Oncwanique Tribblet
Dec. 19, 1997
Chicago, Illinois
Joan Tribblet and Everette Johnson choked & beat their infant girl to death to stop her from crying and then,
to cover up the crime, cut her body into small pieces, breaded and fried them, and fed some of her parts to alley dogs and put her head in a blender while the rest of her body soaked in a pot of acid.
Task force lawyers were successful in sparing both from the death penalty.
Police: Parents Put Baby in Acid June 13, 1998 - AP-NY-2152EDT
CHICAGO (AP) - A couple was charged Saturday with killing their 16-month-old daughter, then putting her body in a pot of battery acid and hiding her body parts that did not disintegrate.
``No one can recall parents inflicting such horrific, unspeakable acts on their child,'' police Lt. Robert Cornfield said.
Joan Tribblet, 27, and Everett Johnson, 29, were charged with first-degree murder and concealing a homicide in the Dec. 19 death of Oncwanique Tribblet.
The girl's maternal grandmother filed a missing persons report Tuesday after becoming suspicious about the couple's stories of the girl's whereabouts.
Detective Steve Glynn said the parents confessed when they were brought in for questioning. They were being held pending a hearing Monday.
Police said the toddler was either suffocated or strangled when she wouldn't go to sleep.
``The father put the girl into a pot and put battery acid into the pot and stirred it around. They buried the body parts at various locations,'' Glynn said.
The couple's three other small children were placed under state care.
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Illinois Couple Is Held In Death of an InfantJune 15, 1998 - Source: NY Times
CHICAGO, June 14— A judge today denied bond for a couple accused of killing their 16-month-old daughter to silence her cries and then dismembering her body.
The couple, Joan Tribblet, 27, and Everett Johnson, 29, are accused of beating to death or strangling Onowanique Tribblet on a December night when they were frustrated by her crying, the police said.
The authorities said that some of the child's body parts were soaked in battery acid for four to six weeks so they would disintegrate.
A Cook County judge, William Wise, called the incident ''despicable'' and ordered the couple jailed until a preliminary hearing on Monday. They are charged with murder and concealing a homicide, counts that can be punishable by death.
The couple have three other children, who are in the care of an aunt.
CHICAGO, June 14— A judge today denied bond for a couple accused of killing their 16-month-old daughter to silence her cries and then dismembering her body.
The couple, Joan Tribblet, 27, and Everett Johnson, 29, are accused of beating to death or strangling Onowanique Tribblet on a December night when they were frustrated by her crying, the police said.
The authorities said that some of the child's body parts were soaked in battery acid for four to six weeks so they would disintegrate.
A Cook County judge, William Wise, called the incident ''despicable'' and ordered the couple jailed until a preliminary hearing on Monday. They are charged with murder and concealing a homicide, counts that can be punishable by death.
The couple have three other children, who are in the care of an aunt.
Parents Accused of Dismembering 16-Month-OldJune 15, 1998|From Associated Press
CHICAGO — A judge denied bond Sunday for a couple accused of the "despicable" act of killing their 16-month-old daughter to silence her cries anddismembering her body.
Joan Tribblet and Everett Johnson are accused of beating to death or strangling Onowanique Tribblet on a December night when they were frustrated by her crying, police said. The couple then cut her body apart, police said.
"There were portions that had been cooked up that [Johnson] then basically distributed at another location so that dogs and vermin would get to the child," said prosecutor Thomas Epach.
CHICAGO — A judge denied bond Sunday for a couple accused of the "despicable" act of killing their 16-month-old daughter to silence her cries anddismembering her body.
Joan Tribblet and Everett Johnson are accused of beating to death or strangling Onowanique Tribblet on a December night when they were frustrated by her crying, police said. The couple then cut her body apart, police said.
"There were portions that had been cooked up that [Johnson] then basically distributed at another location so that dogs and vermin would get to the child," said prosecutor Thomas Epach.
Parents cut up crying tot and fed her to dogs;
They confess to dissolving part of body in battery acid.
June 16, 1998 - The Free Library
June 16, 1998 - The Free Library
A couple killed their baby daughter and fed parts of her body to dogs because she wouldn't stop crying.
They cut off 16-month-old Onowanique Tribblet's limbs and soaked her torsoin a tub of battery acid for several weeks to dissolve it.
Her hands, feet and forearm were fried in a pan and left to be eaten by dogs and other animals. And her head was put in a blender which had been borrowed from neighbours.
Last night, detectives were still searching for Onowanique's remains. But they fear most of them will never be found.
Details of the killing emerged yesterday as her parents appeared in court in Chicago. Everett Johnson and pregnant Joan Tribblet, who have three other children, confessed to murdering Onowanique in their flat in December.
They said they were frustrated by her crying and because she would not sleep through the night. The couple are charged with murder and concealing a killing, and face the death penalty.
Police say the parents either battered or strangled the toddler and then dismembered her. Johnson, 29, and 27-year-old Tribblet were arrested after Onowanique's concerned maternal grandmother reported her missing.
She told police she didn't believe her daughter's story that the girl was being looked after by another relative.
Police swooped on the couple's home in the tough West Side area of Chicago and took them in for questioning.
After several hours, Johnson and Tribblet broke down and confessed. Detectives also began door-to-door enquiries in another part of the city where the family used to live before starting a search for the child's remains.
Detective Robert Cornfield said: "No one can recall a more horrific or unspeakable case than this. The body was dissolved in a container of battery acid for four to six weeks."
Thomas Epach, prosecuting, told the court: "There were portions that had been cooked up that Johnson then basically distributed at another location so that dogs and vermin would get the child."
Tribblet shifted uncomfortably in the dock and kept her head down and her eyes closed. Johnson stood expressionless during the hearing.
Judge William Wise described the killing as "despicable" and turned down their request for bail. They are now awaiting trial.
Yesterday, stunned neighbours gathered on street corners after hearing of the killing.
One, LeRoy Williams, said: "We all feel sick to our stomachs. That poor baby - I just can't imagine what those parents were thinking.
"You used to see the family around but you don't stop to count how many kids there are."
Leah Stewart, who lived next door to the couple before they recently moved, said Onowanique "wasn't any bigger than a handbag" when she last saw her.
She added: "We saw all the other kids and we didn't see her. They told us she was with her grandparents
The couple's three other children - a nine-month-old girl, a boy of three and a six-year-old girl - are being cared for by an aunt.
One detective said: "This was a deliberate and protracted attempt to destroy every bit of evidence.
"For four to six weeks that poor baby's remains were being dissolved in acid. "Other parts had been chopped up, fried, fed to animals or put in a blender. "This is sick, sick, sick. What happened to this baby is unspeakable."
Meanwhile, jurors in another part of Chicago were considering the death penalty for a man who killed his ex- girlfriend and cut her unborn child out of her womb, before murdering her two other children.
Lavern Ward, 26, was found guilty of murdering Debra Evans, 28, and her 10- year-old daughter, Samantha Her seven-year-old son, Joshua, was abducted and later found stabbed to death.
The baby who was cut from the uterus miraculously survived the killing spree in November 1995 and is now being cared for by relatives.
At the time, detectives said it was the most horrific case they had worked on.
They cut off 16-month-old Onowanique Tribblet's limbs and soaked her torsoin a tub of battery acid for several weeks to dissolve it.
Her hands, feet and forearm were fried in a pan and left to be eaten by dogs and other animals. And her head was put in a blender which had been borrowed from neighbours.
Last night, detectives were still searching for Onowanique's remains. But they fear most of them will never be found.
Details of the killing emerged yesterday as her parents appeared in court in Chicago. Everett Johnson and pregnant Joan Tribblet, who have three other children, confessed to murdering Onowanique in their flat in December.
They said they were frustrated by her crying and because she would not sleep through the night. The couple are charged with murder and concealing a killing, and face the death penalty.
Police say the parents either battered or strangled the toddler and then dismembered her. Johnson, 29, and 27-year-old Tribblet were arrested after Onowanique's concerned maternal grandmother reported her missing.
She told police she didn't believe her daughter's story that the girl was being looked after by another relative.
Police swooped on the couple's home in the tough West Side area of Chicago and took them in for questioning.
After several hours, Johnson and Tribblet broke down and confessed. Detectives also began door-to-door enquiries in another part of the city where the family used to live before starting a search for the child's remains.
Detective Robert Cornfield said: "No one can recall a more horrific or unspeakable case than this. The body was dissolved in a container of battery acid for four to six weeks."
Thomas Epach, prosecuting, told the court: "There were portions that had been cooked up that Johnson then basically distributed at another location so that dogs and vermin would get the child."
Tribblet shifted uncomfortably in the dock and kept her head down and her eyes closed. Johnson stood expressionless during the hearing.
Judge William Wise described the killing as "despicable" and turned down their request for bail. They are now awaiting trial.
Yesterday, stunned neighbours gathered on street corners after hearing of the killing.
One, LeRoy Williams, said: "We all feel sick to our stomachs. That poor baby - I just can't imagine what those parents were thinking.
"You used to see the family around but you don't stop to count how many kids there are."
Leah Stewart, who lived next door to the couple before they recently moved, said Onowanique "wasn't any bigger than a handbag" when she last saw her.
She added: "We saw all the other kids and we didn't see her. They told us she was with her grandparents
The couple's three other children - a nine-month-old girl, a boy of three and a six-year-old girl - are being cared for by an aunt.
One detective said: "This was a deliberate and protracted attempt to destroy every bit of evidence.
"For four to six weeks that poor baby's remains were being dissolved in acid. "Other parts had been chopped up, fried, fed to animals or put in a blender. "This is sick, sick, sick. What happened to this baby is unspeakable."
Meanwhile, jurors in another part of Chicago were considering the death penalty for a man who killed his ex- girlfriend and cut her unborn child out of her womb, before murdering her two other children.
Lavern Ward, 26, was found guilty of murdering Debra Evans, 28, and her 10- year-old daughter, Samantha Her seven-year-old son, Joshua, was abducted and later found stabbed to death.
The baby who was cut from the uterus miraculously survived the killing spree in November 1995 and is now being cared for by relatives.
At the time, detectives said it was the most horrific case they had worked on.
Trial begins with grisly testimony
Witnesses dredge up awful details of baby's demise
August 28, 2002 - By Alice Hohl/Staff writer/Southtown Legal
The gruesome details of a 1997 child murder that turned stomachs were spelled out for a judge Tuesday as the trial of the baby's father began.
Everett Johnson, 33, is charged with killing his 15-month-old daughter, Oncwanique Tribblet, then cutting up the body and making several revolting attempts to hide it, including deep frying some parts of the baby.
The baby's mother, Joan Tribblet, 31, is also charged with the murder but has struck a deal to testify against Johnson in exchange for a reduced sentence. The plea agreement is not scheduled to take place until after she testifies.
A Chicago police investigator testified Tribblet and Johnson killed their daughter in December 1997, but hid her death for six months, saying Oncwanique was living with Johnson's relatives in Mississippi.
Tribblet's family said they became suspicious of the story after another of the couple's children said Oncwanique had been given away.
"She started crying," testified Monica Tribblet, Joan's sister. "She said her mother gave her little sister away."
Fredie Tribblet, Oncwanique's grandmother, called the police to report the baby missing in June 1998, when Joan Tribblet defied several requests to bring the baby to Fredie Tribblet's house.
Fredie Tribblet said Joan and the other three children had visited several times without Oncwanique, and she had not seen the baby since Joan and the four children moved out of her South Side home in November 1997 to live in a West Side apartment.
Assistant State's Attorney Frank Merek said while Johnson and Tribblet were misleading their relatives about the baby's location, they were engaged in a horrifying series of attempts to get rid of the body.
Merek said Oncwanique's parents beat her Dec. 19, 1997, because she wouldn't sleep through the night.
"Her face was pushed into the bed to quiet her cries," Merek said.
As she struggled to breathe, Tribblet became scared of the consequences of calling for medical help, so the couple left her to die, Merek said.
Merek said Tribblet was afraid her other children would be taken away if police found out what happened to Oncwanique.
"They formed a plan to dispose of the body," Merek said.
Merek said Johnson and Tribblet waited for the other children to leave the house the next morning and put Oncwanique's body in the bathtub.
Johnson used a sharp knife from his job at a Willowbrook plastics company to carefully remove the baby's spine, Merek said.
"He cut off the hands and feet and gave them to Joan, who put them in hot grease in a skillet and began to fry them," Merek said.
But the smoke and the smell quickly became overwhelming, Merek told the judge, and the couple realized they wouldn't be able to dispose of Oncwanique's entire body by frying.
Merek said Johnson tossed Oncwanique's spine into the woods on his way to work and bought a large quantity of battery acid and a pot.
The fried hands and feet were fed to animals, Merek said, and the rest of Oncwanique was placed in the pot with the battery acid.
"The remnants of the body were left in this vat for a period of several weeks," Merek said, until most dissolved in the acid.
Of the pieces that were left, the hard pieces and bones were scattered outside in a rainstorm and the softer parts were saved for another attempt at disposal, Merek said.
Johnson and Tribblet borrowed a blender from a neighbor, he said.
"The blender was used to liquefy some of the remains which were not dissolved," Merek said.
In June 1998, Johnson and Tribblet were arrested at their new apartment at 1619 W. 56th St. in Chicago's West Englewood community.
Johnson led police on a four-hour search for the place he told them he buried her body unscathed, a police officer testified.
Later, Johnson said he left the body in a vat of acid at LeClaire Courts public housing complex near Midway airport.
Finally Johnson confessed to the grisly circumstances, police said.
Police officers testified none of the body parts was ever recovered.
PARENTS COOK THEIR BABY GIRL & FEED HER TO THE DOGS.September 11, 2002 - The Free Library
An evil mother and father killed and cooked their baby before feeding it to their dogs, a court heard yesterday.
The mother, Joan Tribblet has already been jailed for 60 years at a separate trial.
The child's father, Everette Johnson, 34, was spared the death penalty by Judge Lon William Schultz, but faces 100 years in jail after being convicted of murder and unlawfully disposing of the body.
The court was told how Oncwanique Tribblet, aged 15 months, met a gruesome death at the hands of the couple on December 19, 1997. Prosecutors told the court: "She was choked and beaten to death with a ruler.
"Johnson cut the girl's body up into pieces and then told the mother to cook it. "The smoke alerted neighbours who thought there was a fire and called the fire department.
"By the time they arrived the body had been fed to the dogs. The rest was dumped in a pot of acid."
Tribblet, 33, had already admitted that she lifted the girl by her neck and strangled her and said Johnson joined in and beat the girl with a ruler. The couple kept the disappearance of the baby from their family and friends for six months.
At a police interview Joan Tribblet confessed to her part in the slaying and implicated Johnson.
Sentence will be passed later.
An evil mother and father killed and cooked their baby before feeding it to their dogs, a court heard yesterday.
The mother, Joan Tribblet has already been jailed for 60 years at a separate trial.
The child's father, Everette Johnson, 34, was spared the death penalty by Judge Lon William Schultz, but faces 100 years in jail after being convicted of murder and unlawfully disposing of the body.
The court was told how Oncwanique Tribblet, aged 15 months, met a gruesome death at the hands of the couple on December 19, 1997. Prosecutors told the court: "She was choked and beaten to death with a ruler.
"Johnson cut the girl's body up into pieces and then told the mother to cook it. "The smoke alerted neighbours who thought there was a fire and called the fire department.
"By the time they arrived the body had been fed to the dogs. The rest was dumped in a pot of acid."
Tribblet, 33, had already admitted that she lifted the girl by her neck and strangled her and said Johnson joined in and beat the girl with a ruler. The couple kept the disappearance of the baby from their family and friends for six months.
At a police interview Joan Tribblet confessed to her part in the slaying and implicated Johnson.
Sentence will be passed later.
Man guilty of killing, dismembering girl September 7, 2002
BY CARLOS SADOVI CRIMINAL COURTS REPORTER
Everette Johnson was convicted Friday of killing his 15-month-old daughter, then dismembering the body and feeding it to dogs.
Cook County Judge Lon William Shultz spared Johnson the death penalty despite the gruesome way Johnson and the girl's mother, Joan Tribblet, disposed of the frail, 18-pound body of Oncwanique Tribblet on Dec. 19, 1997.
Shultz said the actions of both parents showed "combined malignancies of their hearts.''
"Mr. Johnson and Ms. Tribblet opened a window for everyone to see into the deepest and darkest depravity of their flawed human souls,'' Shultz said.
The judge admitted the way the toddler's murder was hidden from police and even family for more than six months was heinous. But he said the way the girl was killed--choked and beaten with a ruler by both parents--was not extreme enough to warrant the death penalty.
Prosecutors Frank Marek and Veryl Gambino said Johnson could receive up to 100 years in prison for the killing and five years in prison for concealing the murder. They called the way the toddler's body was disposed of the worst case of concealment they had seen.
Johnson's lawyers blamed the killing on the mother. Tribblet was sentenced to 60 years in prison Aug. 30 after testifying against Johnson and pinning the girl's death on him.
She claimed the death was accidental and said the couple had been sleeping when Oncwanique woke up at 4 a.m. and roused her and later Johnson. While she admits grabbing the girl in a stranglehold by the neck, she said Johnson hit the girl with a ruler several times while holding her face down on the
bed. The girl finally went limp, she said.
Johnson cut up the girl's body and told Tribblet to cook it. But they stopped because there was so much smoke that a neighbor summoned a Chicago Fire Department truck. Some of the remains were then fed to dogs, and the rest were dumped into a pot of acid.
BY CARLOS SADOVI CRIMINAL COURTS REPORTER
Everette Johnson was convicted Friday of killing his 15-month-old daughter, then dismembering the body and feeding it to dogs.
Cook County Judge Lon William Shultz spared Johnson the death penalty despite the gruesome way Johnson and the girl's mother, Joan Tribblet, disposed of the frail, 18-pound body of Oncwanique Tribblet on Dec. 19, 1997.
Shultz said the actions of both parents showed "combined malignancies of their hearts.''
"Mr. Johnson and Ms. Tribblet opened a window for everyone to see into the deepest and darkest depravity of their flawed human souls,'' Shultz said.
The judge admitted the way the toddler's murder was hidden from police and even family for more than six months was heinous. But he said the way the girl was killed--choked and beaten with a ruler by both parents--was not extreme enough to warrant the death penalty.
Prosecutors Frank Marek and Veryl Gambino said Johnson could receive up to 100 years in prison for the killing and five years in prison for concealing the murder. They called the way the toddler's body was disposed of the worst case of concealment they had seen.
Johnson's lawyers blamed the killing on the mother. Tribblet was sentenced to 60 years in prison Aug. 30 after testifying against Johnson and pinning the girl's death on him.
She claimed the death was accidental and said the couple had been sleeping when Oncwanique woke up at 4 a.m. and roused her and later Johnson. While she admits grabbing the girl in a stranglehold by the neck, she said Johnson hit the girl with a ruler several times while holding her face down on the
bed. The girl finally went limp, she said.
Johnson cut up the girl's body and told Tribblet to cook it. But they stopped because there was so much smoke that a neighbor summoned a Chicago Fire Department truck. Some of the remains were then fed to dogs, and the rest were dumped into a pot of acid.
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