Kansas woman who barricaded herself in BR motel sentenced to life without parole for murder

BATON ROUGE – A Kansas woman convicted of murder after a missing Georgia man’s body parts were discovered by a couple in 2023 was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Danetta Knoblauch of Wichita, Kan., was found guilty of multiple charges, including felony murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, arson and concealing the death of another after the death of Melvin Cooksey.

Knoblauch was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole plus thirty years in prison due to “particularly heinous nature of her crimes, her steps to try to cover-up her murder of Cooksey, her lack of remorse or taking responsibility, and her history,” the Alcovy Circuit District Attorney Randy McGinley said…

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