Alabama Man Gets Life Sentence After Dismembering Mom To Put Body in Freezer, Burning Car with Her Remains 20 Miles Away From Their Home

In 2019, an Alabama man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his mother and then dismembering and burning her body.

Penny Newton, 58, was reportedly murdered by her son, Chad Brogdon, in May of this year. He murdered her and dismembered her body, then placed her body parts in a freezer before driving 20 miles and setting fire to her car.

Alabama Man Sentenced to Life for Killing His Mom

Prosecutors claim Brogdon was returning home for Mother's Day weekend in 2019 to see his child and his mother. That was the last time Brogdon's mother, Penny Newton, could be reached.

When Hartford Police responded to a report of a burning automobile across the Choctawhatchee River, they discovered cut-up human parts in the trunk. Brogdon also faces a 20-year sentence in the Department of Corrections for the alleged mistreatment of a body. A $5,000 fine is also attached to this offense. For the murder charge, he was also fined $10,000, according to WDHN.

Debbie Blankenship, Newton's sister, characterizes the incident as "mind-boggling, emotional, and dramatic." Chad Brogdon was sentenced to life in prison plus an extra 20 years in Dale County Circuit Judge William Filmore's courtroom on Thursday, and she and her siblings were there.

Blankenship and the other survivors had asked this, but even though Filmore complied, they felt unsatisfied. "Nothing will bring our sister back, thus there is no justice for her." "It's like if she suddenly vanished," Ms. Blankenship explained.

Chad Brogdon remained expressionless in court as relative after relative testified that they fear him, then highlighted Newton's unwavering love for her son, Dothan WTVY via MSN reported.

Fugitive Casey White's Escape Case

Meanwhile, recaptured convict Casey White was taken to an Alabama state prison early Wednesday, more than a day after his apprehension in Indiana, which concluded an 11-day stint with an Alabama county jail officer who officials claim assisted him in his breakout. Vicky White, the woman suspected of setting him free in late April, died Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities said the gunshots occurred after a vehicle chase and crash that resulted to Casey White'inarrest.

Casey White was brought back to Alabama from Indiana on Tuesday when he appeared in a late-night court appearance in Lauderdale County, where he allegedly fled. Judge Ben Graves informed White during his appearance that he will be charged with first-degree escape, in addition to the capital murder charges he was already facing in the 2015 stabbing death of Alabama resident Connie Ridgeway.

During the hearing, White, who was handcuffed and had shackles around his ankles, listened intently as the judge outlined the charges to him. Throughout the 10-minute hearing, White seemed fatigued and sniffled many times. Four little gashes ran around the back of White's skull, surrounded by a quarter-sized shaved perimeter of hair. His bright yellow jumpsuit had dried blood on the back.

White departed the courthouse immediately following the hearing, looking at the TV cameras and the gathering of onlookers, but he saying nothing. He was sent to the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, which is about 100 miles south of Lauderdale County.

The US Marshals Service said Casey White, 38, and Vicky White, 56, were apprehended near Evansville, Indiana, following a chase that ended when officials caused Casey White's automobile to crash in a ditch. Casey White and Vicky White, the then-Lauderdale County assistant director of prisons, are accused of driving the inmate out of the county detention center in a police car on April 29 under the guise of transporting him to a courthouse.

Authorities say the couple utilized several additional cars over the following week and a half, at least one of which was acquired on the run in Tennessee, and were likely helped by funds from Vicky White's recent house sale, as per CNN.