The father killed his child after the boy's mother Krystal Daniels planned on dumping Joseph Ray for another man, prosecutor Josh Turnbow told jurors in Dickson County, Tennessee on Friday. Krystal was getting $1,200 a month for "Baby Joe" and needed that money to leave the relationship, it was argued. In other words, a child died because of his father's spite, according to the state's version of events. The post Joseph Ray Daniels Found Guilty.
Joseph Daniels’ attorneys argued that the prosecutors didn’t prove Daniels murdered his son Joe Clyde while the state asked the jurors to “not reward him for concealing (Joe’s) body” in the eighth and final day of Daniels trial.
The trial for Daniels, a Dickson County father who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2018 disappearance of Joe, finished Friday in Dickson County Circuit Court with the following closing arguments:
‘Planted the seed’
Assistant District Attorney Josh Turnbow told the jury that Joe was a “developmentally delayed” child who was “making good progress.”
“But then all that came to an end on a dark, cold stormy night,” Turnbow said.