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Jordan Collins

16yo tells mother foolproof plan to escape justice for murdering a 2yo – problem was, the judge had been listening the whole time

In 2014, teenager Dylan Schumaker was standing trial for the murder of a two-year-old boy he had been babysitting. Facing the judge, the then 17-year-old cried his eyes out as he expressed how sorry he was, and how he didn’t mean to kill the child, but the judge knew much more than Schumaker then he was letting on and he wasn’t about to let this murderer off the hook.

The judge was pretty certain that those tears falling from Schumaker’s eyes were crocodile tears. He wasn’t sorry he’d killed toddler Austin Smith, he was sorry that he was about to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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