Taylor Marks
(MySpace.com)
Taylor Marks mug shot.
Taylor Marks, 20, charged with the aggravated
murder of her mother, Kristie Marks,
during her video arraignment at the Summit County Courthouse.
(Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)
Family friend Aline McMahon (rear) delivers a victim impact
statement to defendant Taylor Marks
(foreground), after Marks plead
guilty in the murder for hire killing of her mother Kristie Marks
in
Summit County Common Pleas Court.
(Mike Cardew/Akron
Beacon Journal)
Gail McEnteer, best
friend and business partner of murder victim Kristie Marks,
confronts Taylor
Marks during her impact statement. Marks plead guilty in the murder
for hire killing of her
mother Kristie Marks in Summit County Common Pleas Court.
(Mike Cardew/Akron
Beacon Journal)
Taylor Marks wipes away
her tears after pleading guilty in the murder for hire killing of
her mother
Kristie Marks as she stands next to attorney Lawrence
Whitney in Summit County Common Pleas
Court. Marks
plead guilty under a plea agreement that removed the death penalty
and gave
her a sentence of life without parole.
(Mike Cardew/Akron
Beacon Journal)
Defense attorney Joe
Gorman (left) stands next to defendant Taylor Marks, and attorney
Lawrence
Whitney while Summit County Common Pleas Judge Tom Parker
explains the rights Marks is giving
up by pleading guilty in the
murder for hire killing of her mother Kristie Marks on Wednesday in
Akron. Marks plead guilty under a plea agreement that removed the
death penalty and gave her
a sentence of life without parole.
(Mike
Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)
Taylor Marks
(Ohio Department of Corrections)
Taylor's boyfriend Brian Smith helped her plot the hit for weeks.
Summit County Sheriff
deputy Chuck Bowen (left) leads Brian Scott Smith, the final
defendant
in the murder-for-hire case involving the 2009 slaying of Kristie
Marks, from the court room
after being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of
parole by Summit County
Common Pleas Judge Tom Parker on April 4, 2011.
(Paul Tople/Akron Beacon Journal)
Troy A. Purdie II: Accused of stabbing Kristie Marks for a $5,000 payday.
Troy A. Purdie II, 19, pleads guilty to the murder
of Kristie Marks before Judge Tom Parker
in the Summit County Courthouse Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Purdie
agreed to a plea deal
of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
(Karen Schiely/Akron Beacon Journal)
The victim
Kristie E. Marks, 58.
