Ex-Cop Pleads Responsible To Killing Pregnant Girlfriend
A former Austin police officer has pleaded responsible to killing his girlfriend and their unborn youngster after she refused to abort the being pregnant.
VonTrey Clark was sentenced to life in jail for capital homicide within the 2015 loss of life of his girlfriend, Samantha Dean, who was seven-months pregnant with their youngster on the time, NBC affiliate KXAN experiences.
Clark reversed his preliminary not responsible plea to responsible in courtroom on Monday (Dec. 16), months earlier than the high-profile homicide case was set to go to trial.
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As a part of the plea settlement, Clark will likely be sentenced to life in jail with out parole. Prosecutors had been in search of the loss of life penalty, the Austin American-Statesman experiences.
Dean was 29 years outdated on the time of her homicide.
Her physique was discovered with three gunshot wounds behind a vacant workplace constructing in Bastrop County, Texas, the Austin American-Statesman experiences.
Clark had a household with one other girl. He had an on-and-off relationship with Dean for about seven years, investigators mentioned, and he demanded she get an abortion when he realized of the being pregnant.
When Dean refused, Clark employed two males to kill her for $5,000, the Austin American-Statesman experiences.
Investigators found Dean’s journal in her south Austin residence throughout their seek for clues resulting in her killer and located entries describing her worry for her life and that Clark was “going to kill her.”
Dean was an worker of the Kyle Police Division within the sufferer providers unit on the time of her loss of life, KXAN experiences.
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In July 2015, Clark was fired from the Austin Police Division after he fled to Bali, Indonesia, with out permission to depart Travis County.
His attorneys mentioned on the time that he was in search of medical consideration for an undisclosed ailment, the Austin American-Statesman experiences.
A month later, Clark was extradited again to the US by federal brokers. He was detained within the Bastrop County Jail and indicted on a capital homicide cost that October — eight months after Dean’s physique was discovered, the Austin American-Statesman experiences.
“You stole my favourite individual, somebody I used to be fortunate sufficient to know for 21 and a half years. She was at all times one in every of my greatest cheerleaders,” Dean’s sister, Taylor Alexander Dean, mentioned in courtroom Monday (Dec. 16) on to Clark, KXAN experiences. “She was my comic, an individual to at all times giggle and make me smile. You stole an harmless youngster. You stole my niece — Madeline was cherished — I valued the moments I may sit and browse to her and eager to really feel her kick.”