A Florida man will receive the death penalty after a jury unanimously recommended the sentence this Friday after five days of deliberation after it was proven that he tortured and killed two children in 2020.
The subject identified as Mark Wilson was found guilty earlier this month in the death of the Tatyen brothers Baker, of years, and Robert Baker, of 12, in August 839, reported First Coast News.
Reports stated that Wilson lived with his wife, who was the children’s aunt, in a shed owned by the woman’s family in Melrose at the time, and murdered the children by hitting them over the head with a hammer and then cut their throats.
At the time of the homicides, the children’s mother, Sarah Baker, was sleeping at home, but a detective determined that the woman could not hear them from her bedroom due to the pandemic isolation, reported Fox News.
According to courtroom testimony by Assistant State’s Attorney Jennifer Dunton, Wilson had attempted to slash Tayten’s throat multiple times, while the younger brother was slit “from end to end,” standing nearby. to behead him.
During the trial, Baker testified that prior to the murders he saw Wilson sharpening a knife that would later become the murder weapon. The mother found the body of her eldest son after a trail of blood from 18 feet. The two children were covered with blankets.
New: Family tells me these are the pictures of Melrose double homicide victims Tayten Baker (left), 14, and Robert Baker (right), 12. Case being investigated by @PutnamCountySO and @fdlepio.
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– Ryan Nelson (@RyanNelsonTV) August 27, 2020
Chrisy Adkins, Wilson’s mother, played an important role in the investigation as a confidential informant, recording a conversation with her son that was key to his arrest.
“I told Mark that he needed to cooperate,” said the murderer’s mother on the stand. “Take a lie detector test and clear your name. She got out of bed and said, ‘Mom, I can’t do that,’ and I asked her if she hurt those babies…and in a voice that seemed like it wasn’t hers, she said, ‘Yes, Mom, I did.’”
The recorded conversation played in the courtroom, Wilson revealed that he killed the children because he believed the family would report him and his wife to the Department of Children and Families. He also said that he and his wife conspired to wipe out the entire family, according to an arrest warrant from the Putman County Sheriff’s Office.
Meanwhile, Wilson claimed in a different version that the children they sexually abused their daughter, something that could not be verified.