Us soldier is 23 years old for killing a pregnant woman with a machete, derogating from garbage
Wheeler’s army aerodrome, Hawaii – An American military soldier based in Hawaii was sentenced Thursday to 23 years in prison for killing his wife and child to be born last summer and tried to hide crime by dismembering and having his body in the trash.
PFC. Dewayne Johnson II pleaded guilty earlier in the week for a voluntary homicide, an obstruction of justice and a false official declaration, the army office said a special trial lawyer in a statement.
His wife, Mischa Johnson, was 19 years old and six months pregnant at the time of his death on July 12, 2024. His body was not found.
Johnson, of the 25th infantry division, told the judge during a testimony in a military courtroom that he had hit his wife with a machete at their home at the Schofield barracks on Oahu after an argument, Kitv reported.
He said that he had broken after his wife shouted that his child could not exist. He hit her on her head, and she stopped breathing and had no pulse. He said he didn’t intend to kill her.
“I couldn’t imagine my life without my child,” he said. “I regret, I shouldn’t have done it.”
He used a chain saw to cut his wife’s body to hide the murder and placed his parts of the body in garbage bags he put in a dumpster in his unit. He said he heard that the garbage had been taken directly from an incinerator.
Johnson reported that his wife who disappeared on July 31, more than two weeks after his death. He joined research evenings looking for research around Oahu. He was accused of his murder on August 27 after the army investigators found blood, DNA and other evidence in his home.
The prosecutors said that Johnson, of Frederick, Maryland, had been sentenced to maximum law. They abandoned the image of sexual abuses on children under the terms of their advocacy agreement.
The rank of Johnson will be reduced to private and he will lose wages and indemnities and will be dehoniously discharged. He will serve his sentence in a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Marianna Tapiz told Kitv that he was shocking and painful to hear what happened to her sister.
“As a family together, we just try not to focus on the horrible details of his last moment with him,” said Tapiz. “And instead, at the moment, we are trying to remember the happy memories that we have and remember her in this life.”
Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Hurd, Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Hurd, said that he hoped that legal proceedings will help the family to cure.
“Although no quantity of confinement is never able to really relieve the pain of the loss of Mrs. Johnson and her child to be born for her family and friends, I hope that PFC. Johnson’s guilt admissions and the information he provided as part of the advocacy agreement could provide an element of closure and finality for the family and all the actors, “said Hurd in a declaration.
