“Evil Teen” Gets 52-to-Life For Macabre Murders of Davis Couple
Dubbed “The Evil Teen” by a New York Daily News reporter, Daniel Marsh, 17, a Davis resident, has been sentenced to life for the brutal mutilations and stabbing murders of a prominent elderly Davis couple.
In making his case that Marsh should receive the maximum sentence, Yolo County Prosecutor Michael Cabral told Yolo Superior Court Judge David Reed, “I’ve never seen a defendant with such an evil soul as this defendant in 28 years as a prosecutor,” according to a CBS Sacramento report.
In the months prior to April 14, 2013, Marsh entertained fantasies of becoming a serial murderer while following gruesome Internet websites that depicted decapitations and other mutilations. Then, in the early morning hours of that Sunday morning, Marsh horrifically transformed his fantasies into reality when he broke into the south Davis condominium where Oliver “Chip” Northup and his wife Claudia Maupin were sleeping.
Then 15, Marsh had meticulously planned the murders, dressing in black, wearing a black ski cap shoplifted from a Davis store, wrapping his sneakers in duct tape to leave no evidence and stealing a hunting knife from relatives. Upon entering the couple’s bedroom, he watched them sleep and then hacked them to death.
After listening to Cabral, and Marsh’s attorney, Ron Johnson, Yolo Superior Court Judge David Reed laid into Marsh during the December 12 hearing. “The murders in this case were brutal, the victims were random,” Reed said, according to the Sacramento Bee. “He tortured them and took pleasure in what he had done. He told friends. He slaughtered Northup and Maupin out of morbid curiosity.”
After receiving his sentence Marsh was transported back to the Yolo juvenile detention facility in Woodland, where he has been held since June of 2013, when he was arrested by Davis police for the murders after being tipped off by former friends of Marsh’s. On his eighteenth birthday, Marsh will be sent to state prison to serve the rest of his life term. He will eligible for his first parole hearing in 25 years.
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