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    Sister fills in disturbing details

    McAnulty’s mistreatment of Jeanette Maples began when the murdered girl was 7, according to testimony

    The younger half-sister of a 15-year-old River Road girl who died of abuse and starvation in 2009 testified Thursday that their mother’s harsh treatment of Jeanette Marie Maples began as soon as Angela McAnulty regained custody of Jeanette at age 7 after she spent six years in California’s foster care system.

    That sister also told jurors considering the death penalty for McAnulty that days before Jeanette’s death, her mother revealed a quarter-sized wound on the back of Jeanette’s head and told her that if someone was “stabbed in the back of the head with a branch, it would cause brain damage.”

    By that time, Jeanette was “acting kind of strange,” said the sister, now 13 and living with foster parents.

    Jeanette spoke incoherently, the younger girl testified, asking for a blanket already covering her as she lay on a piece of cardboard where she slept on the floor. Jeanette would fall as she tried to stand with her face to the wall and her hands extended over her head — a longtime daily punishment, her sister said.

    Under gentle questioning by prosecutor Erik Hasselman, Angela McAnulty’s second daughter said she had some memory of when her half-sister first came back to live with her and her mother in the early 2000s — including the fact that Angela did not allow her daughters to talk to each other. After her mother married Richard McAnulty in 2002, the younger girl testified, Jeanette was confined to a bedroom in the back of their Sacramento home, so she would “not really be part of the family.”

    She also told jurors that both Angela and Richard McAnulty punished Jeanette by depriving her of food and water, hitting her with shoes and “popping” her on the mouth with the back of their hands, sometimes drawing blood. That statement contradicted Richard McAnulty’s testimony Wednesday that he caused Jeanette’s death by failing to protect her from her mother, but never injured her himself. He also is charged with aggravated murder in the teen’s death. His trial is set for May.

    The younger girl said she felt sorry for her sister, but when she tried to sneak her water, their mother retaliated by yelling at her and beating Jeanette anew.

    The sister also testified that Angela McAnulty forced her on several occasions to gather the family dog’s droppings from the backyard and that her mother then would smear the feces on Jeanette’s face as the girl stood as ordered with her hands over her head.

    “Jeanette would cry and say it was disgusting,” the sister recalled.

    McAnulty, who could become just the second woman in Oregon history sent to death row, showed little emotion as her daughter testified. Lane County Circuit Judge Kip Leonard later told jurors that he had ordered her not to visibly react to or look directly at her surviving daughter, so as to make the ordeal less upsetting for the girl.

    A court order barred cameras during her testimony Thursday. She appeared in casual teen fashion, wearing jeans and a hoody sweatshirt layered over several other tops. She spoke up politely when answering Hasselman’s questions, but occasionally glanced toward her mother and acknowledged that testifying was scary.

    Earlier Thursday, the sentencing trial took an unexpected 90-minute detour when Angela McAnulty’s attorneys told Leonard they intended to present jurors evidence detailing her husband’s alleged involvement in a September plot to escape from the Lane County Jail. The judge ruled that evidence inadmissible, however, after hearing arguments from attorneys for both sides, as well as testimony from a detective who investigated the purported scheme.

    Lane County sheriff’s Detective Carl Wilkerson told Leonard that a federal prisoner being held at the jail alerted him that Richard McAnulty and three other inmates planned to take hostage civilian leaders of a jailhouse Bible study. The informant said the inmates planned to incapacitate a deputy guarding the Bible study using a bar of soap in a sock as a weapon. The federal inmate also said the four intended to demand a vehicle and weapons, then flee to Mexico.

    Acting on that tip, deputies searched Richard en route to the Bible study, but found no bar of soap. Wilkerson did find an escape “survival list” in McAnulty’s cell, listing such items as camping supplies, throwing knives and a “choke rope.” But Hasselman dismissed the list as a “pipe dream” and told Leonard his office did not find enough evidence to file a charge in the case.

    The prosecutor also said the informant may have initiated the escape discussion for reasons of his own. He said that inmate later tried to get a reduced federal sentence based on tipping off authorities to the alleged plot.

    Jeanette McAnulty’s attorneys, Ken Hadley and Steven Krasik, argued that jurors needed to know that Richard may have provided exaggerated testimony against his wife out of gratitude that no charges were filed — or to ensure that none would be — over the alleged escape plan.

    They also asked Leonard to grant a mistrial after he refused to allow the panel to hear that testimony. The judge swiftly denied that motion. Jurors were not in the courtroom for any of that 90-minute discussion.

    In other testimony Thursday, Cascade Middle School cafeteria worker Michelle Mullins said she began secretly feeding Jeanette school lunches in sixth grade because she was concerned that the girl was “getting skinny.” When she once asked to see the lunch Jeanette’s mother had packed, Mullins said, she was shocked that it contained only one piece of cheese and a cracker.

    A crying Jeanette came into her office later that year, saying she had to stop eating the lunches because “my mom notices that I’ve been gaining weight because I’m eating.”

    Mullins said she reported the situation to state child protective services, which opened a case but closed it after an investigation.

    In the younger sister’s testimony, she also acknowledged falsely reporting that “Jeanette was fine” when a state child welfare worker questioned her at school about the suspected abuse. She did so, the girl explained, because Angela Mc*Anulty reminded her children daily that “what happens in the house stays in the house.”

    Her trial is scheduled to resume on Tuesday.

    http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...irl-angela.csp

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    Murderer to address jury weighing death penalty

    Angela McAnulty cried during the final testimony when her aunt, Patricia Linn, testified she would keep in contact with McAnulty until "the day she died."

    McAnulty faces the death penalty or life in prison for the December 2009 murder of her 15-year-old daughter, Jeanette Maples.

    McAnulty's defense rested justed after 11 a.m. The court is in recess until 1:15 p.m.

    Earlier in the day, Sister Carol Lee, a chaplain at the Lane County Jail, tesified that McAnulty's behavior has changed while she's been in jail.

    Lee said more recently, McAnulty appeared remoresful and sorry.

    Cynthia Young, a mental health specialist at the Lane County Jail, echoed Lee's testimony. Young said McAnulty started taking medication a few months after she went to jail. After that, Young testified McAnulty was able to focus better and was less depressed.

    Another of McAnulty's aunts, Alice White, also took the stand. She tesified that her niece's abusive upbringing caused McAnulty to abuse her daughter. White said McAnulty didn't have a strong enough mind to put the abuse behind her.

    McAnulty's lawyers said their client will make a statement to the jury when court reconvenes after lunch.

    Both sides will then give their closing arguements.

    The judge will then give the jury instructions and they will decide McAnulty's sentence. They must consider the following questions:

    * Was McAnulty's conduct that caused Maple's death deliberate? Did she deliberately kill Maples?
    * Will she be a danger to scociety?
    * Did McAnulty kill her daughter without being provoked?

    If the jurors unanimously answer yes to those three questions, they must answer the next question:

    * Should the death sentence be imposed?

    If the jury does not decide to sentence McAnulty to death, they will then have to decide if there are any circumstances in McAnulty's life or mental state that would mean she deserves the possibilty of parole after 30 years in prison.

    Judge dismisses juror

    The trial started with 15 jurors, leaving the court three alternates.

    However, the judge dismissed one juror on Tuesday after the juror made comments about his opinion about the outcome of the trial with other members of the jury.

    The dismissed juror also told other members of the jury he watched news coverage of the trial, which is against the rules for jury members.

    http://www.kval.com/news/local/116754114.html

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    Jury to begin deliberations

    A Lane County jury will begin deliberating this afternoon whether to impose the death penalty on a River Road mother who fatally tortured and starved 15-year-old Jeanette Marie Maples in 2009.

    Angela McAnulty’s aunt told a jury today that she believes her niece fatally abused her daughter in part because the convicted killer “did not have a strong enough mind” to overcome damage from her own childhood, which included the murder of her mother and abuse by her father.

    “I believe my niece suffers from a serious mental defect,” Alice White told jurors. Under questioning by prosecutor Erik Hasselman, she acknowledged that medical experts failed to find evidence that McAnulty suffers from a serious mental illness, but White said she still believes so, nonetheless.

    “I believe for someone to do what she did to Jeanette, they would have to have some kind of mental defect,” the California woman testified.

    http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms...eves-death.csp

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    Jury Finishes Deliberations in McAnulty Case

    The jury in Angela McAnulty's capital murder trial just finished their deliberations about whether to give her the death penalty or life in prison.

    They'll announce the sentence by p.m. Thursday.

    Prosecutors want McAnulty to get the death penalty for the way she beat, tortured and eventually killed her 15-year-old daughter Jeanette Maples.

    But McAnulty's defense team argued she's not a threat to society, so she should serve life in prison.

    http://kezi.com/news/local/205427

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    Jury: Death sentence for mom who tortured teen daughter to death

    EUGENE, Ore. -- A mother who admitted murdering her teenage daughter by torturing her to death over the course of several years will be the first woman sentenced to die in Oregon since the state brought back the death penalty in 1984.

    Angela McAnulty sat and stared after learning the 8 men and 4 women on the jury had condemned her to die for pleading guilty to the aggravated murder of her 15-year-old daughter, Jeanette Maples.

    The courtroom was packed, both with people who were part of the trial and judges and the district attorney.

    The court appeared to be under extra security compared to the previous 2 1/2 weeks of testimony in the sentencing phase of the murder trial.

    The convicted child killer's stoic demeanor upon hearing the verdict contrasts with the crying, wailing figure who didn't want to hear testimony from the paramedics who tried to kindle a spark of life from McAnylty's daughter's savaged body - although she told the jury she was at peace with their decision.

    The jury - and McAnulty - sat through hours of videos of police interviews as part of the prosecution's case for death.

    McAnulty initially denied doing anything wrong, and later pleaded not guilty.

    She changed her plea to guilty on the first day of her criminal trial.

    http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/n...116883498.html

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    McAnulty transported to Oregon woman's death row, appeal begins

    EUGENE, WILSONVILLE, Ore. (KMTR) -- Angela McAnulty, the Eugene woman who pleaded guilty to the 2009 murder of her daughter Jeanette Maples, is now on death row at a Salem prison as her sentence begins an automatic appeal process.

    Friday, February 25th, 2011, McAnulty was transported to the Coffee Creek Correction Facility in Wilsonville, an all women’s prison housing Oregon’s entire female prison population.

    A jury unanimously sentenced McAnulty to the death penalty on Thursday, February 24th, 2011, for the murder of her daughter Jeanette Maples in December 2009. Investigators say the McAnulty tortured and starved Maples to death.

    McAnulty’s sentencing is a landmark case in the history of the death penalty in Oregon. McAnulty is the only woman to receive a death sentence since Oregon voters reinstated the death penalty in 1984. She is the second woman to face the death penalty in Oregon’s history.

    In 1961, Oregon’s first woman was sentenced to death. Then 20 year-old Jeannace Freeman was convicted of murder after throwing her female partner’s young son off of a bridge in Jefferson County. Oregon voters struck down the death penalty in 1964, and Freeman’s sentence was commuted by then Governor Mark Hatfield. Freeman died in 2003.

    McAnulty’s death sentence has forced the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility to make changes to its facility to accommodate McAnulty as a death row inmate. The prison, which first opened in 2001, was not built with a specific death row inmate section.

    Oregon Department of Corrections spokesperson Jeanine Hohn said Friday, February 25th, 2011, that McAnulty’s treatment is “no different” than the other 36 male inmates currently on death row in Oregon. (To view a list of Oregon's death row inmates, click here.)

    McAnulty is being held in Coffee Creek’s “segregation unit,” in a cell by herself. She will never have contact with the general prison population. Only immediate family is allowed to visit McAnulty and all activities will be done inside of the unit she stays in. (To read more about the life of a death row inmate, click here.)

    With Oregon’s first woman on death row since 1964, McAnulty’s sentence has renewed discussion about capitol punishment in Oregon, and how long it takes to carry out an execution.

    “I don't see any potential sources for error in this case, legal error, that would be the basis for overturning the case,” says Lane County district attorney Alex Gardner.

    “However, if you read Oregon's cases, the death penalty cases, and you look at the reasons for which they were overturned, and you look at the arguments that are now pending, you get a sense of what it takes, or doesn't take make this happen,” says Gardner.

    While McAnulty is on death row, her sentence is now automatically being appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court, in accordance with Oregon law. The court will review legal arguments and transcripts presented in the sentencing hearings and make a decision from there. That decision may be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    After that set of appeals, Oregon death penalty defendants may appeal in a post-conviction process through a series of courts. Depending on the appeal process, it could be decades before an execution is carried out, if at all. (To read more on the appeals process, click here.)

    “Each of us has a duty to do to apply the law as it is given to us, and that's what we're doing here,” says Gardner.

    “We have to assume that if we do our job properly and then turn the case over to the next phase, then ultimately, the law, as the people have approved it, will be applied. Some would say, 'well you know, that's naive, the system is just going to bump along forever,' well that is something that's within our control,” says Gardner.

    Since 1984, only two men have been executed in Oregon. Both gave up their right to any further appeals.

    Douglas Franklin Wright was executed on September 6th, 1996. Harry Charles Moore was executed on May 16th, 1997. Wright and Moore were both executed by lethal injection, the only method used in Oregon since 1984. (To view a list of inmates executed in Oregon, click here.)

    All 37 of Oregon’s current death row inmates are appealing their death sentence.

    http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story...Q.cspx?rss=191

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    Angela McAnulty, Eugene woman who killed 15-year-old daughter, lands on new death row

    Oregon now has a second death row, a one-cell arrangement housing only the second woman in state history to face execution.

    Angela McAnulty, 43, moved into Coffee Creek Correctional Facility last month, sentenced to die for murdering her 15-year-old daughter.

    Years of appeals are before her, and she will spend most of that time in a cell that is part of the Wilsonville prison's segregation unit. Prison officials are modifying her cell to make it more like cells in the rest of the prison, adding modest features such as shelving. She'll get out of the cell for exercise, phone calls, and religious and legal services.

    The state's original death row is at the Oregon State Penitentiary, where 35 men await execution by lethal injection. The Salem prison has the state's lone execution chamber. If McAnulty is executed, it will be there.

    Voters put the death penalty back on the books in 1978 only to have it voided by the Oregon Supreme Court. Voters again approved the death penalty in 1984.

    McAnulty, born in California, lost her mother to murder when she was 5. After high school, she traveled with a carnival worker and started using drugs. She had two sons and a daughter in a later marriage, and all were taken by California authorities for neglect and abuse. McAnulty bore another daughter, recovered the daughter taken by state officials, and married a long-haul trucker.

    The family moved to Oregon in 2006 after adding a son. On Dec. 9, 2009, McAnulty killed her daughter, Jeanette Maples -- the girl returned to her by California authorities.

    In Oregon, prison officials have separate rules for managing death row inmates. Inmates can have only one set of clothes, and can exchange them three times a week. They get one knit cap and a pair of shoes. If they need a coat for outdoor exercise, they have to return it before going back to their cells.

    McAnulty eats her meals alone in her cell, allowed to keep only a piece of fruit before returning the tray. She does have access to the prison canteen to buy small items, and she can use the pay phone.

    Under the rules, she can exercise indoors at least 40 minutes a day, but that includes shower time. Five times a week, she can exercise in a fenced outdoor yard. She can talk to other inmates through the fence.

    She is exempt from the state law that requires inmates to work 40 hours a week. But prison officials said McAnulty may nonetheless get a prison job.

    "A work assignment will provide her an opportunity to earn her funds and practice pro-social behavior," said Jana Wong, public information officer at Coffee Creek.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-no...death_row.html

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    Husband of murderer mom pleads guilty

    The husband of a woman sentenced to die for torturing her teenage daughter to death pleaded guilty to murder by abuse for his role in the girl's death and faces at least 25 years in prison.

    A jury sentenced Angela McAnulty to die after she pleaded guilty to aggravated murder for the December 2009 death of her daughter Jeanette Marie Maples on the first day of her criminal trial.

    McAnulty's husband Richard faced a May trial on aggravated murder charges for his role in the girl's death.

    McAnulty pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to murder by abuse. He faces a mandatory life sentence with a chance of parole after 25 years.

    Deputy District Attorney Erik Hasselman said in court that Richard just as responsible for Maples' death as Angela.

    McAnulty's attorney agreed to the deal but said it's still not fair.He said his client has a low IQ and that this wouldn't have happened had he not met Angela.

    In court, McAnulty's beard had grown out and he looked more gray. He was wearing a turqouise jumpsuit. He didn't show any emotion when the deal was read.

    Attorneys had been working on a deal for a week.

    Prosecutors had previously said Richard McAnulty would not face the death penalty because they cannot prove his actions directly led to the girl's death. In open court, however, prosecutors also made it clear they would not negotiate the plea down to manslaughter.

    Testified at wife's sentencing


    Richard testified during the sentencing phase of his wife's trial. He told the jury that Angela McAnulty would turn up the TV in the living room to cover up the sound of her beating Maples - and it didn't work.

    "You could hear the whips," he testified. "It was horrifying. I didn't know what was going on. Her mom would have her strip naked and whip her."

    Richard said the abuse that led to Jeanette's death Dec. 9, 2009, started before Halloween. Richard said the first time he saw Jeanette's injuries, he was scared and didn't know what to do.

    "I failed her," he said. "I failed her as a father. I didn't get help for her."

    The husband and wife sat only a few paces apart in the courtroom but rarely exchanged glances. Angela looked either straight ahead or talked to her attorney.

    Defense alleged deal with Richard McAnulty for his testimony

    Angela McAnulty's lawyers unsuccessfully sought a mistrial during their client's sentencing phase, claiming Richard McAnulty had cut a deal with prosecutors in exchange for his testimony.

    The defense lawyers didn't claim Richard McAnulty had cut a deal related to the aggravate murder charge. Instead, they suggested prosecutors agreed not to prosecute him for an alleged escape plot in exchange for his testimony.

    After an hour and a half of arguments and testimony, the judge denied the request for a mistrial. Prosecutors said no deal had been cut and that instead they lacked enough evidence to prosecute Richard McAnulty on the escape charge.

    When questions on the stand about the plot, however, Richard McAnulty invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent to avoid self incrimination.

    http://www.kval.com/news/local/119210479.html

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    OR Human Services department sued over teen death

    EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A $1.5 million lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services accuses the agency of failing to prevent the death of Eugene teenager Jeanette Maples.

    The Register Guard reports (http://bit.ly/pMfTSr) the lawsuit was filed Lane County Circuit Court by Portland lawyer David Paul on behalf of her estate.

    The 15-year-old was starved and beaten to death in 2009. Her mother, Angela McAnulty, is on death row after pleading guilty to aggravated murder. Her stepfather, Richard McAnulty is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to murder by abuse.

    The lawsuit says the agency failed to reasonably respond to reports of abuse.

    The Oregon attorney general's office will defend the agency.

    http://www.chron.com/news/article/OR...th-2149019.php

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    I have read a lot of crime stories, but this was too much. I am sick knowing this beautiful young girl was abused this way. And by her mother? No one who could have stopped it, did so? Years of torture? The evil in some people is incomprehensible.

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