Marine and wife murderers may get death penalty

Mother Speaks Out About Ex-Marines Convicted In Murder Of Daughter, Son-In-Law In French Valley
June 21, 2013

SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA.com) —A mother is speaking out about the former Marines convicted of murdering her daughter and son-in-law in a home invasion robbery in French Valley in 2008.

Sergeant Janek Pietrzak, 24, and his 26-year-old wife, Quiana Faye Jenkins-Pietrzak, were married only 67 days when four Camp Pendleton-based Marines ambushed the couple in their home, stole their belongings and then shot them both.

Jenkins-Pietrzak was also sexually assaulted before she was killed.

On Thursday, a jury recommended the death penalty for Emrys Justin John, 23, and Tyrone Lloyd Miller, 25. A separate jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole for Kevin Darnell Cox, 25. Kesaun Kedron Sykes, 25, is expected to be tried in the summer.
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Two Marines who killed Brooklyn-raised Iraq war vet may get the death penalty
New York Post
By JOSH SAUL
June 22, 2013

A California jury recommended the death penalty yesterday for two US Marines who killed a Brooklyn-raised Iraq war veteran and his young wife after brutally raping her while forcing him to watch.

Tyrone Miller, 25, and Emrys John, 23, were convicted earlier this month of the savage 2008 attack on newlyweds Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24, and his wife Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, in their Riverside County home.

Prosecutors portrayed Miller as the crime’s mastermind, while John fired the fatal shots. A third attacker, Kevin Cox, 25, should get life in prison with no possibility of parole, the jury said.

All three of the twisted thugs were former Marines and had worked with Pietrzak — who grew up in Bensonhurst — while stationed at Camp Pendleton, according to CBS News.

The mothers of the murdered couple – who wore dog tags printed with a photo of their dead children – said there’s no closure.

“The only thing that closed was the casket on our children,” Glenda Faye Jenkins told the Press Enterprise newspaper. “I still have no child. I still have no son-in-law. My house is still quiet. My life is still empty.”

The sergeant’s mother said she is still haunted by how her son was killed.

“It’s not only that they died,” Henryka Varga told the newspaper. “It’s the way they died. You just cannot walk away from that. It’s always with you.”
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