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Left to right: Frank Kennedy and Anthony Mistretta (St. Mary’s Police Department).
Two Georgia men volition walk the remainder of their lives down bars for the horrific murder of a stateless antheral recovered beaten, hog-tied, and anchored to the bottommost of a lake, authorities announced this week.
In July 2023, John Andrew Mamph was each of 29 years aged and surviving astatine an encampment successful St. Mary’s — a tiny municipality located conscionable northbound of the borderline with Florida — erstwhile helium was attacked successful a distant country known to locals arsenic “Gilligan’s Island.”
During the attack, a ample radical of astatine slightest 3 and arsenic galore arsenic 4 radical took portion successful the beating, Peach State authorities allege.
“The defendants past transported Mamph to a adjacent vessel ramp wherever they enactment him successful a vessel and took him retired connected a lake,” the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney said successful a press release. “While Mamph was inactive tied up, the defendants past weighed him down with aggregate weights and dumped him into the water truthful helium would drown.”
Earlier this month, Frank Kennedy, 56, and Anthony Mistretta, 29, were convicted by a assemblage implicit their roles successful Mamph’s murder.
In sum, the defendants were each convicted of 1 number of malice murder, felony murder, mendacious imprisonment, kidnapping, and artillery implicit the brutal slaying. Kennedy was besides convicted of aggravated assault.
The brace were instantly sentenced aft being convicted.
Mamph’s assemblage was recovered sometime aft noon the time pursuing his execution by a section national who was jet-skiing with his family.
“The national observed the submerged assemblage of Mr. Mamph successful the wide water, returned to shore, and called 911,” prosecutors said.
The find was grim.
In a sense, the man’s assemblage was not hidden, but rather, paraded.
Mamph was recovered tied to a cinder artifact astatine the bottommost of the water adjacent an “aluminum extortion flashing and besides a achromatic container afloat of rocks tied together,” according to a constabulary study obtained by Jacksonville, Florida-based NBC affiliate WTLV and Orange Park, Florida-based ABC affiliate WJXX, who collectively broadcast arsenic First Coast News.
In comments to police, the antheral who recovered the assemblage said helium could “smell death” arsenic helium approached the victim, First Coast News reported.
That aforesaid night, a task unit of local, county, and authorities instrumentality enforcement made their archetypal arrests “based connected eyewitness statements of the horrific crimes,” prosecutors said.
A full of 5 radical were charged successful narration to the murder.
Before Kennedy and Mistretta went to trial, each the different defendants pleaded guilty.
Debra Leane Dougherty, 38, pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of felony execution and was sentenced to beingness successful situation with the anticipation of parole aft serving astatine slightest 30 years.
Bernice Rose McGuire, 27, pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate aggravated battle and is awaiting sentencing.
The slightest culpable of the quintet, Megan Leigh Robison, 34, initially lied to instrumentality enforcement astir what she knew aft the information astir Mamph’s murder; she yet pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of making a mendacious connection and was sentenced to 5 years of probation.
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