But it wasn’t that Conrad had been raped and strangled that got the notice of Conrad, a 9th grader at Russell Junior High School who filled notebooks with her vivid poetry, skipped her afternoon classes on Nov. 3, 1981.
They were stoner kids, or rockers. The charge was dismissed after a closed juvenile hearing. Find the obituary of Anthony Broussard (2017) from Austin, TX. He took Conrad back to his house where he raped and strangled her on the couch.”I was on drugs: LSD,” Broussard later claimed, trying to deflect blame. One girl tore a coveted radio station patch off of Marcy’s jeans. However, recent state court decisions have voided those sentences for defendants under 18 years of age.Two felony sex charges against him were dropped. “Marcy had a tendency to mouth off. She met up with Anthony Jacques Broussard, a hulking 16-year-old from Milpitas High. Dr. Howard H. Lee, a staff psychiatrist, characterized Mr. Broussard's many complaints of mental problems as ''overkill.'' The parents of the 13-@ and 14-year-old victims reportedly wanted to spare their daughters the ordeal of testifying in court.Because he was a juvenile, Mr. Broussard underwent a 90-day psychiatric evaluation before being sentenced.
Samuel G. Benson Jr., a psychiatrist hired by the defense, testified that the defendant had been ''his mother's delight'' and had been devastated when he came home from school at the age of 8 to find her dead. Broussard, who went by his middle name, had found his mother dead in the shower when he was a much younger child.
On Friday, just three days before his 18th birthday, Anthony Jacques Broussard was sentenced here to 25 years to life in prison for the strangling of a 14-year-old girl in … Judge Flaherty had a choice of sending him either to a state prison or to a juvenile center, where he could be held only until his 25th birthday.However, the staff at the California Youth Authority in Sacramento decided that Mr. Broussard was not ''amenable to treatment'' at a juvenile center. (We can only wonder if the patch bore the logo of KSJO or KOME, the two dominant hard-rock stations of the time.) Kirk Rasmussen, 16, was sentenced to three years in a juvenile center for attempting to conceal the crime by covering Miss Conrad's body with leaves. Broussard, who went by his middle name, had found his mother dead in the shower when he was a much younger child. Broussard pleaded to a single charge of first-degree murder in the attempted commission of a felony, rape. What little notoriety it had came from Sleepy Milpitas got the kind of national attention it never wanted, however, when 14-year-old Marcy Renee Conrad’s body was found in a ravine near the Calaveras Reservoir on Nov. 5, 1981. One teen confessed that sudden visions of Marcy’s corpse haunted him during class.Broussard was sentenced to life in prison due to the harsh nature of the crime, sparking off the trend in juvenile justice of trying teens as adults. He said Mr. Broussard appeared to be without feelings ''about human life'' and was ''without emotion, as if nothing touched him.''Dr. He will be eligible for parole after serving 16 years and eight months.The case drew widespread publicity a little more than a year ago because the body of the girl, Marcy Conrad, had been dumped in the foothills outside town and remained unreported for two days while Mr. Broussard brought his friends to see it, after bragging of the killing. ''Two other youths were charged in the case. She met up with Anthony Jacques Broussard, a hulking 16-year-old from Milpitas High.
Gary Meeker told the The press blamed a pervasive moral decline, weed, heavy metal, the 1960s, and television for the teens’ indifference to the murder of their friend.One thing that wasn’t blamed was race, even though Broussard was African-American and Conrad was blonde and white. …Basically, what happened, I just grabbed her and she was dead.”After killing Conrad, Broussard drove her half-naked corpse into the hills and dumped her in that tree-lined ravine. His close friends said that he seemed a little strange after that, but he was considered harmless despite his size.Broussard was anything but harmless on that November afternoon though. Broussard was 16 when he killed Miss Conrad on Nov. 3, 1981. Other teen-agers went on their own to see ''the body in the hills.
Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Another teen covered the body with leaves to help Broussard hide the evidence.These viewings went on for two days before someone finally spoke up, setting off a media firestorm fueled by what would now be called hot takes.“I have never seen a group of people act so callous about death in my 15 years of police work,” Sheriff’s Sgt. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. On Friday, just three days before his 18th birthday, Anthony Jacques Broussard was sentenced here to 25 years to life in prison for the strangling of a 14-year-old girl in a case that became a stigma on the town of Milpitas, a few miles east of here.The sentence came after a hearing on a psychiatric evaluation that determined Mr. Broussard would not be helped by treatment at a juvenile center and should be sent to a state prison. The defense lawyers, Robert Perez and Jerome P. Mullins, then requested the hearing Friday to question staff members about their decision.