Man guilty of killing, dismembering girl [and feeding her to dogs]

The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 9/7/02 | Carlos Sadovi

[LibWhacker]

Everette Johnson was convicted Friday of killing his 15-month-old daughter, then dismembering the body and feeding it to dogs.

Cook County Judge Lon William Shultz spared Johnson the death penalty despite the gruesome way Johnson and the girl's mother, Joan Tribblet, disposed of the frail, 18-pound body of Oncwanique Tribblet on Dec. 19, 1997.

Shultz said the actions of both parents showed "combined malignancies of their hearts.''

"Mr. Johnson and Ms. Tribblet opened a window for everyone to see into the deepest and darkest depravity of their flawed human souls,'' Shultz said.

The judge admitted the way the toddler's murder was hidden from police and even family for more than six months was heinous. But he said the way the girl was killed--choked and beaten with a ruler by both parents--was not extreme enough to warrant the death penalty.

Prosecutors Frank Marek and Veryl Gambino said Johnson could receive up to 100 years in prison for the killing and five years in prison for concealing the murder. They called the way the toddler's body was disposed of the worst case of concealment they had seen.

Johnson's lawyers blamed the killing on the mother. Tribblet was sentenced to 60 years in prison Aug. 30 after testifying against Johnson and pinning the girl's death on him.

She claimed the death was accidental and said the couple had been sleeping when Oncwanique woke up at 4 a.m. and roused her and later Johnson. While she admits grabbing the girl in a stranglehold by the neck, she said Johnson hit the girl with a ruler several times while holding her face down on the bed.

The girl finally went limp, she said.

Johnson cut up the girl's body and told Tribblet to cook it. But they stopped because there was so much smoke that a neighbor summoned a Chicago Fire Department truck. Some of the remains were then fed to dogs, and the rest were dumped into a pot of acid.

[LibWhacker]

Horrible beyond belief. What's happening to mankind?

[Truth29]

What does it take to get the death penalty? If not this, then what?

[11B3]

It's time for sickos like these to be sentenced to die in the same way that they killed their victims. Then, and only then, will the law start to have a deterrent value to these POS subhuman f_ckers. No appeals on some technicality, only on whether or not they were actually guilty. If they are found guilty following that one appeal, sentence to be meted out the following morning. There wouldn't be any shortage of volunteers to do the deed. Hell, you could sell raffle tickets for that duty.

[Texas_Jarhead]

no words

[Mr. Mojo]

But he [the judge] said the way the girl was killed--choked and beaten with a ruler by both parents--was not extreme enough to warrant the death penalty.

Really? Not cruel enough?

Evil beyond belief.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

This is another example of why we need to support President Bush with his judicial appointments. Funny, when Clintoon made an appointment, it was called an appointment. When Bush makes an appointment, it's called a 'nomination'.

[csvset]

I was hoping to find pictures of these two evil monsters. No luck. I've read that Illinois' governor is considering doing away with the death penalty. If anyone deserves the death penalty, it's these two.

[LenS]

The Federal Courts, Bush and the morons in the Senate have nothing to do with this case. This is a local judge.

[LenS]

This is Illinois. For some insane reason, the governor and much of the political establishment there are on a campaign to end the death penalty and commute all current sentences. The judge probably figured why bother with a death penalty since it'll never be implemented and it would increase the chances of these scum getting a retrial.

[itzmygun]

I know of only one way to stop this. Kill them by horrific means, and broadcast it over every TV station. Every 60 seconds a voice announces, "This is what we do to people who kill helpless children. This is what will happen to you if you kill a helpless child."

Also, that judge should be whipped and banished. If he's this insensitive, he has no business being where he is.

[csvset]

Joan Tribblet

Not sure who the child is. I hope that Joan and Everette are dealt a large dose of prison style justice.

[rambo316]

These are f--king animals, no lower than that, subanimal. They should be stoned to death in public. What scum. Could it be because they are black? Could be. Tell me, what is the diffence between an animal that rapes and kills a little girl and a subanimal that strangles beats their own child with a ruler?

[thisiskubrick]

Um, what about Jeffery Dhalmer, he was just as bad.

[StDonTheBaptist]

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

[CWRWinger]

Cook County Judge Lon William Shultz spared Johnson the death penalty..

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Include the judge in with the 'desperately wicked'.

[gcruse]

But he said the way the girl was killed--choked and beaten
with a ruler by both parents--was not extreme enough to warrant
the death penalty.

Thought crime is a reality in America.  The
parental killing of an infant is ameliorated by
the fact of insufficent barbarity.  It's a good
thing we have WTC to mourn over.  It takes
our minds off the atrocities performed daily
elsewhere.

[Terriergal]

Oh God help us.

[Terriergal]

Include the judge in with the 'desperately wicked'.

YEP

[MotleyGirl70]

The judge admitted the way the toddler's murder was hidden from police and even family for more than six months was heinous. But he said the way the girl was killed--choked and beaten with a ruler by both parents--was not extreme enough to warrant the death penalty.

NOT EXTREME ENOUGH??????????

I wonder what this judge would consider "extreme" enough to warrant the death penalty.