A woman has pleaded guilty to murder in America and was sentenced to 40 years in prison for brutally killing and dismembering her boyfriend so that she and her biological father could get married.
Amanda McClure, 31, appeared in Court via video on Thursday and entered a guilty plea to a charge of second-degree murder in the February 2019 slaying of John McGuire, 38, of Minnesota. McClure’s father, Larry McClure Sr, 55, was sentenced in August to life without the possibility of parole after he admitted to bludgeoning and strangling McGuire to death. Amanda’s sister, Anna Marie Choudhary, 32, is also facing a first-degree murder charge for allegedly taking part in the crime.
The father and daughters allegedly killed 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 s3x. Just three weeks after the Valentine’s Day 2019 murder, Larry and Amanda traveled to Virginia to get married on March 11.
In court on Thursday, Amanda apologized to McGuire’s mother, Karen Smith, and begged the court for mercy. ‘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.’ When given a chance to speak, Smith said Amanda broke her heart and the hearts of McGuire’s six children, who are still terrified that she will come after them one day, and wondered aloud why she killed her son. ‘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 attempted to offer an explanation for what happened, blaming her father for having 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 described the murder as ‘heinous’ and chided Amanda for failing to take full responsibility for her actions. ‘After killing John, you dug him up later. 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 said. Kornish expressed hope that the 31-year-old defendant, who had a long prior history of drug offenses, would turn her life around in prison and emerge a changed person.
The details of the harrowing murder and of the incestuous relationship between McClure and his daughter Amanda were revealed during a preliminary hearing for the murder case in November. ‘On or about February 14, Mr. John McGuire was struck in the head with a bottle of wine, then tied up, and then injected with two vials of methamphetamine. After the injection, he was strangled,’ West Virginia State Police Trooper K.M. Saddler, the lead investigator in the case, testified in the preliminary hearing.
Larry McClure, was originally arrested for failing to register as a s3x offender, and later disclosed to West Virginia State Police the location of the body, which was found on September 24, 2019. A breakthrough in the case came on November 4 when McClure wrote a letter to police confessing to the crime and detailing the grisly murder.
McClure painted his daughter Amanda as the ringleader of the plot who wrapped a black garbage bag around his neck. He said he does not know her motive for the killing, but alleged she was spending McGuire’s monthly Social Security checks. ‘I cannot tell you why Amanda wanted John McGuire dead,’ he said. ‘I am asking for this to be over and not hurting the family members on both sides of this. John McGuires family and my family.’
The criminal complaint revealed Larry and his daughter, who was raised by adoptive parents, had an incestuous relationship and got married just three weeks after the murder. The two traveled across state lines to Virginia to tie the knot. Their wedding service was presided over by a United Methodist Church minster of the gospel and Amanda wrote the name of another man as her father.
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