Pennsylvania woman Echo Butler will serve two life sentences after she pled guilty to deliberate starvation and death charges. She had starved her girlfriend’s daughters Nicole Elisabeth and Jasmine Jean Snyder, six and four, respectively. The girls were found buried in 2021. Butler and Marie Snyder, who is the girls’ biological mother, are said to have subjected the children to intense physical and verbal abuse, restraint, and starvation, according to a preliminary hearing held on March 16. Echo Butler’s mother Michele Butler assisted them.
On Friday, following her guilty plea to two counts of criminal conspiracy to commit murder in the starvation case involving the two girls, the 27-year-old Echo Butler from Lycoming County was sentenced without the possibility of parole.
The bodies of Nicole and Jasmine were found in a shallow grave behind a mobile home at 635 Livermore Road in Hepburn Township in November 2021. Butler and Snyder admitted their roles in the conspiracy before county judge Nancy L. Butts. Prosecutors claim that the 4-year-old was buried next to her sister. District attorney Ryan Gardner had demanded the death penalty for Butler.
Butts outlined the case’s facts based on the evidence presented in the courtroom and questioned Butler about whether she and Snyder had consciously planned to kill the girls between January 1, 2015, and November 6, 2021. Investigators believe that Nicole Snyder died and was buried in 2016, while her sister died and was buried in 2017, both in makeshift graves. Butts admitted that she made them stand in a corner with tied hands and watch people eat.
In October, Snyder also pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Snyder also told the judge she collected food stamps and cash assistance as if they were alive. Snyder’s sentencing has not taken place. Michele Butler spent more than a year behind bars on charges that included third-degree homicide. She had been granted a special release on bail and intended to cooperate and enter a guilty plea.
According to Butts, the first life sentence will be served concurrently with the fraudulent acceptance of the cash assistance. Praising the efforts of the state police, former Old Lycoming Township Police Department, FBI, and county detectives, he stated that the two precious souls were deprived of “a chance at life,” and “frozen in time.”
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