A young mom’s slaying was horrific. Then came the cruelties of a California court

It took only a few hours for Stockton police to make an arrest in one of the city’s most gruesome crimes in recent memory, the slaying of a woman stabbed so many times the coroner described it as “overkill.”

The first call came at 9:15 a.m. on Aug. 13, 2017. Officers summoned to the home of Angenai Terlouw and Daniel Winkler found blood on the bathroom walls and pooled in the tub. Fifteen minutes later and 1½ miles away, police discovered Terlouw’s body. She had been folded in half, bound with duct tape in a tarp and a pink baby blanket, and stuffed face down in a green trash bin.

By noon, Winkler was in custody, and was soon charged with murdering his 37-year-old girlfriend, the mother of their two children — a boy who was then 5 and a 3-year-old girl…

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