GUILTY ID - Robert Manwill, 8, Boise, 24 July 2009 - #6

[Crosby87]

If the DNA they have doesn't belong to Daniel Ehrlick, it could exonerate him. Ehrlick, who is currently serving a life prison sentence, has appealed his case to the Idaho Supreme Court but has not filed for post-conviction relief in Ada County.

The Crown did not present Ehrlick's DNA to the jurors during his trial to help prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he killed Robert and dumped his body in a canal. Much of the evidence police developed against Ehrlick was through statements Jenkins made to police and others, and prosecutors worked to make sure they could call her to testify against Ehrlick but they never did.

Ehrlick has consistently denied killing the boy and even testified on his own behalf at the end of the trial but jurors weren’t convinced and it took them less than three hours to convict him.

4th District Judge Darla Williamson, who retired shortly after sentencing Jenkins’ last September, still serves as a senior judge in Ada County and she will handle Jenkins' post-conviction case.

A status conference is set for Oct. 9.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/...-jenkins-wants-relief-from.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Renee110]

Robert Manwill's Mom Asks for Post Conviction Relief
http://youtu.be/xqops3QIiAc

 

[Renee110]

Mom ends move for shorter sentence in son's beating death

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March 19, 2013 11:16 am(0) Comments
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A mother who pleaded guilty to aiding the beating death of her 8-year-old son has withdrawn a request to have her sentence reduced.

The Idaho Statesman reported Tuesday that Melissa Jenkins filed a motion in 4th District Court last week to end the effort.

Jenkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole for aiding and abetting the 2009 death of her son Robert Manwill.

Her former boyfriend, Daniel Ehrlick, was sentenced to life for beating the child to death and trying to cover up the murder by dumping the boy's body in a Boise canal.

After the 2011 sentencing, 4th District Judge Darla Williamson said she would have liked to send the mother to prison for a longer term but agreed to a plea deal to spare the family and friends of Robert Manwill a difficult trial filled with graphic testimony.

The plea deal required Jenkins to agree that she wouldn't file appeals in the case. But last August, she changed her mind and filed a petition for post-conviction relief, saying her former defense attorneys didn't do a good enough job representing her. In that petition, she asked to have her sentence reduced.

Current defense attorney Paul Taber said Jenkins changed her mind again for personal reasons.

"She thought about the case and decided she just didn't want to go through with it," Taber said. "She decided it just wasn't in her best interests."

The decision means Jenkins will serve her entire prison term and can't make the same request again.

The disappearance of Robert Manwill in 2009 sparked a search that ended about two weeks later when his battered body was found in an irrigation canal. His pockets were filled with rocks.

Authorities said Ehrlick beat and tortured Robert before killing him and throwing his body in the canal.

Jenkins acknowledged that she helped hide her beaten and bruised son from family members and from Idaho Department of Health and Welfare workers who stopped by the home to check on the children living there.

Ehrlick has consistently denied killing the boy and appealed his case to the Idaho Supreme Court.

http://magicvalley.com/news/local/c...cle_9a9e23bc-90b8-11e2-8945-001a4bcf887a.html
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/03/19/2497647/melissa-jenkins-drops-request.html

 

[AmandaReckonwith]

New Plymouth ID is still remembering Robert with an art auction and 5K every spring.

If he was alive, he would be finishing 7th grade.

This article is long, but worth the read. The last part is heart-wrenching.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/04/28/3157503/new-plymouth-remembers-robert.html?sp=/99/101/


The Robert Manwill Case Archive is updated as often as there is news.
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[wendybtn]

Killed by his mom and her boyfriend. The boyfriend got life w/o parole, mom got 25 years.

 

[Janedoe66]

"Killed by his mom and her boyfriend. The boyfriend got life w/o parole, mom got 25 years." So sad that this was the outcome.

 

[bflocket]

Here are some more stories about case.

Melissa Jenkins, Daniel Ehrlick plead not guilty to murder of Robert Manwill (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID 9/3/2009)

Melissa Jenkins and Daniel Ehrlick pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of first-degree murder in connection with the beating death of Jenkins' 8-year-old son Robert Manwill in July.

The two, both charged with first degree murder, stood silent during their entry of plea hearing Thursday in front of 4th District Judge Darla Williamson so not guilty pleas were entered for them.

Ehrlick is accused of beating the boy to death, and Jenkins is accused of covering up the crime and lying to police about what happened.

Melissa Jenkins pleads guilty to aiding and abetting the murder of her son, Robert Manwill (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID 1/31/2011)

Melissa Scott Jenkins has agreed to plead guilty to aiding and abetting the second-degree murder of her son, Robert Manwill, in exchange for a recommended sentence of 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole, Ada County Prosecutor Greg Bower said in a release Monday morning.

Jenkins, 31, and her then-boyfriend Daniel Ehrlick were arrested after days of community-wide searches for the 8-year-old boy, whom they reported missing in July 2009. The boy was found dead in a local canal after more than 2,000 people had turned out to look for him over several days.

Jenkins was charged with first degree murder but that charged was dropped Monday when she agreed to plead guilty to aiding and abetting a second degree murder as part of a plea deal with Ada County prosecutors.

Child killer gets life (Idaho Press-Tribune, Nampa, ID 9/3/2011)

BOISE — Daniel Ehrlick was sentenced Friday to life in prison for torturing his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, Robert Manwill, then killing him and trying to cover up the murder by stuffing rocks in the boy’s pockets and dumping the body in a canal.

“Robert died all alone in substantial pain with no one there to care for him and love him,” Williamson said.

Robert, who read Harry Potter books and was saving his money for violin lessons, was forced to sleep in a baby crib while visiting his mother and her boyfriend the summer he died, according to authorities. The boy lost weight because Ehrlick forced him to eat the meal he hated most — oatmeal and raisins — causing him to vomit, prosecutors said.

The boy, who lived primarily with his father in New Plymouth, was visiting Jenkins and Ehrlick in Boise when he disappeared. Prosecutors claim Ehrlick, who is more than 6-feet tall and weighed 277 pounds at the time, tortured the 50-pound boy in a pattern of escalating violence that ended with fatal injuries to his head and chest.

Authorities say Ehrlick killed Robert, then stuffed rocks in the boy’s pants pockets and dumped his body in an irrigation canal. The body was found about a week after Robert’s disappearance set off a massive, high-profile search across Boise.

It also appears that Ehrlick is not only a bad guy, he's bad luck...
Many questions remain in Boise woman's death (Idaho Statesman, Boise, ID 4/23/2014)

Alexis R. Palmer went through periods of homelessness but in recent years lived in a trailer off Willow Lane in West Boise, a close friend said Tuesday.

Palmer's body was found in that canal Thursday a few blocks downstream from her home, behind the Collister Community Church on State Street. A canal company employee discovered the body when clearing grates.

The Ada County Coroner's Office is still trying to determine how the 40-year-old died, Coroner Erwin Sonnenberg said Tuesday. Investigators originally suspected drowning, but they now believe she died from some other cause.

The body had no obvious signs of trauma.

"She would always give me a hug when I needed it."

That was the sort of kindness that Palmer hadn't always received from others. In 2011, she testified in court that her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Ehrlick - then on trial for murder in the death of 8-year-old Robert Manwill - had physically and mentally abused her so severely that she tried to kill herself to get away from him. Ehrlick was convicted of killing Manwill and dumping the boy's body in the New York Canal. He was sentenced to life in prison.

 

[AmandaReckonwith]

Murder conviction upheld.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/04/28/3775598_murder-conviction-upheld-in-death.html?rh=1

 

[AmandaReckonwith]

The New Plymouth ID area is still going strong with the scholarship and activities
to fund it in honor of Robert.

Meanwhile, the murderer and enabler sit in prison. She looks pleased.

 

[ReadySet]

I wasn't reading at Websleuths in 2009, but ran across this thread and thought some would be interested in this update about Robert's classmates, in 2019.


https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/article228787214.html

 

[wendybtn]

Melissa Jenkins sentence satisfaction date is in 2034 according to the Idaho DOC site. Daniel Ehrlick is currently serving his life sentence at a prison in Arizona.