Mother of slain teen won't rest on her conviction that the killer's punishment didn't fit the crime

STRASBURG -- The bullet that ripped through her son's skull also broke Janeen Johannsen's heart and spirit. "The trick is I don't sleep; I'm driven out of my bed," Johannsen says of how she's managed to get up each day since Jan. 6 -- the day Jody Lynn Bradley, of 189 Wakemans Grove Road, Edinburg, shot and killed her son, 16-year-old Brendon Manning Barker.

Bradley given sentence in teen's killing

WOODSTOCK -- Shenandoah County Circuit Judge Dennis L. Hupp formally sentenced Jody Lynn Bradley on Wednesday to 12 years in prison for the gunshot murder of Brendon Manning Barker.

Bradley likely to appeal conviction

WOODSTOCK -- Jody Lynn Bradley will likely appeal his second-degree murder conviction, his defense attorney, Gene Hart, said late last week.

Hold-out juror defends stance

WOODSTOCK -- The Shenandoah County Circuit Court juror who held out last week for a lighter sentence for murderer Jody Lynn Bradley said Wednesday that no jurors were coerced into recommending his fate.

Murderer's children, ex-wife outraged over light sentence

STRASBURG -- Not only is Jody Lynn Bradley a murderer, he's also a hypocrite. Those are the charges his daughter and his ex-wife leveled against Bradley, convicted last week by a Shenandoah County Circuit Court jury of second-degree murder. They are outraged the jury recommended he only serve nine years in prison for shooting to death Brendon Manning Barker, 16, plus three years on a gun charge.

Some jurors feel sentence too light

WOODSTOCK -- Two members of the Shenandoah County Circuit Court jury that recommended on Thursday that Jody Lynn Bradley serve nine years in prison for murdering a 16-year-old boy said Friday that his sentence was too light. One of the jurors claimed another "blackmailed" the rest of the panel into a decision they didn't want to make.

Bob Wooten: Murder is not a fair response to youth

Being young and foolish is far too often a fatal combination.

Jody Lynn Bradley found guilty in shooting death of 16-year-old

WOODSTOCK -- A Shenandoah County Circuit Court jury recommended Thursday night that Jody Lynn Bradley serve nine years in prison for murdering his daughter's boyfriend.

Jury deliberations will resume today

WOODSTOCK -- Jurors will resume deliberating the fate of confessed killer Jody Lynn Bradley when they return to Shenandoah County Circuit Court this morning.

Daughter says she didn't believe father would carry out his threats

WOODSTOCK -- Murder suspect Jody Lynn Bradley had threatened to shoot 16-year-old Brendon Manning Barker many times before he actually pulled the trigger, the defendant's daughter testified Tuesday, the first day of his trial in Shenandoah County Circuit Court.