The 14-Year-Old Sentenced To 297 Years… Then Released

True Crime with Elli Mac

04/06/26

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40m

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On April 22, 1985, in East Anchorage, Alaska, three members of the same family were murdered inside their own home.

It was a controlled, deliberate and brutal attack, carried out in a place where they should have been safest.

Weeks later, those responsible were caught — a fourteen-year-old girl and her nineteen-year-old boyfriend.

The case shocked the community, not just for the brutality of the crime, but for the age of those responsible.

At just fourteen years old, she was sentenced to two hundred and ninety-seven years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever given to a juvenile in Alaska.

But how was it that decades later, in 2025, she would walk out of prison a free woman?

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The Masterton Family Massacre

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On the night of 26 June 1992, in the quiet town of Masterton, New Zealand, a brutal attack unfolded inside a family home.

Inside were children, a teenager, a young couple, and a woman just weeks away from giving birth.

By the time the night was over, all of them were gone.

The man responsible was not a stranger. He was someone they knew. Someone who had lived in that house, who had been part of that family, and who, just days earlier, had been asked to leave.

What followed was not a moment of chaos, but a sustained and deliberate attack that would become one of the most devastating family killings in New Zealand’s history.

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