The death of the 41-year-old mother, whose two children, ages eight and four, were discovered hanging from the basement some years earlier, carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
After a seven-day bench trial, the Berks County District Attorney’s Office announced on September 26 that Lisa Snyder was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the murders of her children, Conner and Brinley. On October 17, Snyder is expected to get a sentence.
Berks County District Attorney John Adams stated during a press conference streamed live by WFMZ-TV in 2019 that Snyder had phoned 911 on September 23, 2019, upon discovering her children unresponsive and hanging.
When emergency personnel got there, they discovered that the victims had wire wound around their necks and that two chairs had apparently fallen on their sides. Three days later, the children were declared dead.
According to Adams, it was a “horrific, tragic incident” that involved “emotional investigation.”
The district attorney claims that after searching the residence, detectives discovered that Snyder had placed an order for the wire on September 22, 2019, and that she had picked it up the next morning.
During an interview with Pennsylvania State Police, Snyder allegedly stated that her kid was being bullied and “wanted to die.”
According to the mother, her son brought his sister with him since he was afraid to go to the basement by himself.
Additionally, Snyder stated her kid had informed her he “hated school.” However, there were no overt indications of anxiety in the security footage from the boy’s school bus. According to the district attorney, Conner “looked like a happy child.”
Conner never complained about comparable problems, according to witnesses, and another resident of the home claimed the youngster never brought up being bullied at school.
The district attorney also stated that Conner was found to be incapable of harming his sister or killing himself due to physical limitations by an occupational therapist.
Adams claims Snyder told investigators that her kids frequently played in the basement, but the other resident claimed the kids “hardly ever played in the basement.”
Authorities discovered that Snyder searched for a variety of topics online, including hanging oneself, carbon monoxide, and efficient ways to hang someone. Snyder reportedly looked through episodes of the documentary crime series “I Almost Got Away with It.”
Read Also: Maryland Mother Faces Charges After Shooting Her 13-Year-Old Daughter
The victims’ deaths were judged homicides when a coroner decided they were hanginged to death.
As for Snyder’s motivation, Adams claimed that she had “expressed to a friend that she had enough.”
Officials also allegedly found digital evidence over the course of the inquiry, which showed “photos and conversations regarding sexually explicit messages about the dog performing sexual acts on the defendant.”
Leave a Reply