Woman found with daughter’s body in 2018 pleads guilty to murder

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Jacksonville pistillate arrested successful 2017 aft clang successful West Virginia

Tygart Valley Regional Jail booking photograph of Erica Newsome shown connected photograph of constabulary searching Newsome's Jacksonville home.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville pistillate who constabulary said was recovered with the assemblage of her 11-year-old girl pursuing a clang successful West Virginia has pleaded blameworthy to murder.

Erica Newsome, 37, was primitively charged with second-degree execution aft the clang successful August 2017. She was aboriginal indicted successful 2018 connected a first-degree execution charge. Additional charges of aggravated kid maltreatment and kid neglect were dropped.

Investigators said Newsome was lasting adjacent to her daughter’s body near an embankment wherever her motortruck crashed. The trooper who responded to the clang said helium discovered the assemblage wrapped successful a comforter astir 150 yards from the country of the crash.

According to the constabulary report, witnesses told constabulary she struck a guardrail connected Allegheny Mountain, a mile-and-a-half westbound of the Virginia border, past removed her daughter’s assemblage from the truck.

An apprehension warrant for Newsome, filed by the State Attorney’s Office, details the injuries recovered connected 11 twelvemonth aged Kaye-lea Plummer’s body. It besides reveals cellphone searches Newsome made earlier investigators said she near her location successful the Oceanway vicinity of Jacksonville to caput to Buffalo, New York, wherever Kaye-lea’s begetter lives.

According to the warrant, immoderate of the searches included Alligator Ponds,” “Fatal Bridge Accidents successful Jacksonville,” “Fatal Car Accidents disconnected Cliffs successful Flames,” “People Killed connected Virginia Cliffs” and “Virginia Highways that Has Huge Cliff.”

The aesculapian examiner successful West Virginia determined the mode of decease to beryllium homicide, saying determination were aggregate injuries connected the 11-year-old’s body, which were “evidence of aggravated kid abuse,” according to the warrant.

The injuries to the victim’s head, torso and extremities “were determined to beryllium owed to battle and contributed to her death,” the warrant says.

Since the crash, Newsome has remained successful a jailhouse successful West Virginia.