Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii – The U.S. Army soldier at Hawaii was sentenced to 23 years in prison for killing his wife and unborn child last summer and try to cover a crime by dissolving and disposing of her body in the garbage.
PFC. Dewayne Johnson said before in the week to voluntary murder, the obstruction of justice and providing false official statements, Army Office for Special Court said in the statement.
His wife, Mischa Johnson, was 19 years and six months of pregnant women at the time of death 12. July 2024. Years. Her body was not found.
Johnson, 25. Infantic Division, he told the judge during his testimony in the military courtroom that he hit his wife with a machete in his house at Schofield’s military base, after the argument, Reported about kitv.
He said he broke after his wife shouted that his child would not know that there was. He hit her on her head and stopped breathing and didn’t have a pulse. He said he didn’t intend to kill her.
“I couldn’t imagine my life without my child,” he said. “I’m sorry about that, I shouldn’t have done that.”
He used a chain saw to cut his wife’s body to hide the murder and put his body parts into the garbage bag he put in the trash in his unit. He said he heard that the trash was taken away from there straight to the burner.
Johnson reported that the wife disappeared on 31. July, more than two weeks after her death. He joined the search for the parties who were looking for about Oahu. He was charged with her murder 27. August, after the military researchers found blood, DNA and other evidence in his home.
The prosecutors said that Johnson from Frederick, Maryland, received a maximum sentence allowed under the law. They lowered a list of sexual abuse of a child under the conditions of his agreement on plea.
Johnson’s rank will be reduced to private and he will lose payment and accessories and be disfigured. He will serve his sentences in the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Marianna Tapiz said kitv It was shocking and painful to hear what happened to her sister.
“As a family together, we just try not to focus on the horrible details of her last moment,” Tapiz said. “And instead, right now, we’re trying to remember the happy memories we have and remember her in that life.”
Military prosecutor POV. Colonel Nicholas Hurd, he said he hopes that the justice procedure would be able to heal.
“Although she couldn’t ever alleviate the truly loss of Mrs. Johnson and her unborn child for his family and friends, it’s that PFC.
2025-06-05 21:03:00
