CRIME CORNER

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The High School Lover

“My husband just killed someone,” Erin McLean said to the 911 dispatcher. The young woman was calling to explain that her husband, 31-year-old Eric, had shot her younger lover. It was 2007, and the Knoxville, Tennessee couple's perfect facade was shattered.

As "Snapped" shares, while she was pursuing her PhD, she met 17-year-old Sean Powell at her internship. She fell hard for the high schooler and even began tutoring him and let him move into a spare room. 

“It was almost like she was regressing back to her teenager kind of emotions. She just stopped talking to me all together in November. It was like there was no communication at all,” said Eric. Erin and Sean began an affair and even taunted the husband with it. 

Eric got a rifle and initially claimed that he just wanted to scare Sean. According to Eric, Sean lunged forward and grabbed at the gun. And, that’s when the gun went off and killed Powell.

Eventually, Eric was found not guilty on all murder charges and on voluntary manslaughter charges. He was found guilty of reckless homicide and was sentenced to a mere 90 days in jail, with credit for time served.

Killing for Insurance Money

In 1991, Dan Willoughby and his family were on vacation in Las Conchas, Mexico. According to "Snapped," his wife Trish (seen above) stayed behind to take a nap. When Dan and the three children came back, they found the 43-year-old mom's skull crushed. Eventually, she died.

The crime was no accident. Authorities discovered that Dan was having a serious affair, including an engagement, with a transgender woman named Yesenia. Dan tried to hide his wife from his lover.

Finally, he convinced her to kill Trish and promised to be with her. Dan also stood to gain millions from his wife's life insurance and business assets. 

Dan said, according to Yesenia, “Yesenia, I can’t do it myself. In order for us to be together forever you going to have to help me.” 

Yesenia admitted to stabbing the wife and received 35 years in prison. He received two life terms.

A Mom Who Made Teens Killers

Judy Parker didn't kill her husband John; she got her kids to do it. In 2003, police received a call from 33-year-old Judy that her millionaire husband had been shot. 

“I didn't see anybody, all I seen was, I heard the shots and I looked, and it was just a person running,” Judy told police, per "Snapped."

Upon investigation, two teens from Crown Point High School were seen flashing cash suspiciously. When asked by a counselor, they confessed that they got it from Danny, Judy's 15-year-old son. He allegedly asked them to “take care” of John Parker and paid them with money his mother gave him.

Eventually, Danny admitted to ordering an attack on Parker as payback for abuse he said he experienced. Interestingly, Judy denied involvement and placed blame on her son.  

“We were completely amazed for her to shove a child in front of her to make sure she doesn’t go to jail,” said Robert Wiley, Merrillville Police Commander. Years later, Judy tried to claim $1.5 million from Parker's life insurance policy. Authorities investigated further and saw her connection to the crime and how she ordered Danny and his sister, Christina, to do it. She took a plea, and in 2009 she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder. She was sentenced to 33 years in prison.

Danny was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Christina got five years.

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