unit
1401 State School Road
Gatesville, TX 76599-2999

Charity Johnson, Texas

Charity Johnson enrolled at New Life Christian School in Longview posing as a teenager, when she was actually thirty four years old.

She was arrested for giving the police a false name and birthdate when they were called to the apartment where she was staying. In total, she was charged with three counts of failure to identify. She either plead or was found guilty, sentenced to 85 days in jail and fines and court costs, which she appears to have paid.

 

According to Buzzfeed, "For years, Charity had targeted devout, maternal types with regrets and a weakness for lost, young souls. Women all over Texas, as well as North Carolina, New Jersey, and Maryland, said they had combed Charity’s hair, helped her with her homework, and given her a bed to sleep in. Up until her arrest, Charity kept in close contact with her collection of online “mothers,” from a housekeeper in Nevada to a pastor in Ohio, whom she found through Facebook searches (“pastor” + “teen girls” + “hope”)." The same article implied she was scamming people for love, not money.

Clearly, she's a very damaged person that Child Protective Services failed horribly. She has no newer charges and is not in custody of the state of Texas.

Amber Guyger Address

Obviously, Amber has been convicted. The jury and the grand jury got it wrong in my opinion. Based on the evidence presented at trial, she was guilty of manslaughter which carries a sentence of two to twenty years in the state of Texas. She is the poster child of why you should NEVER speak to police without an attorney (and I'm pro-law enforcement....)

This was the perfect storm of circumstances and it is highly likely a similar murder will never take place again. Another police officer testified with his training he would not have taken cover if he confronted someone in his home and would have taken the same actions. Remember, Amber believed she was in her own apartment. Half  the people living on the third and fourth floors had gone to the wrong door at some point. Even their own crime scene photographer could not identify the floor when presented with a picture of the entry door from the parking garage!

I believe the verdict and sentence is a good example of how juries compromise. It has been said in the press they decided in under five minutes on guilty, but I don't believe that. I think some people were holding out for manslaughter and the murder people said if they relented they would give her an easier sentence. Juries are wild and unpredictable which is why lawyers don't like to go to trial.

As far as the wild rumors - ie she lodged several noise complaints about him, they had dated etc., There was zero evidence of any of that entered at trial and yet people persist in spreading these lies. Now Joshua Brown is dead because of her! She was convicted and sentenced. His testimony (which is preserved on video tape) was not pivotal to her conviction. It really wasn't. I'm shocked there has not been riots in Dallas.

If you would like to write to Amber, you can do so at:

Amber Guyger, #02283505
Mountain View
2305 Ransom Road
Gatesville, TX 76528

Kathryn Louise Preston, Ditched and Desperate Deadly Women

Kathryn was featured on Discovery ID's Deadly women titled Ditched and Desperate.  She was born March 14, 1968 and is presently 51 years old.

Her primary means of income was to bear children to a variety of men (five children with four fathers) and receiving child support from the various fathers.

At the age of 43, she convinced Jose Mario Hernandez, 23 that they were married via a ceremony, although it was not a legal ceremony. When he choose to leave her, she beat him in the head while he was sleeping with a brick. When he failed to die, she suffocated him with a pillow and then set his body on fire. Fifteen and half hour later, she contacted 911 whom she told she was a battered woman and killed him in self defense.

This is tragic for the Hernandez family and her five children, though one must wonder if they better off without her. She had attempted to get pregnant by her "husband", however she was no longer fertile at that time. This would have caused financial stress since her oldest children were no longer eligible for child support.

After great deliberation the jury found her guilty of murder and rejected her claims of abuse. She was subsequently sentenced to 45 years in prison.
 
You can write to her at:


Kathryn Preston, #02079584
Craine Unit
 1401 State School Road
Gatesville, TX 76599-2999

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