Tag: John Jonchuck

Dad who allegedly threw daughter off 430-foot bridge claims insanity at death penalty murder trial

Murder

A Florida father accused of killing his 5-year-old daughter in 2015 by hurling her off a 430-foot bridge has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity as at the onset of his murder trial on Monday. The Tampa Bay Times reported that John Jonchuck stopped on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg amid a …

Murder

December 5, 2018

‘Everybody was going to hell’: Dad throws his 5-year-old little girl off 62-foot bridge after ‘hearing voices’ [Court Docs]

A Florida man facing murder charges in connection with his daughter’s death claims that voices made him throw the little girl from a Tampa Bay bridge in 2015, according to recently-released court documents. Tampa Bay Times reports that John Jonchuck admitted to a psychiatrist he threw his 5-year-old daughter, Phoebe, off of the Dick Misener Bridge …