Homicide within the Heartland is inspecting the homicide of Sarah Washington, who was shot lifeless by Rex Frank at her residence in Kankakee, Illinois.
On June 26, 2014, Sarah’s mom, Kathy Washington, went to her daughter’s condominium to drive her to work and made the surprising discovery that she had been shot twice within the head. The 25-year-old aspiring mannequin was discovered mendacity on the bed room ground.
The cops later learned that the assassin had been Rex Frank, a violent killer who had been an acquaintance of Washington’s live-in boyfriend. Frank had visited Washington’s boyfriend earlier within the day when he had requested medication, a gun, and cash, however had left empty-handed.
Rex Frank had already admitted guilt in Rian Maiden homicide case
The police have been in a position to pinpoint Frank because the killer after he pleaded responsible to a different homicide. On July 4, 2014, the assassin broke into the house of Rian Maiden within the close by city of Solar River Terrace, IL. When Maiden interrupted Frank burglarizing his residence, he was shot a number of occasions.
Frank had compelled Maiden to offer him his PIN quantity and ATM card earlier than he shot him 4 occasions, twice within the head.
Frank pleaded responsible to the Maiden homicide and was sentenced to 45 years in jail. Nevertheless, he denied killing Washington.
The killer was placed on trial for Washington’s homicide, and plenty of the prosecution’s case relied on the shell casings that have been discovered mendacity beside Washington’s stays; they matched the casings discovered beside Maiden.
In 2019, a jury discovered Frank responsible of killing Sarah Washington, and he obtained an automated life sentence.
At the sentencing, Decide Clark Erickson mentioned: “You’re a cold-blooded killer. I sentence you to pure life in jail. You should have no likelihood for parole, and you’ll die in jail. You deserve it.”
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Homicide within the Heartland airs at 9/8c on Investigation Discovery.
