Day of reckoning comes for Martinson

Abuse acknowledged, but judge insists teen did not have to resort to murder

Two indisputable truths were repeatedly presented to Oneida County Circuit Judge Michael Bloom during a nearly 10-hour sentencing hearing Friday for 18-year-old Ashlee Martinson on two counts of second-degree intentional homicide.The first truth was that sometime during the afternoon of March 7, 2015, Martinson's mother Jennifer Ayers and her stepfather Thomas Ayers died at her hands in their town of Piehl home just one day after she turned 17. (subscriber access)

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• By Jamie [email protected]
• June 14, 2016