DeBlase children murders

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The DeBlase children murders were an infanticide that occurred over a three-month period between March 4, 2010 and June 20, 2010, when two young children, Natalie Alexis DeBlase (November 4, 2005 – March 4, 2010) and Jonathan Chase DeBlase (December 29, 2006 – June 20, 2010), aged four and three respectively, were murdered by their father and stepmother, John Joseph DeBlase (born 1983) and Heather Leavell-Keaton (born 1988), who had abused the two children for several months before their deaths. The couple were arrested in December 2010 on suspicion for the disappearance of the two children, which thus brought the murders into revelation. The bodies of both Chase and Natalie were eventually discovered by the police in Mississippi and Alabama respectively. The couple were eventually convicted of murdering the children and sentenced to death in separate trials between 2014 and 2015. Currently, DeBlase is incarcerated on death row at the Holman Correctional Facility while Leavell-Keaton is...

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