Jody Herring Murder Case: Sentencing Hearing Underway

BARRE, VT — A sentencing hearing is underway for Jody Herring, the Vermont woman who admitted to killing a social worker and three family members. Herring will receive a life sentence but the judge in Barre will also decide whether she will be eligible for parole at some point.

Herring pleaded guilty in July to a count of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in the 2015 slayings of social worker Lara Sobel, two of her cousins, Regina Herring and Rhonda Herring, and her aunt Julie Falzarano at their Berlin home.

The court is near the location where she killed Sobel. Witnesses are telling a judge what happened on Aug. 7, 2015, the day of the shootings. The hearing is scheduled to last five days.

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