Ashley was working as a delivery driver for Biggs Domino when she stumbled upon a business in Ohio one summer night in 2012. Biggs, an Army veterinarian and mother of a young daughter, did not know the company was closed. Or the clerk who ordered the large half-mushroom, half-paper pie used the nickname.
The midnight delivery was a way to keep 25-year-old Big in the lure of his death. At the time, Biggs was in the midst of a heavy custody battle with Chad Cobb, her ex-boyfriend and the father of her 7-year-old child. When the Biggs arrived, Cobb was waiting in the parking lot with a t-shirt and a foot-zip-tie, which worked to strangle her.
Cobain threw Biggs ‘body into the trunk of his car and left the vehicle in Cornfield, near his parents’ home in Vehicle County. Records A 0-year-old father – who had a history of domestic violence allegations related to Biggs – released court records – pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murder in 2013 to avoid the death penalty.
But it wasn’t until November 2019 that the New Franklin Cops announced that Cobb was complicit in the ailment: his ex-wife, Erica Stefanko, who had gone with Erica Leon before divorcing Coribe and married a childhood friend. .
For seven years, Detective Michael Hutchings kept an eye on Stefanko. His break in the case came with a secretly recorded call between Stefanco and Cobb’s mother, Cindy, who testified that Stefanco ordered pizza and tried to cover up the murder.
“Every time I hear a siren, I think, ‘They’re coming for me,'” Stefanco told Cobb. Acron Beacon Journal.
“I did my part. I did exactly what he told me to do. At one point in the recording, Stefanko claimed that Koben had said he wanted to “save Biggs’ skull as a trophy.”
Prosecutors said Stefanko was with Cobb when he ordered the pizza, then left him in the parking lot to do the evil deed alone. She later knocked Cobild off at Cornfield and gave him a ride home after Biggs’ car crashed.
On Wednesday, Stefanco was convicted of aggravated murder for his role in the murder plot. The jury, which aired on court TV over a three-day period at the Summit County Trial, considered for more than 14 hours. Beacon Journal Report.
“She told me that if I told my dad what he was doing to me, he would do badly.”
The 37-year-old mom eventually chose not to testify at her own murder trial. Just before the verdict, the killer was looking at the stepmom defense table, his face slightly covered with a mask due to COVID-19. She leaned back and rolled her eyes, mostly in disbelief, when the judge declared her guilty of aggravated murder. Stefanko was not convicted of other crimes, including kidnapping and aggravated robbery.
When the sentence is handed down in January, Stefanco faces life behind bars.
“Evidence and testimony show that she participated from the beginning, the middle and the end,” said Assistant Prosecutor Felicia Easter, closing the arguments. Gave a ride. At home so that he could shed blood on his body, and returned to the crime scene in an attempt to clear the evidence.
“It’s all because of Estelle Biggs and her reluctance to get custody of GC – the custodial fight – revenge – all of this,” Easter said, referring to her daughter.
Steffenko’s lawyer, Carrie O’Brien, said Cobb now denies killing Biggs despite his guilty plea; He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture, and that his confession had been obtained through torture. He said Kobebe had another reason to testify against Stefanco: she divorced him after the murder and married his best friend, who is helping raise her children.
“Here is a man who has confessed his guilt. He nodded, admitting he strangled Ashley Biggs… and still trying to get out of it. How reliable is that type of person? O’Brien said during the summit.
O’Brien also targeted Cindy Cobb, who admitted she hoped her son would one day be released from prison. Cindy used a digital recorder in March 2014 to have a lengthy conversation with Steff, but did not hand it over to police until 2018. “If it had been said that this is exactly what happened, we would be in jail right now. That’s very true, “Stefanko said in a three-hour chat, some of which were played on the court.
“The conversation was probably tapped because Chad Cobb told him to do it,” O’Brien said of Steff Steenko’s secret recording of Cindy. “He wanted to get out of jail. The appeal did not work. Well, that was the plan. Let’s go with Plan B. Let’s see if my mom can take it to make some kind of statement on the recording. “
“Chad Cobb is not only the real culprit, the state agrees with me, but I can also argue that Chad Cobb has hatched a conspiracy to drown him. [Stefanko] But the real reason is here … it’s really simple: it’s revenge, ” O’Brien said.
“Everyone, including the defendant, has a purpose,” LP Prinzi said in denial.
“Please don’t let sympathy get involved, don’t worry about Ms. Stefankonko,” Loprinji told Juro. “It simply came to our notice then. GCA lost her mother and her father and she is testifying against someone here whom she calls mom. The children will survive. Don’t worry about Erica [Stefanko’s] Emotions. Just, as she says, she didn’t feel bad about Ashley, not even the moments before her life ended.
“When you hear his words, please trust him.”
Kobe refused to co-operate with police against Stefanco until 2017, when he claimed he was upset that he would not be able to see his children, and wrote a letter to Hutchings saying he would eventually seduce his ex-wife. “Did it feel like Chad could seek some kind of revenge?” O’Brien asked Hutchings. “For me, he was trying to get the whole story out, I guess that’s what happened that night,” Hutchings replied.
Both Big’s daughter, now 15, and Kobe testified against Stef Steenko.
The daughter said she doesn’t remember Biggs, who resumed her life in 2011 after being raised primarily by the Cobbs. But the young woman said she remembers Stefanco, whom he described as mentally and physically abusive. “She used to tell me that if I told my dad what he was doing to me, he would do worse.”
“I remember he would grab me on the ground and he would hit me, and then he even ate me dog feces,” the girl said. When asked in the proceedings, the young woman replied, “Because he is jealous of my relationship with my father.” The young woman said she still loves her dad and wants him out of jail.
According to Beacon Journal, The teenager said she was in the back seat of a car in the “Peach Black” location when she heard a voice calling for pizza using a different name to Stefan anko sitting in the passenger seat. She said she fell asleep in the car and woke up the next morning at her grandparents’ house.
Kobe testified via video from prison. On the night of the murder, he was “walking in circles” near a tree, wearing a camouflage and waiting for the Biggs after Stefanko called for pizza. When assistant prosecutor Brian Loprinzi asked, “Is it fair to say that Ashley didn’t leave the parking lot alive that night?” Kobe replied, “Yes sir, that’s right.”
He said he met Biggs at the Roller Rink around 2003, when he returned home from the military, where he had been for six months after high school. “It’s a complicated answer, I guess, but it wasn’t just for me,” Kobe asked, asking why he said goodbye. He went on to run a cable installation company. He said he and Biggs started out as friends and over time their love affair developed.
Kobe said Biggs left him and his daughter months after the girl’s birth in 2005. Biggs joined the Army and pursued other ties, he said. “She wasn’t around,” Kobe told the court. “I’m not saying it’s rude.” He said he met Stefanko via MySpace in December 2006 and she immediately walked away with him. Within a few years, they started a family of their own.
Meanwhile, Biggs was in a three-year relationship with 30-year-old Brittany Dunson, who testified that Biggs said Cobb was abusive and controlled. Dunson said Biggs received temporary custody of his daughter after receiving letters from the County Children’s Services Board, which opened an investigation into her daughter’s well-being. (Cobb and his family reunite with their daughter months later.)
The couple and the young woman left for a visit when Cobb’s mother and grandmother came to Dunson’s mother’s house, Dunson said. “We just tried to walk inside. I remember trying to tell her grandmother Ashley [the daughter] He didn’t know who she was, and Ashley shouldn’t have done this, “Dunson testified. Since then, Biggs has been embroiled in a court battle with Cobb. Not neglected.
Kobe claimed he pleaded guilty in 2013 because a judge warned him that his children would be adopted into the foster care system. He started refusing to meet with his children when he was imprisoned then he trapped Stefano.
The killer had two children with Dad and Stefanko, while Cobb and Biggs had one daughter, and Stefano also had another child from a previous relationship. According to Court TV, the four children, aged 2.5 months to 6 years, were in the car while Stefanko drove to the murder scene and to Cornfield.
Biggs’ friends and family rejoiced after the verdict.
“They got it. ‘She got it,’ Biggs ’mother wrote on Facebook. “Final Justice.”
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