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She was convicted in Harrison County Circuit Court of the kidnap and murder of United States. Air Force Sergeant Ronald Wojcik and the jury sentenced her to death by lethal injection. The guilty verdict was upheld, but the sentence was reversed in 1984, Cannaday v. State, 455 So.2d 713, 720 (Mission 1984), and she was resentenced to one life sentence and two 25-year sentences at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (inmate number 42451).
She was released on parole on March 9, 2008.
The movie Too Young to Die? was loosely based on her crime.