Banita Jacks

From the Washington Post: Here's a quiz: Which names do you recognize? Aja. N'Kiah. Tatianna. Brittany. Caylee. All five girls, authorities said, were killed by their mothers. Yet it's likely that, besides their family and friends, not many people remember sisters Aja Fogle, 5, N'Kiah Fogle, 6, Tatianna Jacks, 11, and Brittany Jacks, 16. In 2008, when their decaying bodies were found in their mother's Southeast Washington rowhouse, their faces weren't splashed on the covers of magazines, and...Read Full Story

A witness in the trial of a woman accused of killing her four daughters says the parents allowed two of the girls to smoke marijuana at the ages of 3 and 4.LaShawn Ragland, a friend of Banita Jacks' boyfriend, testified in Jacks' murder trial on Monday.Ragland told prosecutors that she once observed Jacks and boyfriend Nathaniel Fogle Jr. laughing as the two youngest girls, N'Kiah and Aja, smoked marijuana.Fogle, who died in 2007, was their father.U.S. Marshals discovered the four girls...Read Full Story

Banita Jacks is being charged with murder. The decomposing bodies of her girls, ages 5 to 17, were found in her apartment.In court today, a DC medical examiner said some of the bodies were so decomposed, it was difficult to tell if they were murdered.From an article at the Washington Post: A District medical examiner told a D.C. Superior Court judge Monday that Banita Jacks's oldest daughter's body was so badly decomposed that he was only about "50 percent" sure that she had been murdered...Read Full Story

A D.C. woman convicted of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for months is returning to court for a hearing on her refusal to use an insanity defense.Banita Jacks was found guilty in July of four murders. She faces life in prison and had been scheduled to be sentenced Friday.But defense lawyers are still questioning Jacks' refusal to use an insanity defense. They are asking the judge to appoint an independent counsel to investigate.Prosecutors oppose the...Read Full Story

A judge will decide the case of a woman accused of killing her four daughters, whose bodies were found decomposing in the family's southeast Washington home in January 2008.The girls ranged in age from 5 to 17.Banita Jacks, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated first-degree murder, waived her right to a jury trial Thursday. D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg accepted Jacks' request for a bench trial, despite objections from her attorneys.Jacks' attorneys asked for...Read Full Story

A D.C. woman convicted of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for months returns to court Friday to be sentenced.Banita Jacks was found guilty in July of the four murders. She faces life in prison.But defense lawyers are still raising questions about Jacks' refusal to use an insanity defense. They're asking Judge Frederick H. Weisberg to appoint an independent counsel to investigate whether Jacks should have used it.U.S. Marshals discovered the bodies of Jacks...Read Full Story

Closing arguments have finished in the case of a woman accused of killing her four daughters and living for months with their decomposing bodies.Prosecutors told D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg on Monday that Banita Jacks created a "prison of torture" in her southeast Washington home. They say she mistreated her children and ultimately murdered them.Defense attorneys say prosecutors failed to prove that Jacks is guilty. They say there was a "battle of experts" among scientists...Read Full Story

A Washington, D.C., woman accused of killing her four daughters has asked a judge to decide her case.Attorneys for Banita Jacks told a Superior Court judge Friday that she wants to waive her right to a jury trial that had been scheduled for July.Authorities say the decomposing bodies of Jacks' daughters were found in her southeast Washington rowhouse in January 2008. They ranged in age from 5 to 17.Jacks pleaded not guilty in September to charges of premeditated first-degree murder.Court...Read Full Story

Motorcycle jacks are equipments that are ideal for several maintenance activities such as washing motorcycle, changing fluids, changing flat tyres and cleaning motorcycle from tip to tail and are useful for lifting a motorcycle.It is easy for a person to change the flat tyre in a car. Moreover, in some motorcycles, changing tires without the help of any tool, device or equipment is very troublesome. In this kind of situation, all can do is either easily go an intelligent alternative of using...Read Full Story

.FROM THE DARK DEPTHS OF THE HUMAN SOULPEOPLE EATING BABIES, RAPING HORSES, VOTING REPUBLICANHow Come The "Christians" Never Say Anything About Any Of This?Oh, yeah; cuz it's them doing it... Well here's the latest insanity from across the nation. Please try not to join in. The general climate is crazy enough, thank you very much, Republicans.NY TIMES"Mother Guilty of Killing 4 Girls Whose Bodies Decomposed in Home "Foreclosure kills.' In January 2008, when federal marshals arrived to evict...Read Full Story