Tokars was convicted of arranging the 1992 murder of his wife, Sara, but was sentenced to life in prison. The man behind one of Cobb County's most memorable murders, former east Cobb resident and Atlanta attorney Fred Tokars, has died in federal prison, his lawyer confirmed to the MDJ.
Nussbaum has been under psychiatric care since November 1987. Nussbaum told London that, before meeting Steinberg, she had sought psychological help because "I wasn't a happy person" and that she snorted cocaine.
Joel Steinberg (born May 25, 1941) is a disbarred New York City criminal defense attorney who attracted international media attention when he was accused of rape and murder and was convicted of manslaughter, in the November 1, 1987, beating and subsequent death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth ("Lisa"), whom he and ...
Unable to convict Steinberg on the more serious charge of second-degree murder, the jury convicted him of the second most serious charge, first-degree manslaughter. The judge then sentenced him to the maximum penalty then available for that charge — 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison.
They quickly decided she was the victim of extensive abuse, and both Steinberg and Nussbaum were arrested on attempted murder charges. The tragic girl was declared brain-dead Nov. 4 and removed from a ventilator at 8:40 a.m. Nov.
Hedda Nussbaum (born August 8, 1942) is an American woman who was a caregiver of a six-year-old girl who died of physical abuse in 1987.
In 2004, Joel Steinberg was released from prison after serving two-thirds of his 25-year sentence. Remarkably, he showed little remorse.
Travis Christian Smigiel, the 17-month-old boy formerly known as Mitchell Steinberg, was placed in the permanent custody of his mother yesterday by a judge in Manhattan. ''Travis, we can only wish you a good life,'' Judge Jeffry H.