Sentenced: Matthew Dotson Killed Misty Marshall & Her 9yo Son, After He Is Discovered Molesting Son

[Sugar Cookie]

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9/19/17

The state contends Matthew Dotson murdered his fiance when she discovered him molesting her nine-year-old son in their Simpson home, then killed the boy when he was through with him. The defense says that is conjecture and doesn’t meet the standard of proof.

Dotson is accused of killing Misty Marshall, 32, and her son Day-Min, 9, on Nov. 29-30, 2015 by crushing their skulls with a mallet. Asst. DA Lee Hall, Jr. told the jury of nine women and three men that the mother and son died by blunt force trauma, adding underwear jammed down the boy’s throat also caused asphyxiation.

He asserted the child’s legs, arms, wrists and head were wrapped in duct tape at the time.

The state claims Dotson put the child’s body in a dilapidated vehicle on the Acorn Drive property, where it was discovered about two weeks later. Dotson then tried, the state contends, to lift Marshall’s body into his pickup truck after wrapping it in sheets and bubble wrap. He was unsuccessful.

Marshall’s 14-year-old daughter and the couple’s two-year-old daughter were sleeping in the opposite end of the trailer. When the teenager awakened and asked about her mother, the state claims, Dotson said she had gone to Shreveport.

When the daughter, Jasmine, walked outside, the state says, she discovered her mother laid out and attached to an engine hoist. Dotson then threatened her with a gun, the state alleges, telling her to help load the body in the truck or meet the same end.

http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com...led-fiance-after-discovered-molesting-her-son

Misty & Day-Min

http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com...led-fiance-after-discovered-molesting-her-son

 

[Nell]

Day-min is a weird name.

Sad shit man. Glad he didn't kill the teen or the baby.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

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9/19/17

The state contends Matthew Dotson murdered his fiance when she discovered him molesting her nine-year-old son in their Simpson home, then killed the boy when he was through with him. The defense says that is conjecture and doesn’t meet the standard of proof.

Dotson is accused of killing Misty Marshall, 32, and her son Day-Min, 9, on Nov. 29-30, 2015 by crushing their skulls with a mallet. Asst. DA Lee Hall, Jr. told the jury of nine women and three men that the mother and son died by blunt force trauma, adding underwear jammed down the boy’s throat also caused asphyxiation.

He asserted the child’s legs, arms, wrists and head were wrapped in duct tape at the time.

The state claims Dotson put the child’s body in a dilapidated vehicle on the Acorn Drive property, where it was discovered about two weeks later. Dotson then tried, the state contends, to lift Marshall’s body into his pickup truck after wrapping it in sheets and bubble wrap. He was unsuccessful.

Marshall’s 14-year-old daughter and the couple’s two-year-old daughter were sleeping in the opposite end of the trailer. When the teenager awakened and asked about her mother, the state claims, Dotson said she had gone to Shreveport.

When the daughter, Jasmine, walked outside, the state says, she discovered her mother laid out and attached to an engine hoist. Dotson then threatened her with a gun, the state alleges, telling her to help load the body in the truck or meet the same end.

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Misty & Day-Min

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[doublepost=1505967891,1505967809][/doublepost]Sorry Duplicated by Accident. Can Someone merge for me.

 

[Satarah]

Day-min is a weird name.

I thought the same thing, unless it's meant to be pronounced like Damien or Damon? Just a thought, still weird.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

What kind of neck tattoo is that? Looks like a "strangle me here" guide line.

He couldn't move the boy's body and had the mother's body on an engine hoist and made the daughter help him at gunpoint? Is he disabled?
What else did those children witness in the house before the murders?

 

[Craygor]

You know this ugly scumbag was banging the 14 year old girl, before he decided to sodomize the boy.

 

[Victoria]

The 14 year old woke up to a nightmare she was then asked to participate in.

That's going to leave one hellish mark... on her mind and her heart.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

http://www.beauregarddailynews.net/...dnt-want-death-penalty-in-vernon-murders-case

Day-Min Marshall died with fists clenched, apparently as he struggled to free himself from multiple wraps of duct tape around his wrists, thighs and head. He was nine-years-old, less than five feet tall and weighed 55 pounds.

His killer, Matthew Dotson, about 6′2″ and around 200 pounds, held the murder weapon, a rubber mallet, in hands labeled “P-U-R-E E-V-I-L” across the knuckles.

Dotson was convicted Thursday of two counts of first-degree murder, a jury finding he killed Day-Min and the boy’s mother, Misty Marshall, 32, the weekend after Thanksgiving, 2015.
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She testified she was given a choice by Dotson — help hide her mother’s body or face the same fate — then taken on a flight across the Deep South as the killer futilely sought to escape apprehension.

Defense attorney Bob Noel picked at the mostly circumstantial aspects of the state’s case and questioned the teenager’s credibility as he tried to raise reasonable doubt in minds of the nine women and three men on the jury.

He noted the coroner’s report mentioned no sexual assault of Day-Min. The state claimed that when the mother discovered that assault, she was killed. He questioned why she didn’t escape Dotson’s hold on her at any one of numerous stops between Vernon Parish and South Carolina, why she didn’t hear any of the events allegedly taking place in the trailer living room while she slept just yards away, and why Dotson didn’t just kill her outright.

That question, and others, was left unanswered by Dotson. Neither he nor anyone else was called to the stand by the defense, which is not required to put on witnesses.

Prosecutor Lee Hall, Jr. told jurors that to find Dotson not guilty would be a “shocking denial of what is.”

“I defy you to come up with another explanation of what happened,” he said.

He said the defense had to attack Jasmine’s testimony.

“He (Dotson) didn’t hurt her because she was his next sexual object. There is no floor to his depravity,” Hall said.

 

[Sejanus]

Depraved animal.
He is a mistake that should be unmade.

 

[Freyjacat]

If anyone deserves the death penalty, it's this asshole.

Hope he is tortured to death in prison after making a fine wife to one of the inmates inside.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

http://www.kalb.com/content/news/Do...pathizes-with-victims-daughter-450827743.html

Judge Clark ultimately said it was this court's wish that Dotson never see daylight outside of a jail cell again. So he handed down two life sentences without the possibility of parole, and ruled that they run consecutively.