A 37-year-old will serve the rest of his life in prison after brutally beaten and stinking his pregnant girl in Kennewick’s apartment, then throwing her body in the river.
And Judge Joe Burrowes on Monday sentenced Richard Jacobson to life without probation. But he added that if any case requires a longer period, it was the case.
“The court finds that the crimes were not only thoughtful and thoughtful, but also committed with the level of cruelty that causes the conscience of the normal person,” Burrowes said.
Jacobson said nothing during the listening.
Richard Jacobson, 37, goes to the Benton District High Court for being convicted of 2022. Brandy Ebanez murder.
The jury took just 45 minutes on June 18 to make Jacobson to blame for the aggravating first -degree murder for the 34 -year -old Brandy Ebanez murder. Their decision followed six days of 28 testimony of witnesses.
According to the law of the state of Washington, this crime has a mandatory sentence to life without probation.
“This is determined not only as a punishment, but also as a deterrent measure and the commitment of the law to protect the vulnerable statements,” Burrowes said. “Although this judgment is enforced by law … If there was more of what the court could give, this case is that case.”
At the time of the murder, Ebanez, who was four or five months pregnant, was Julie Long, deputy prosecutor of prosecutor, was a goal when deputy prosecutor Julie Long said at a Monday morning hearing.
Supporters of the victim Brandy Ebanez and other members of the community visit Richard Jacobson’s sentence at Kennewicke at the Benth County County Center.
Her mother tried to force her to leave her husband, but Ebanez said she loved him.
“She just refused to leave him, despite handling without contact and ongoing violence,” Long said. “That love for this defendant ended deadly.”
Police investigators are standing behind a second floor apartment located in 3703 W. Kennewick Ave, looking for the death of Brandy Ebanez in 2022. September
He was recently released from a prison for violating the non -contact order without contact when he returned with her and her two daughters in their Kennewick apartment. 2022 September The argument became violent and Jacobson beat her and strangled her.
He hid her body under the bed in their bedroom and bought plastic bags, cleaning supplies, hand truck and two landscape tiles. He drowned her weighted body into the Colombian River, but was noticed by a Kennewick police officer who was fishing at the time.
Brandy Ebanez’s body was found in a float of the Colombian River down the cable bridge down, on the Kennewick shore side in 2022. September
On Monday, prosecutors also asked the judge to issue a lifelong order without contact so that Jacobson could not contact two daughters. The girls were in an apartment when their mother was killed and a lifetime faced trauma, Long said.
Jacobson will still be responsible for the restitution of nearly $ 11,000 for their consulting accounts.
The older daughter of the couple, who was 12 at the time of the murder, told the interlocutors that she saw Jacobson struck her mother at least 100 times.
“He struck her, stuck, grabbed her hair and spit on her,” Long said. The daughter had to oversee her sister during those attacks.
“Obviously, it does a lifetime for both girls. They without their mother and know that it happened while they were at home,” Long said. “You heard the oldest daughter talked about how she should live with that decision, and that is too much a burden to carry that young girl. She was only 12 years old. It was not her responsibility to try to take care of her mother.”
Memorial with flowers, candles and a large advertising tape honor the victim of the hugs Brandy Ebanez of the Kennewick Colombian River.
Defense lawyer Michael Vander Sys submitted a report by Jacobson that he had appealed.
He said Jacobson should not be banned forever contact with his daughters. He noted that alternate possibilities should be taken into account for the protection that parents have under the Constitution of the State.
Burrows confirmed the order without contact for a lifetime, and said Jacobson’s daughters could decide if they would ever want to contact him.