The Alaska Court of Appeals has denied the appeal of a southeast Alaska woman convicted as a teenager of criminal negligent homicide in the death of her mother.
The Ketchikan Daily News (http://bit.ly/1xRVUra) reports the Appeals Court confirmed that Rachelle Waterman of Craig was properly prosecuted as an adult in the 2004 death of Lauri Waterman.
Rachelle Waterman was 16 when her mother was kidnapped and beaten to death. Her body was found in a van set on fire and staged to look like a crash.
Two 24-year-old former boyfriends of Rachelle Waterman confessed to the murder.
Prosecutors said Waterman told the men her mother beat her and suggested she wanted her mother dead. Prosecutors also said Waterman failed to warn her mother after an earlier planned attack.
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Information from: Ketchikan (Alaska) Daily News, http://www.ketchikandailynews.com
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