Samantha Bevans (YouTube/KCRG screenshot); Inset: Tacoa Talley (Benton County Jail) and Jodie Bevan (Brosh Chapel).
A 35-year-old woman in Iowa will spend the remainder of her days behind bars for killing her stepmother, suffocating the 58-year-old woman with a pillow and then posting a video to Snapchat proudly confessing to the crime. A jury in Benton County on Monday found Samantha Bevans guilty of first-degree murder in the 2022 slaying of Jodie Bevans, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
Under Iowa state law, non-juvenile defendants convicted of first-degree murder must serve a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
In their first day of deliberation since closing arguments, jurors unanimously found…
