Woman Who Be-Headed BF's Mom To Stay Locked Up | True Crime Daily Brief
Episode 440, Sep 05, 2022, 02:00 PM
The Kansas Supreme Court upheld a woman's conviction and sentence for assaulting and beheading her ex-mother boyfriend's during an argument in 2017.
Rachael Hilyard's attorneys appealed her first-degree murder conviction on the grounds of "insufficient evidence to support premeditation, erroneous jury instruction, ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial error, and the district court's abuse of discretion," according to the Kansas Supreme Court's 27-page judicial opinion.
The court, on the other hand, claimed that there was "sufficient evidence in the record to support a finding of premeditation." The same could be said for the other arguments her attorneys raised in court.
According to KAKE-TV Hilyard was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years in September 2020. The Kansas Supreme Court referred to this as a "hard 50."
According to the high court's decision, the victim, 63-year-old Micki Davis, and her 9-year-old grandson, who is referred to as J.G. in the document, went to Hilyard's house in April 2017. The boy's parents were Hilyard and Davis' son, Jeremy Rush.
Hilyard allegedly called Davis and told her she needed to pick up Rush's personal items or she would leave them on the curb. When Davis arrived, she allegedly got into a fight with Hilyard, who pushed Davis from behind.
J.G., who witnessed the altercation, reportedly locked himself in his grandmother's truck. He then exited and dialed 911 from a neighbor's house. Wichita Police officers picked up J.G. and went to Hilyard's house, knocking on doors but receiving no response.
When one of the officers opened a garage door, he discovered "a female body near a large pool of blood."
"The body's head was missing," according to the statement.
The other officer entered the house and discovered Hilyard on the bathroom floor. They had her arrested. Officers "found Davis' head in the kitchen sink" while searching the house.
"two bloody kitchen knives from near Davis' body," according to crime scene investigators.
Davis' autopsy revealed bruising and fractured ribs, according to the coroner. Davis was stabbed in the neck, according to reports, and the coroner "was confident it was not just one uninterrupted cut through the neck."
The coroner reportedly believed Davis "was still breathing when her throat was cut" due to blood found in her lungs.
Sharp force injuries to the neck were determined to be the cause of death.
The evidence at the scene "suggested Davis was likely alive while being decapitated," according to the opinion.
Hilyard was initially ruled incompetent to stand trial, but after receiving treatment in a hospital, another competency exam determined she was fit to stand trial.
According to reports, Hilyard cut Davis' head off because "'things' told Hilyard she had little time and she needed to get Davis' head away from her body so her soul could get free and go to heaven."
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Rachael Hilyard's attorneys appealed her first-degree murder conviction on the grounds of "insufficient evidence to support premeditation, erroneous jury instruction, ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial error, and the district court's abuse of discretion," according to the Kansas Supreme Court's 27-page judicial opinion.
The court, on the other hand, claimed that there was "sufficient evidence in the record to support a finding of premeditation." The same could be said for the other arguments her attorneys raised in court.
According to KAKE-TV Hilyard was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years in September 2020. The Kansas Supreme Court referred to this as a "hard 50."
According to the high court's decision, the victim, 63-year-old Micki Davis, and her 9-year-old grandson, who is referred to as J.G. in the document, went to Hilyard's house in April 2017. The boy's parents were Hilyard and Davis' son, Jeremy Rush.
Hilyard allegedly called Davis and told her she needed to pick up Rush's personal items or she would leave them on the curb. When Davis arrived, she allegedly got into a fight with Hilyard, who pushed Davis from behind.
J.G., who witnessed the altercation, reportedly locked himself in his grandmother's truck. He then exited and dialed 911 from a neighbor's house. Wichita Police officers picked up J.G. and went to Hilyard's house, knocking on doors but receiving no response.
When one of the officers opened a garage door, he discovered "a female body near a large pool of blood."
"The body's head was missing," according to the statement.
The other officer entered the house and discovered Hilyard on the bathroom floor. They had her arrested. Officers "found Davis' head in the kitchen sink" while searching the house.
"two bloody kitchen knives from near Davis' body," according to crime scene investigators.
Davis' autopsy revealed bruising and fractured ribs, according to the coroner. Davis was stabbed in the neck, according to reports, and the coroner "was confident it was not just one uninterrupted cut through the neck."
The coroner reportedly believed Davis "was still breathing when her throat was cut" due to blood found in her lungs.
Sharp force injuries to the neck were determined to be the cause of death.
The evidence at the scene "suggested Davis was likely alive while being decapitated," according to the opinion.
Hilyard was initially ruled incompetent to stand trial, but after receiving treatment in a hospital, another competency exam determined she was fit to stand trial.
According to reports, Hilyard cut Davis' head off because "'things' told Hilyard she had little time and she needed to get Davis' head away from her body so her soul could get free and go to heaven."
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