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Jarrell Gets 14 Years For Fatal Beating

Robert Jarrell
Robert Jarrell
A judge on Thursday ordered consecutive sentences totaling 14-years for a man convicted of beating a man to death and abandoning the corpse in the Missouri River. Robert Jarrell was one of five people convicted of charges stemming from the beating death of Jason Daviess in August of 2013.

Davies was fatally beaten with a frying pan and a baseball bat. Then the body was dumped in the Missouri River, where it was found several days later.

A co-defendant, Martin Rilinger, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Three other defendants, Patricia Butler, Dollie Williams, and Billy Wilson, were all convicted and sentenced for evidence-tampering charges for helping dispose of the body.

Jarrell was convicted by a jury last month on the lessor-indluded charge of voluntary manslaughter, along with armed criminal action and abandonment of a corpse. The panel recommended seven years for manslaughter, three years for armed criminal action, and four years for abandonment of a corpse. Judge Dan Kellogg imposed those sentences, but ordered they be served consecutively.

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