He told a court psychologist that the collision occurred while “driving to check the wells and the rice fields.” Lewellyn said he’d accidentally hit Sutherland, blaming the collision on a cloud of dust that had obscured his line of vision. Lewellyn ultimately admitted to striking Sutherland with his vehicle.
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"This outcome ensures that Quake Lewellyn will never again breath free air and that the Sutherland family will not have to suffer the renewed trauma of appeal after appeal that accompanies death penalty cases." "No length of incarceration, no punishment available under the law will ever be sufficient to provide retribution for the deeds of the evil mind that perpetrated these heinous acts," Pettie added. Prosecutors said Sutherland's family had approved the plea deal, effectively eliminating the possibility he'd be sentenced to death. Pettie, the sexual assault prosecutor for the Third Judicial District said in a statement sent to following sentencing. "It is the hope of this office that the Sutherland family can now have some closure and sense of finality." "After a little more than thirteen months, Quake Lewellyn has answered for his inexcusable and horrendous actions upon an innocent young lady," John D. She died from blunt force trauma, according to a medical examiner’s report her death was ruled a homicide.
Her body was later found in a field footsteps away from the pinned geographical location.ĭNA testing later confirmed Sutherland’s identity. During a consent search of his mobile phone, investigators traced his movements using a GPS app to a location about two miles away from where Sutherland's phone was found.
Lewellyn claimed he’d seen Sutherland running along a nearby roadway prior to her disappearance when questioned by authorities. She’d been reported missing two days earlier her phone was found just over a mile from her home an hour after she vanished. 21, 2020, Sutherland’s body was found in a makeshift grave in a rice field in Jackson County, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by.
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He waived his right to a jury trial and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Quake Lewellyn, 29, pleaded guilty to capital murder and rape of Sydney Sutherland in a Newton courtroom on Friday, according to a plea statement obtained by. An Arkansas farmer avoided a possible death sentence this week by pleading guilty to the brutal murder of a nurse he fatally hit with a pick-up truck, sexually assaulted, and buried in a rice field last year.
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