She also Waterboarded Him Before Leaving His Body in a Shallow Pond
As reported by Law & Crime:
A Missouri woman will spend more than two decades behind bars after she admitted to killing a 32-year-old disabled man, beating him with a bar of soap stuffed in a sock and waterboarding him before leaving him for dead in a shallow pond.
Circuit Court Judge Scott A. Lipke on Dec. 21 ordered Heather Watson to serve a sentence of 25 years in a state correctional facility for her role in the 2021 slaying of Josh Taylor, authorities announced.
Watson previously reached a deal with the Bollinger County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in which she agreed to plead guilty to one count of second-degree murder in Taylor’s brutal death. Lipke credited her with 994 days already served, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
Watson’s co-defendant in the case, Joshua Proffer, pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison with the possibility of parole. He and Watson had been initially charged with first-degree murder before entering into plea deals.
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