Corrections officer who pretended to be his wife after killing her, daughter and texted surviving kids that 'mommy missed them' headed to prison for over a century

An Alaska corrections serviceman volition walk the remainder of his days down bars aft helium changeable his woman and girl successful the caput and fled the authorities portion pretending to beryllium their parent and wishing a surviving kid a blessed birthday.

Jalooni Blackshear was sentenced to 150 years successful situation connected Tuesday aft helium pleaded blameworthy to the murders of his woman Raechyl Blackshear, 35, and his 14-year-old girl Jayla Blackshear, the Alaska Department of Law said.

The Anchorage Police Department began investigating the suspect connected March 30, 2022, erstwhile Jayla came guardant to impeach her begetter of sexually abusing her. After learning of this, Jalooni Blackshear convinced his woman to bring Jayla backmost to the constabulary section connected April 3, 2022, successful an effort to recant her story.

That was the past clip anyone saw Jayla and her parent alive.

Days later, Jalooni Blackshear fled the authorities and headed east.

"It was aboriginal discovered that aft murdering his woman and child, helium took their phones and pretended to beryllium them, to see telling his surviving children that mommy missed them and to privation 1 a blessed birthday," prosecutors wrote.

After Raechyl Blackshear did not amusement up for a doctor's assignment connected April 15, 2022, cops responded to her location and recovered her and Jayla dormant from gunshot wounds to the caput successful an upstairs bedroom.

Through the victims' phones, cops tracked the fishy to Staten Island, New York, and arrested him.

At sentencing, Superior Court Judge Josie Garton recovered that Jalooni Blackshear subjected his woman and daughters to years of physical and intersexual violence. He terrorized them into silence, and erstwhile Jayla came guardant to constabulary helium killed her and her mother.

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"In handing down the 150 twelvemonth sentence, Judge Garton noted that Blackshear's connection aft the murders, wherever helium impersonated his dormant woman and child, were depraved, cruel and calculated," prosecutors wrote.

After the find of her and her mother's bodies, Jayla Blackshear's classmates and teachers held a memorial astatine a section parkland to grant her.

"She was a fun, outgoing idiosyncratic who ne'er fto anyone enactment her down, and she ever tried to marque everyone other astir her smile," her person Jalysa Osborne told section NBC affiliate KTUU.

Her teacher Shannon Velez didn't privation to judge her pupil was dead.

"I kept telling myself it truly wasn't her. It truly wasn't. It's not her, it's not her," Velez told the TV station.