Phillup Partin, the drifter who killed 16-year-old Joshan Ashbrook in 2002, will die for his crime. ...more

December 3, 2008

Convicted killer Phillup Partin was sentenced to death this afternoonin the 2002 slaying of 16-year-old Joshan Ashbrook. ...more

December 1, 2008

Murder defendant Christopher Wright took the witness stand Wednesday, asking a jury to believe his account of John Benjamin's slaying over those of prosecution witnesses. ...more

December 14, 2007

Robert Benjamin tried to hold back his tears. He didn't, however, hold back on Daniel Lee Parbel. ...more

November 17, 2007

Tara Ramsdell waited five years for the trial of Phillup Alan Partin, the man investigators say killed her daughter. ...more

October 10, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY – A judge granted a mistrial today in the case of Phillup Alan Partin because of the last-minute discovery of an FDLE report last week. Partin, 42, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 2002 death of 16-year-old Joshan Ashbrook. He faces the death penalty if found guilty as charged. Ashbrook's body was found in the woods off Shady Hills Road on Aug. 1, 2002. ...more

October 9, 2007

The murder trial of Phillup Alan Partin stands on the precipice of mistrial after his attorneys learned for the first time Friday that DNA tests were conducted on a controversial blood stain. ...more

October 6, 2007

Attorneys weeded through more than 50 potential jurors Monday before settling on 12 jurors and one alternate to weigh the evidence in Phillup Alan Partin's murder trial. ...more

October 2, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY - Attorneys in the first-degree murder trial of Phillup Partin have begun questioning the first panel of 40 prospective jurors. ...more

October 1, 2007