A West Virginia woman has been sentenced for forty years in prison after she plead guilty to the brutal murder of her boyfriend, who she allegedly killed so that she could have sex with and marry her own biological father.
Daily Mail [1] reported that Amanda McClure, 31, appeared in McDowell County Circuit Court virtually last week to plead guilty to a charge of second-degree murder in the February 2019 slaying of John McGuire, 38, of Minnesota. This came weeks after her father Larry McClure Sr, 55, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for bludgeoning and strangling McGuire to death, a heinous crime that the has admitted to carrying out.
Amanda’s sister, Anna Marie Choudhary, 32, has also been hit with a first-degree murder charge for her alleged role in the crime.
Larry and his daughters allegedly murdered McGuire together and buried his body in a shallow grave on their property before later moving the body to a location in Skygusty, West Virginia, where Larry and Amanda McClure had sex. Three weeks after McGuire’s death, Larry and Amanda traveled to Virginia to get married on March 11.
Amanda spoke out in court to apologize to McGuire’s mother, Karen Smith, and to beg the judge for leniency.
“I have to look at myself every day,” she said. “My family didn’t raise me to be this way. I’ve not only hurt John’s family, I’ve hurt my own family.”
Smith fired back by saying that Amanda broke her heart as well as the hearts of McGuire’s six kids, who she said are still terrified she’ll come after them someday.
“She and her sister and her daddy are going straight to hell,” Smith said. “I can’t forgive her right now. Maybe later, but I can’t forgive her right now.”
Amanda tried to place the blame on her father, claiming that he was a bad influence on her.
“My dad didn’t want anyone else near me,” she said. “John told Larry that he loved me and we were going to get married. I wish I could bring John back. He was a good man.”
Presiding Judge Ed Kornish slammed Amanda for not taking responsibility for her “heinous” actions.
“After killing John, you dug him up later,” the judge said. “When you all dug him up his body was dismembered and stakes of some kind were driven through his body…Then you reburied him…there was no reason for this.”
He also expressed hopes that Amanda, who has a long history of drug offenses, can turn her life around in prison.
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com [2] and is used by permission.
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