The year starts out with some heartbreaking stories coming out of Oakland County Circuit Court. Among the cases I'll be blogging about:
Jeffrey Pyne, a 21-year-old honor student at the University of Michigan,is accused of bludgeoning his mother to death in the family garage in May. A citizens grand jury indicted him in October. The question - did this nice young man, well respected in the community, with no criminal history, snap and take a board and beat Ruth Pyne, 51, to death. Ruth had a long history of serious mental illness, and according to court records, had been threatening to kill her son since age 9. Just months before her death, she had been jailed for trying to choke Jeffrey. It is a story of a family struggling with an horrific illness, and a young man now facing life in prison if convicted. Jeffrey, through his attorney, has denied any involvment in his mother's death.
Nancy Dailey, 80, was living a peaceful life in Royal Oak, working in her rose gardens and walking up the sidewalks of her quiet neighborhood. Then two people knocked on her door sometime in September or October. Let us help you rake your lawn, they told Dailey, who was single with no children. The two, both parole absconders with long criminal histories, are accused of murdering Dailey in her kitchen the afternoon of Nov. 20, slitting her throat after beating her to get the PIN number to her bank account. Alan Wood and Tonia Watson will go on trial for first degree murder. But perhaps also on trial - the Michigan Department of Corrections, which allowed the two to ramble through the community, even though the MDOC had evidence they were committing new crimes in the weeks leading up to Dailey's murder.
Stay tuned...
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