ID: 802045
Open
Please log in to access the confirmation page.
CRYSTAL HOWELL || Teen kills father because she doesn't like rules, hides body, hosts parties, installs stripper pole in kitchen | Gets 30 years in prison | 2 letters
LongfellowSerenade 67
Teen who killed her father, hid his body in a shed and then moved her friends into his eight-bedroom house for drug-fueled parties gets 30 years in prison. Crystal Brooke Howell, 20, killed her father, Michael Howell, 50, in 2014. Howell was a former sports editor and writer for the Columbia County News-Times in North Carolina. She shot her father once point blank in the head while he was napping at their eight-bedroom cabin in a remote area of Sheepback Mountain. She dragged his body to a storage shed and stuffed it into a plastic storage bin. Two of the house guests discovered the body and called cops.
$20.00
- Postage
-
Standard Shipping
$0.00 to United States
Get Additional Rates
- Select Country
- Zip/Post Code
- Quantity
$25.00
5 watching
18 views
No bids posted.
Description
Crystal Howell. Lot of 2 letters: (1) Autographed Letter, Signed. Handwritten, Commercial #10 (4.125 × 9.5 envelope). Charlotte, NC. Pmk: November 6, 2023 and (2) Typed Letter, Signed. Typed envelope, Commercial #10 (4.125 × 9.5 envelope). Salt Lake City, UT. Pmk: November 20, 2023. Content unknown. SEALED.
A young woman who admitted killing her sports editor father with a bullet to the head when she was 17 was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison.
Crystal Brooke Howell, 20, of Maggie Valley, North Carolina, pleaded guilty in Haywood County Court on Monday. She was sentenced on first degree murder charges in the death of her father, Michael Howell, 50, for the 2014 crime.
Crystal, who was 17 at the time of the murder, killed her father with one shot to the head while he napped in their Sheepback Mountain home and then hid her father's body in a shed for a month.
She then started to drive his car and spend his money. She had her friends move in, had a drug-fueled party, and even had a stripper pole installed in the kitchen.
Crystal had been living with her dad after her parents divorced five years earlier.
On February 24, cops say Crystal was caught shoplifting while out with her father, and the two returned home. It was there she began to plot to kill him.
She shot him in the head while he was napping in his eight-bedroom cabin in the rustic mountains and then she disposed of the ejected shell and removed her father's body to a storage shed.
She was able to get her father's body into a plastic storage container and covered it with a sleeping bag, according to the Augusta Chronicle.
She told friends that her father had moved to Georgia and killed himself, then moved several pals into the house.
But it all fell apart on March 22 when two of the men who were staying at the house went into the storage shed and, while cleaning up, moved a pinball machine.
One of the men, Anthony Talley, spotted the plastic storage bin and looked inside, finding Michael's body.
“I never want to see anything like that ever again in my life,” Talley told the Augusta Chronicle. “It has ruined me.”
Crystal's mother, Kristina Rester, said that Crystal had shown up at her house in Augusta, Georgia that day with Michael's Land Rover and a U-Haul trailer, saying her father had released her from custody and that she wanted to live with her mother.
But she only stayed long enough to take a shower and then left to meet a friend. Meanwhile, two of Crystal's house guests were poking around the storage shed at the cabin in Sheepback Mountain and would discover Crystal's gruesome secret.
Rester said her daughter had behavioral difficulties and bucked authority, but that the two of them “had had a good summer” and often spoke.
“The reason she wasn’t living with us was that she couldn’t follow the rules here,” Rester told the outlet.
Crystal's aunt, Brenda Ellis, says her niece is mentally ill.
“I can tell you there is a lot more wrong with Crystal than has come out,” Ennis told the Columbia County News-Times. “There have been so many issues but they have compounded by all that she has been through over the years.”
“She’s not a heinous monster. It is a heartbreaking tragedy, that’s all I know. People need to understand mental illness is serious and can be pushed to the limit, and I think this is what has happened.”
On Monday, Crystal was sentenced to 25 years in prison before she can apply for parole, with an extra five to seven for hiding her father's body.
She will serve her sentence at the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections.i
VIDEO: Season 03 : Episode 14 : Double Feature: Crystal Howell & Tyler Hadley | https://youtu.be/25rTZnlaGHs
Archiving
Protocol:
• Handled with White Gloves ab initio
• Photo Pages/Sheet Protectors: Heavyweight Clear Sheet Protectors, Acid Free & Archival Safe, 8.5 × 11, Top Load
• White Backing Board—Acid Free
Shipping/Packaging: Rigid Mailer 9.5 × 12.5. White, self seal, stay flat, kraft cardboard, no bend. Each rigid mailer is made of heavy cardboard, which has strong resistance to bending and tearing. Thicker that the USPS mailers. Shipping cost never more than it absolutely has to be to get it from me to you.
i Dailymail.com, K. B. F. (2016) Maggie Valley teen Crystal Brooke Howell who killed her father sentenced to 30 years, Daily Mail Online. Associated Newspapers. Available at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3835371/Teen-killed-sports-editor-father-2014-moved-friends-eight-bedroom-house-drug-parties-sentenced-30-years-prison.html (Accessed: 10 November 2023).
Payments & Returns
- Payment Methods
- PayPal, Money Order
Postage & Shipping
- Item Location
- 54911, Wisconsin, United States
- Ships To
- Worldwide
- Pick-ups
- No pick-ups
- Returns Accepted
- No
LongfellowSerenade 67
SCOTT NORDSTROM | Arizona Death Row | Sentenced To Death By The State Of Arizona For Six Murders | Smiles As Verdict is Read | Autographed Letter Signed
Scott Nordstrom was sentenced to death by the State of Arizona for
six murders. According to court documents Scott Nordstrom and Robert
Jones were involved in two robberies that left six people dead. Scott
Nordstrom and Robert Jones were arrested, convicted and sentenced to
death. Robert Jones was executed on October 23, 2013
On May 30, 1996,
Robert Jones and Scott Nordstrom entered the Moon Smoke Shop in
Tucson. Jones immediately began shooting, hitting a customer in the
head and ...
$20.00
0 bids
LongfellowSerenade 67
ROBERT EUGENE CRIMO III | 4th of July Parade Highland Park Shooter | Charged With 21 Counts Of First-Degree Murder, 48 Counts Of Attempted Murder, And 48 Counts Of Aggravated Battery | Autographed Letter, Signed
Robert “Bobby” Eugene Crimo III was involved in a mass shooting
that occurred during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park,
Illinois, United States, on July 4, 2022. The shooting resulted in
seven deaths and 48 injuries. Crimo, who was 21 years old at the
time, was apprehended more than eight hours after the shooting. He
was charged with seven counts of first-degree murder. On July 27, the
charges were upgraded to 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 counts
of attempted murder, ...
$50.00
0 bids
LongfellowSerenade 67
JESSICA MARIE MEADE | Mom Filmed Wrapping Her Crying 1-Year-Old's 'entire body' In Duct Tape Before Blaming Baby's Brain Death Suffocation On Eating 'shellfish' | Autographed Letter Signed
Jessica Meade, 28, of New Albany, Indiana, was sentenced to 16 years
in jail for neglecting her one-year-old child. The incident occurred
when the youngster was found in severe condition after aspirating,
probably as a result of shellfish eating. Meade and her boyfriend
gave conflicting accounts of the incident, and video evidence showed
her wrapping the infant in layers of blankets and duct tape, raising
concerns about the child's safety. In October 2024, Meade reached a
plea agreement, ...
$20.00
0 bids
LongfellowSerenade 67
RACHEL HENRY | 22yo Drug-Addled Mom On Meth Smothered 3 Young Kids To Death While Singing To Them, Then Went For Pizza | 3 Consecutive LWOP + 20yrs | Autographed Letter Signed
Rachel Henry, a Phoenix lady, has pled guilty to the murders of her
three children, Zane, Miraya and Catalaya. The children were
discovered deceased in her home in January 2020. Henry admitted to
smothering them individually and putting their bodies on a couch. She
initially pled not guilty before changing her plea to guilty in
December 2024. The plea agreement includes three counts of
first-degree murder and removes the prospect of the death penalty.
Henry will be sentenced to consecutiv...
$40.00
0 bids
