|
|
| |
|
LATEST NEWS:
Verdict: Not guilty
A Texas jury found Deanna Laney not guilty by reason of insanity for fatally beating two of her young sons with rocks and seriously injuring a third. She faces commitment to a mental facility for an unspecified amount of time.
Full story
Read about closing arguments
Psychiatrist: Mother who stoned kids 'crazy'
A court-appointed psychiatrist told jurors Friday that a devoutly religious East Texas housewife was "crazy" when she stoned two sons to death and left a third with lifelong injuries.
Full story
Commandments from God
She knows it was wrong now, but Deanna Laney was unremorseful and sincerely believed she was carrying out God's will even six days after she stoned two of her sons to death last year, jurors learned from a videotaped interview Thursday.
Full story
Watch her interviews
Mother details delusions
In a videotaped interview played for jurors Wednesday, Deanna Laney told a forensic psychiatrist she believed God wanted her to murder her children.
Full story
Husband still loves his wife
Keith Laney still loves his wife. The fact that she killed their two sons and permanently injured a third because she thought God told her to hasn't changed that, the 47-year-old testified Tuesday at Dee Laney's capital murder trial.
Full story
Doctor: Mother believed she and Andrea Yates 'chosen'
Mother on trial for stoning young sons
Deanna Laney admits killing her sons, 8-year-old Joshua, and 6-year-old Luke, by stoning them in the front yard of their Texas home. Testimony is underway in her trial, as defense lawyers hope to convince jurors that the 39-year-old defendant is insane.
Full story
Read the 911 transcript
Jury seated in mother's stoning case
A jury was chosen in the insanity trial of Deanna Laney, who stoned her two young sons to death and injured her 14-month old baby. The panel will be sequestered for the duration of the trial.
Full story
Read the indictment
|
|
|
 |
| |
|
Texas mother Deanna Laney admits fatally stoning her sons, ages 8 and 6, but claims she was insane at the time. She faces capital murder charges.
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
| |
|
911 Call
The transcript of the chilling 911 call captures Deanna Laney admitting to stoning her children.
The Indictment
Laney was indicted for capital murder of her two eldest sons and for injuring her 14-month-old baby.
Notice of Intent
Citing Laney's mental illness, prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty.
Family Statement
The defendant's brother-in-law, a preacher, spoke publicy of the tragedy during a Mother's Day sermon.
Police Affidavit
A responding officer describes the grisly scene in this document.
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
