Ricky Cowles Jr., 21, was going to become a dad when he was beaten and taken shots at his Lancaster condo, which he imparted to his 16-year-old pregnant sweetheart, Amy Preasmyer, on August 12, 1997. The crime location was found by Preasmyer and a gathering of companions, who then called 911. Cowles was hurried to a clinic, where he surrendered to his wounds three days after the fact.
One of Preasmyer’s companions, Billy Hoffman, was captured regarding Cowles’ homicide the next April after specialists got a tip. Hoffman was tracked down blameworthy in his 1999 preliminary and was condemned to life in jail without the chance for further appeal. In any case, reality surfaced after he educated analysts about the contribution regarding Amy Preasmyer and one more companion in the homicide plot. Both were subsequently sentenced.
An all-new NBC Dateline episode named Killing Time will dig into Ricky Cowles Jr’s. many years old homicide case. The summary for the impending episode states:
“A man sentenced for the 1997 homicide of Ricky Cowles Jr. in Lancaster, California, uncovers new subtleties working on it in an elite meeting.”
The two-hour episode airs on the channel this Friday, May 5, at 9 pm ET.
In mid-1997, Ricky Cowles Jr. dwelled in a two-story Lancaster loft with his 16-year-old pregnant sweetheart, Amy Preasmyer. The two frequently deviated, particularly when the last’s companions, Jennifer Kellogg and Sara Chapin, remained with them for about seven days in August of that year. Kellogg and Chapin took drugs, and Cowles honestly didn’t really like them doing it around his pregnant sweetheart.
As indicated by reports, the couple contended on August 11 about regardless of whether Preasmyer’s companions ought to leave their condo and, after a warmed contention, concurred that it was ideal assuming they left. The next day, Preasmyer’s gone through the outing with Kellogg and, at some point around 8 pm, got together with Chapin and one more companion Jeff Shreves before the gathering made a beeline for Preasmyer’s condo.
In the loft, the 16-year-old tracked down a crime location with her 21-year-former sweetheart on the floor. They then, at that point, called 911, and Cowles was carried to an emergency clinic, where he died three days after the fact. Reports express that he was shot in the head once and struck something like multiple times with a weapon reliable with a hook hammer.
Specialists confirmed that the assault on Ricky Cowles Jr. was not a robbery turned out badly, offered that there were no hints of a break-in and nothing was absent from the house. As a matter of fact, Cowles’ wallet was likewise flawless, with all the Visas, money, distinguishing proof still inside. They likewise saw as a .25 type shot packaging at the scene and discovered that main the couple had keys to the loft.
The next year, a man named Joey Green was captured for an irrelevant wrongdoing when he gave specialists a pivotal tip by embroiling Billy Hoffman, one of Amy Preasmyer’s lifelong companions, in Ricky Cowles Jr’s. passing. Hoffman was captured in April 1998 and accordingly stood preliminary the next year when it was uncovered that he had admitted to the wrongdoing to various individuals.
Billy Hoffman was viewed as blameworthy and condemned to life in jail without the chance of parole. Be that as it may, in 2002, he had a difference in still, small voice and in the long run composed Cowles’ family a letter where he admitted to his job in the wrongdoing. Furthermore, he informed specialists concerning the genius of the homicide plot, the casualty’s then-pregnant sweetheart, Amy Preasmyer, and the job of Jennifer Kellogg.
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According to Hoffman’s admission, Preasmyer contacted him to have Cowles killed on the grounds that she accepted it was his shortcoming she was pregnant, which was demolishing her celebrating way of life. The 16-year-old consented to pay him for the deed and gave him admittance to their condo. She was captured in 2005 and found blameworthy two years after the fact for requesting of homicide and connivance to carry out murder.
In the mean time, Kellogg confessed to lesser accusations, including deliberate homicide, and was condemned to 17 years in jail. One more man named David Ashbury was additionally condemned in 2006 to two years in jail for providing the weapon used to shoot Ricky Cowles Jr.
Become familiar with the case on NBC Dateline’s all-new episode this Friday, May 5.
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