Tesslynn Elizabeth O'Cull






Summary of Offense:

Sentenced to death in the murder of two-year-old Tesslyn O'Cull. On June 14, 1997, Tesslynn O'Cull was beaten, burned, bound, sexually assaulted, starved, tortured and brutalized by her mother’s boyfriend, Jesse Compton, and her own mother, Stella Kiser, in the days leading to her death. Her back was broken two to three weeks prior to her death and rubbing alcohol had been poured into open wounds on her body.