The Alaska Court of Appeals says the state must revisit Winona Fletcher’s 135 year prison sentence
The Alaska Court of Appeals says the state must revisit Winona Fletcher’s 135 year prison sentence. She is the youngest woman ever convicted for murder in Alaska at age 14, in 1986. On April 22, 1985, Winona Fletcher, and 19 year old Cordell Boyd, broke into the home of 69 year old Tom Faccio and his 70 year old wife Ann. It's said they had planned a robbery, but ended up shooting and killed the elderly couple, and Ann’s sister Emma Elliot. Cordell Boyd pled guilty to the murder of Tom Faccio, and Fletcher pled no contest to the murder of Ann Faccio and Emma Elliot. Fletcher was tried as an adult. Fletcher’s mother testified that Cordell Boyd began a sexual relationship with Fletcher when he was 18 and she was 13 after she had lost her home and was working as a prostitute in Anchorage. Boyd testified Fletcher showed little reluctance to participate in the crimes and said the murder was actually Fletcher’s idea. Boyd’s testimony was the basis for the court’s finding that ...