Colorado teen arrested in 15 yo Anne Kasprzak's 2012 death in Utah/CONVICTED

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-arrest-colorado-teen-in-anne-kasprzak-2012-death/
Police arrest Colorado teen in girl's 2012 death
October 17, 2014

DRAPER, Utah - More than two years after a 15-year-old girl's battered body was found in a Utah river, police arrested a Colorado teenager in her death Thursday.

Authorities say Anne Kasprzak knew the 17-year-old boy, who was arrested Thursday morning in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Police did not name the arrested teenager, who they say lived in Utah on March 11, 2012, when Kasprzak was found dead of blunt force trauma to the head.

Draper police Chief Bryan Roberts released few details about the investigation at a press conference Thursday. He said police never stopped looking for her killer.
 
The teenager has been charged with homicide and will be extradited to Utah. Prosecutor Blake Nakamura said it isn't yet clear whether he'll be tried as an adult.

Police made two previous arrests in the case, but officers now say those men had no connection to the girl's death. The ex-convicts, then 31 and 32, were arrested a few weeks after the death, when someone told police they knocked the girl out and drove away with her body.

Investigators later said the story was made up by a drug addict who wanted to get back at the pair, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Police said they're confident in the latest arrest, though.

Anne Kasprzak's body was discovered after a jogger noticed blood and a shoe on a footbridge over the Jordan River about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City. A helicopter search located her body, which police say was badly beaten.

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Here is an older article for background information. (I've colored the dates in blue)  These two were found not to have had anything to do with Anne's death.

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=19949200
Search warrant reveals disturbing details in teen's death
April 11, 2012

WEST JORDAN — Disturbing new details in the killing of a 15-year-old Riverton girl were revealed this week in a search warrant.

Anne Grace Kasprzak had her head smashed into a wall and was wrapped up in a tarp before being assaulted to the point of being unrecognizable and her body dumped in the Jordan River, according to newly released court documents.

KSTU-TV obtained the search warrant Tuesday before it was sealed by a judge at the request of the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office.

Kazprzak's body was found March 11 in the Jordan River. Investigators said her face was so badly injured that they needed dental records to identify her. They also used scars on her body to help with identification, according to KSTU.

Daniel Robert Lehi Ferry, 31, was arrested for investigation of murder on March 19.  About a week later, police arrested a second man, Veanuia Vehekite, 30, for investigation of the same charge.

According to Ferry's booking sheet, Kasprzak was allegedly beaten after she refused to have sex with Ferry at his house, 9997 S. Poppy Lane (865 East). She was possibly knocked unconscious and then taken away.

According to the newly released search warrant, after Kasprzak apparently had some sexual contact with another person, Ferry told her, "It’s my turn," to which Kasprzak said, "No."

Ferry then "took the victim by the head and smashed her head into the wall," the warrant states. Ferry, along with Vehekite and a third person with the initials L.J., "moved the victim into the garage of the home" and "helped change her clothes, put her on a tarp and wrapped her up," according to the search warrant.

The group put Kasprzak in the back seat of a white Chevrolet Suburban and drove off. About two hours later, all three allegedly came back to the house covered in blood. When asked what happened, Ferry said "she went swimming” and “put up one hell of a fight," the warrant states.


Kasprzak's parents said the teen was at her home, near 12800 South and 2300 West, doing homework the night she disappeared on March 10. She was last seen about 7:45 p.m. About an hour later, her parents called Unified police to report their daughter as a runaway.

It was still unknown Wednesday how Kazprzak allegedly made it from her Riverton home to Ferry's White City house about nine miles away.

No charges have yet been filed in Kazprzak's death.

Ferry was recently sentenced to 30 days in the Salt Lake County Jail for an unrelated offense of driving with no proof of insurance, a class B misdemeanor, and driving with an expired license, a class C misdemeanor.

Vehekite faces charges of aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and cruelty to an animal in an unrelated case. His bail was set at $500,000.
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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?n=anne-grace-kasprzak&pid=156486469
ANNE GRACE KASPRZAK


Obituary| Condolences

Anne Grace Kasprzak Obituary
1997 ~ 2012
Our daughter, Anne Grace Kasprzak, was born January 10, 1997, but it wasn't until years later that she came to meet the people she considers her parents and was adopted into the family that loves her. She was taken from us long before she had the chance to live out her dreams.
"Annie" loved to listen to music and hang out with friends as any teen would. She loved her family and was a superhero to her little brothers and sister. She had a caring spirit that loved so strongly. She taught us and enriched our lives with her presence.
Annie is survived by her parents and step-parents, five brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and friends.
A celebration of Annie's life will be held Saturday March 17 at 4:00 p.m. at the New Creation Church 8700 So. Sandy Parkway (450 W) Sandy, UT 84070

Published in Salt Lake Tribune from Mar. 15 to Mar. 17, 2012

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865613261/Teen-arrested-in-beating-death-of-15-year-old-Riverton-girl.html?pg=all
Charges: 14-year-old beat Riverton girlfriend to death
October 16, 2014, Updated October 17, 2014

DRAPER — Investigators say it was Anne Kasprzak's 14-year-old boyfriend who severely beat her, then dumped her body in the Jordan River in 2012.

Why he allegedly killed her remains a mystery, but investigators say blood evidence, cellphone data, a torn up memo and other evidence have convinced them they have the right guy 2 ½ years later.

The boy, now 17, was arrested in Grand Junction, Colorado, Thursday and charged in 3rd District Juvenile Court with murder, a first-degree felony, and obstructing justice, a second-degree felony.

Prosecutors said they may later push to charge him as an adult. "That's a consideration that we're looking at," said Salt Lake County deputy district attorney Blake Nakamura.

The teenager was being held in a detention center in Grand Junction awaiting extradition to Utah. That process could take several weeks, said Draper Police Chief Bryan Roberts.

The young man lived in Utah when Kasprzak was killed but has recently been living in Colorado.

On the evening of March 10, 2012, Kasprzak was reported missing by her parents. The next day, Draper police responded to 12678 S. Jordan Parkway Trail to a report of blood and a shoe located in the area. Officers found the girl's body further down the Jordan River.

On March 12, 2012, an autopsy determined that she died from "multiple blunt force injuries of the head," according to charging documents.

Police found that "numerous" phone calls were made between Kasprzak and her boyfriend on the evening she went missing, but the phone calls ended after 8:30 p.m., the charges state.

After Kasprzak's body was found, police spoke with her boyfriend and asked for the shoes he was wearing that night. He told officers that his girlfriend had had a bloody nose while at a friend's house two weeks before, and that some of her blood dropped onto his left shoelace, according to charging documents.
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https://kutv.com/news/local/bagshaw-sentenced-15-years-to-life-in-murder-trial-of-girl-found-in-jordan-river

Utah teen sentenced 15 years to life for murder of girlfriend, found in river
by Larry D. Curtis, Madisan Hinkhouse and Dan Rascon Monday, April 25th 2016

PHOTOS at link.

Darwin Christopher Bagshaw will spend 15 years to life in prison for the murder for Annie Kasprazak.

Sentencing for Bagshaw, 18, who confessed to murdering his girlfriend, Annie Kasprzak, and dumping her body in the Jordan River, was held Monday afternoon starting at 2 p.m.

He pleaded guilty to the first-degree felony earlier this year but was 14-years-old when he killed her while under the influence of drugs, according to his defense. He could spend the rest of his life in prison for the first-degree felony murder after a guilty plea to the crime in Feb. 29.

Bagshaw took the stand to speak after the victim's family and prosecutors and defense teams presented facts. 

The defense said Bagshaw high on spice on the night of the murder. Kasprzak showed up to the meeting and told Bagshaw she was pregnant. They say he reacted by hitting her with a shovel several times. An autopsy later showed that she was not pregnant.

RELATED:Teen charged in murdering girlfriend heads to jail

The defense agreed that Bagshaw needed to be punished but said, as a 14-year-old who committed the crime, not as an adult. The defense called for five years to life instead of 15 years to life.

The defense called Dr. Davies, a witness, to talk about Bagshaw's age and brain development at the time of the crime. He said he never evaluated Bagshaw.

"Adolescents are emotionally driven...they do stupid things," Davies said.

Prosecutors said the event was planned and said the victim even plead for her life but was told to shut up and Bagshaw still delivered the fatal blow.

Dennis Kasprzak, the victim's father, said when he identified his daughter, what he saw was not his daughter but something you might see hit by a train. He said she wasn't hit by a shover but repeated hits over and over. Her lips were split and her nose was gone.

He pointed at Bagshaw during sentencing and spoke to him directly.

"You know what you did!"
 

"A terrible crime deserves a serious sentence," the judge said and he handed down the 15-years-to-life sentence.