A man from Michigan who was convicted of the murder in the brutal stabbing death of his girlfriend has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Joshua Salyers, 32, brutally killed Barbara Dailey, 22, last year slashing her throat while she was home alone.
Salyers finally admitted to murdering the mother-of-three. After the couple had a massive argument, she broke up with him and kicked him out of their family home.
Joshua Salyers, 32, was found guilty of the murder of Barbara Dailey, 22 and will now spend the rest of him life behind bars
Joshua Salyers, 32, has been sentenced to life in jail without parole after mother-of-three Barbara Dailey, 22, (center) was brutally killed inside her Michigan home
During the trial he protested his innocence claiming he was attempting to stop her from committing suicide by slashing her own throat.
Dailey suffered severe blunt force trauma to her head, neck and upper back and four cuts on her neck.
One of them was a 12-centimeter gash, deep enough to cut her jugular vein and trachea.
She was also covered in bruises, evidence that she had been strangled along with cuts and abrasions which indicated to the medical examiner that she had been in a fight for her life.
Dailey’s (left) body was covered in bruises and had a cut across her throat. Initially, Salyers said his girlfriend had been attacked by someone else
When police arrived, they found Dailey with cuts and a blunt force trauma to the head. Salyers was also at the scene
Judge Timothy Hicks said the grisly murder was among the most ‘vicious’ he has seen in his time on the bench.
‘I’ve been here about 21 years now, and only a couple of other times have I seen such a vicious injury as that you inflicted on Ms. Dailey,’ Hicks said.
‘The only way he will find peace is he accepts what he did. Salyers needs to the think about what Dailey’s thoughts were in the last few moments of her life.’
At the time of his arrest Salyers told that he saw someone else running from the murder scene which lead to police taking an innocent man into custody at gunpoint – he then later blamed Dailey for her own death.
According to MLive Before Salyers was sentenced, four of Dailey’s family members addressed the judge to give impact statements.
‘I truly hope he can accept his crimes and accept his guilt,’ Doug Carlson, a neighbor and family friend said. ‘He stole the life of a beautiful mother, leaving three beautiful girls behind who will never feel her love again. Words can’t describe the hurt and pain you’ve made everybody feel.
‘I want you to feel pain every day for the rest of your life. I called you a friend and trusted you.’
The mother had recently kicked Salyers out of the house and broken up with him