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 sentenced to 12 years in teen's slaying

WOODSTOCK -- Convicted killer Jody Lynn Bradley was sentenced in Shenandoah County Circuit Court this morning to 12 years in prison for the murder of 16-year-old 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.