A Florida girl who killed her husband, buried him of their yard and tried in charge her 7-year-old daughter, has been sentenced to life in jail.
In September, Laurie Shaver, 41, was discovered responsible of second-degree homicide within the 2015 loss of life of Michael Shaver, 36.
Shaver appeared to stay impassive throughout her sentencing on Tuesday, as she appeared straight forward and nodded whereas the choose sentenced her to life behind bars.Â
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Michael, a technician at Disney World, was final seen in November 2015, in response to the Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace.
His physique was found on March 9, 2018, after a pal reported him lacking and police carried out a wellness verify on the five-acre Shaver house in Claremont, west of Orlando. Authorities discovered Michael’s physique buried beneath a firepit and concrete slab within the yard.
Authorities mentioned Shaver despatched texts and Fb messages, pretending to be Michael, after he was already useless.Â
Shaver additionally allegedly informed buddies that Michael had left the household and moved away to different states. She was arrested in 2020, 5 years after Michael’s loss of life.Â
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Throughout her trial, Shaver claimed that Michael had been an abusive husband and that her 7-year-old daughter had killed him.Â
Shaver’s daughter, now 15, testified in her mom’s protection in the course of the trial, Fox35 reported.
“I shot him,” {the teenager} mentioned underneath oath.Â
“Did you’re feeling once you fired that shot, that that needed to be finished, or he would have killed your mom?” Shaver’s lawyer requested.
“Sure, sure,” she mentioned.
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“Whereas justice could supply some solace, it is not going to restore the injuries,” Michael’s brother, Brian Shaver, mentioned in the course of the sentencing, the native outlet reported.Â
Certainly one of Michael’s buddies additionally wrote a plea to the choose that Shaver by no means go free.
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“Laurie’s inhuman, ruthless, and savage actions, and particularly her lack of any repentance, point out that she’s going to by no means change,” the letter learn.
Shaver’s lawyer has filed an enchantment to the decision.Â