Career
Partin was sentenced to death by a 9-3 vote in favour of the sentence by a jury on December 1, 2008 for the July 31, 2002 murder of 16-year-old hitchhiker Joshan Ashbrook. Evidence at Partin"s trial showed that he picked up Ashbrook as she hitchhiked along Florida on July 31, 2002. Prosecutors think Ashbrook was killed between 9 p.m. and midnight.
The next morning, workers found her body in woods off Shady Hills Road.
She had been strangled, her throat gashed and her neck broken. Jean kept Patrisha for five days but then gave her up to foster care.
He was a fugitive for more than a year before investigators tracked him to Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was arrested there on October 28, 2003.
The crime was featured on the HLN crime show "Forensic Files".
Partin was a prostitute with male clients. Partin was previously convicted of second-degree murder in Florida after he killed one of his clients, Gary Thorne. He was convicted of second-degree murder, armed robbery and armed burglary in 1989 and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Partin was released from prison on August 1, 1995.
He then worked in construction and had a daughter, Patrisha Windham (born c 1996), with Martha Windham.
