Former CO Gets 150 Years For Murders Of Wife & Daughter, 14
‘Terrorized Into Silence’ — Former Corrections Officer Gets 150 Years For Killing Wife & Daughter, 14, Who Reported Sexual Abuse To Police
An Alaska man was sentenced to 150 years for murdering his wife and their daughter after the young girl reported sexual abuse to police on March 30, 2022. However, according to the Anchorage Police Department, the 14-year-old would not disclose the perpetrator. The primary suspect was her father, Jalonni Blackshear.
During a welfare check, Raechyl Blackshear, 35, and her daughter, identified by authorities only as J.B. at the time, were discovered fatally shot in an Anchorage residence on April 15, 2022, according to statements from the Anchorage Police Department.
J.B. was not publicly named in the statement, but was later identified by local news outlet KTUU as Jayla Blackshear, the teenage daughter of the married couple.
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Last week, Jalonni, a former corrections officer, received the harsh sentence following an investigation, which revealed that after Jayla’s statement to police, he allegedly convinced Raechyl to have their daughter recant the allegation.
On April 3, 2022, a few days after Jayla made the complaint, Raechyl took her daughter to the police in an attempt to have her withdraw the statement. According to authorities, “That was the last day anyone from law enforcement saw Raechyl or J.B. Raechyl never returned to work, and J.B. never returned to school.”
Anchorage police say that in the following days, despite their absences, they believed the mother and daughter were with Jalonni, who had been tracked to Virginia and Maryland.
Raechyl and Jayla appeared to exchange text messages and remained active on social media during this time, Anchorage police said. However, investigators later learned that Jalonni killed the two on April 4, 2022, and left the area by April 6.
He took both of their phones and gained access to their iCloud accounts, then proceeded to text his other children, pretending to be their mother, writing, “mommy missed them,” even wishing one of them a happy birthday, the Department of Law said in its statement. Through their phones, Jalonni was tracked through various states on the East Coast and was eventually arrested in Staten Island, NY, on April 20, 2022.
