Rebecca Ruud, of Ozark County, has been sentenced for abandoning her daughters corpse. The county had already convicted her of murder in the death of her teen daughter, Savannah Leckie, sentencing her to 4 years.
Ruud’s defense argued that Leckie committed suicide, then merely panicked and burned the body. Ultimately the judge ruled that Ruud killed her daughter, burned the body, and abandoned the corpse. Fellow inmates to Ruud testified that she confessed to the crime in jail.