A young mother has been sentenced to 130 years in prison after a series of internet searches showed she killed her two young daughters years apart.
Stephany Elizabeth Bilecki, formerly LaFountain, was sentenced Monday and will spend the rest of her life in an Alaska prison.
The 29-year-old committed the murders in 2015 and 2017 and spent the last six years in prison.
The first occurred on September 15, 2015, when four-month-old Chyanne died of asphyxiation. Initially, the girl’s death was not considered conclusive. This changed after his sister’s death on November 24, more than two years later.
Jasmine, then just 13 months old, died from lack of oxygen to the brain. An investigation followed, which concluded the incident was a possible murder.
When police launched the investigation, forensic teams found a series of surprising searches saved on the woman’s smartphone.
Written about an hour before she called 911 to claim the baby had stopped breathing, they included “Ways to Kill Humans Without Evidence,” “Drowning and Forensics,” and “How to: Commit the Perfect Murder.”
Other incriminating queries included “Ways to Choke,” “Best Ways to Choke,” “16 Steps to Kill Someone and Not Get Caught,” “Choking and Suffocation,” and “Can Drowning Be Shown on an Autopsy Report.” The authorities confirmed the sentence in a statement.
Stephany Elizabeth Bilecki, formerly LaFountain, received a harsh sentence Monday and will now spend the rest of her life in an Alaska prison. The 29-year-old committed the murders in 2015 and 2017 and spent the last six years in prison.
The first occurred on September 15, 2015 and saw four-month-old Chyanne (right) suffocate to death. Initially, the girl’s death was not considered conclusive. This changed after the death of her sister two years later: 13-month-old Jasmine (left) died from lack of oxygen to the brain.
“Stephany Elizabeth Bilecki was sentenced to a compound sentence of 130 years with 85 years suspended for the murders of her young children in 2015 and 2017,” the statement from the State of Alaska Department of Justice read.
In recounting her crimes, the bulletin described how in 2015, Bilecki called her boyfriend, and then her mother, from her home in Fairbanks to tell them that Chyanne was dead.
“Ten minutes later, just before his mother arrived, he finally called 911,” authorities added.
“Chyanne was otherwise healthy and the death was originally assumed to be SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome),” officials wrote. “A subsequent investigation revealed minor injuries consistent with asphyxiation.”
The statement then fast-forwarded two years to 2017, when Bilecki attempted to call her husband, who had been deployed overseas, law enforcement officials said.
After that, she called her in-laws, this time reporting that Jasmine was no longer breathing.
In that case, Bilecki called 911 “just before her in-laws arrived at the house,” authorities said.
A subsequent search of his phone uncovered Internet searches that the statement said were riddled with spelling errors.
An investigation followed, describing the incident as a possible murder. When police launched the investigation, forensic teams found a series of surprising searches saved on the woman’s smartphone. Here you see Jasmine, who would be 8 years old.
Written about an hour before he called 911 to claim Jasmine had stopped breathing, they included “Ways to Kill Humans Without Evidence,” “Drowning and Forensics,” and “How to: Commit the Perfect Murder.” Pictured is Jasmine’s sister Chyanne, who died two years earlier.
Visits to the website an hour before I called 911 for Chyanne also involved ‘ways to suffocate’ (sic), ‘ways to kill a human being without evidence’, ‘drugs that can kill people without meaning’ (sic) , ‘they can drown’. shows in an autopsy report'(sic), ’16 steps to kill someone and not get caught’
‘Visits to websites an hour before she called 911 involved “ways to suffocate” (sic), “ways to kill a human being without evidence”, “drugs that can kill people without meaning” (sic) , “drowning can be shown in an autopsy report” (sic), “16 steps to killing someone and not getting caught,” officials wrote.
Additionally, an autopsy indicated the cause of death was lack of oxygen, authorities said, after looking at other searches and similar sites.
Following “a lengthy investigation,” Bilecki, a deli worker at Fred Meyer’s at the time, according to her LinkedIn, was charged on Aug. 29, 2018, with both murders.
However, this year he only pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder for each child, leaving the girls’ families waiting for justice for more than six years.
the girls’ grandmother wrote on facebook on Sunday: ‘The day has finally come.’ Tomorrow she will be sentenced!!’
Meanwhile, Superior Court Judge Patrica Haines presided over the sentencing process.
The girls would be eight and nine years old respectively if they had lived to this day.