Divorced for Only One Month, Michael Stayer Beats His Ex-Wife to Death with a Hammer with the Children Home

A Whitestown nurse died a day after police said she was beaten bloody and unconscious with a hammer in her upscale townhome.

Her ex-husband will be charged with murder next week, authorities said.

Michael Stayer, 31, Zionsville, had called police to report he'd been beaten with a hammer by his wife, but paramedics and authorities found more than his injured hand. Beth Stayer, 32, was unresponsive in her 2-year-old child's bedroom in the new townhome they shared with her 5-year-old, police said...

Another neighbor, Bob Jordan, 47, is a pastor who moved in across the street from Beth Stayer last month. Jordan said he hopes the "tragic" event underscores the need for battered women to seek help...


**Blog Author note: Battered women need to seek PROTECTION not "help", when they have already left like this woman, Beth Stayer, did.

Batterers, are the people who need to seek "help."**

Family begs judge to send dad to prison

Family member after family member stood up and railed against Ronald A. Dority at his sentencing Friday, telling Erie County Common Pleas Judge Tygh Tone that Dority must go to prison for the brutal kidnapping of his estranged wife.

The words carried weight with Tone, who sentenced the 44-year-old Bellevue man to 12 years in prison. He faced a maximum of 23 years behind bars.

Dority terrorized his now ex-wife Beth the night of June 16. He broke into her Herr Road home in Margaretta Township, where he found Beth in bed and choked her, according to police. He then dragged her to the garage, wrapped a chainsaw chain around her wrists, pushed her into a Chevrolet Suburban, then drove her around until he needed to stop for gas...

Penalty Phase in Reaves Trial

A Henry County jury will decided whether a Stockbridge father lives or dies.

It took them eleven hours to return guilty verdicts against Rodney Reaves in the death of his daughter Joella.

The jury convicted Reaves of felony murder, aggravated battery, and two counts of cruelty to children. Reaves could be seen weeping as the jury foreman read the verdict...

Macon man pleads guilty in gang rape, beating of woman

A 26-year-old Macon man has been sentenced to serve 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape, according to the Bibb County District Attorney’s office.

Terry Sherrod Jackson also must serve five years on probation, said Assistant District Attorney Dorothy Hull.

Jackson and two other men -- 34-year-old James Harris and 41-year-old Wendell Simmons -- brutally raped a 53-year-old Macon woman on June 10, 2005...

Man accused of stabbing ex-girlfriend's date arrested for attempted murder

A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend's date in the neck is sitting in jail on an attempted murder charge.

Keith Hamilton, 19, and the woman still live in the same home in the 80 block of Southeast 7th Street, Fort Lauderdale police spokeswoman Yvette Martinez said today. The woman went on a date last night with Jewel Wilson, 21...