Darwin Bagshaw was a fourteen year old living in Utah when he would murder his pregnant girlfriend Anne Kasprzak
According to court documents Darwin Bagshaw and Anne Kasprzak were in a relationship. Unfortunately Anne became pregnant and when she told Darwin that they should runaway together he did the unthinkable
Darwin Bagshaw would beat to death Anne Kasprzak using a shovel. Her body would be found the next day and Darwin was soon arrested
Darwin Bagshaw would be convicted and sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison
Darwin Bagshaw Current Information
| Offender # | Name | Location | Housing Facility | Release Date/Type | Case Manager | Case Manager Email |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 227166 | DARWIN CHRISTOPHER BAGSHAW | CENTRAL UTAH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY | CUCF BOULDER | N/A | JANELLE TURNER |
Darwin Bagshaw Case
Darwin Christopher Bagshaw will spend 15 years to life in prison for the murder for Annie Kasprazak.
Sentencing for Bagshaw, 18, who confessed to murdering his girlfriend, Annie Kasprzak, and dumping her body in the Jordan River, was held Monday afternoon starting at 2 p.m.
He pleaded guilty to the first-degree felony earlier this year but was 14-years-old when he killed her while under the influence of drugs, according to his defense. He could spend the rest of his life in prison for the first-degree felony murder after a guilty plea to the crime in Feb. 29.
Bagshaw took the stand to speak after the victim’s family and prosecutors and defense teams presented facts.
“I’m very sorry for this,” Bagshaw said.
Annie Kasprzak’s body was found in March 2010, she was 15 and was brutally beaten to death according to police records.Witnesses filled the courtroom in anticipation for Monday’s sentencing.
The defense said Bagshaw high on spice on the night of the murder. Kasprzak showed up to the meeting and told Bagshaw she was pregnant. They say he reacted by hitting her with a shovel several times. An autopsy later showed that she was not pregnant.
The defense agreed that Darwin Bagshaw needed to be punished but said, as a 14-year-old who committed the crime, not as an adult. The defense called for five years to life instead of 15 years to life.
The defense called Dr. Davies, a witness, to talk about Bagshaw’s age and brain development at the time of the crime. He said he never evaluated Bagshaw.
“Adolescents are emotionally driven…they do stupid things,” Davies said.
Prosecutors said the event was planned and said the victim even plead for her life but was told to shut up and Bagshaw still delivered the fatal blow.
Dennis Kasprzak, the victim’s father, said when he identified his daughter, what he saw was not his daughter but something you might see hit by a train. He said she wasn’t hit by a shover but repeated hits over and over. Her lips were split and her nose was gone.
He pointed at Bagshaw during sentencing and spoke to him directly.
“You know what you did!”
The victim’s stepmother, Jennifer Kazprezak took the stand and said that during the period when the murder wasn’t solved, Bagshaw could have come forward to say he killed her but didn’t.Dennis Kasprzak made the same point and that for two years Bagshaw never came forward.
Jennifer Kazprezak said a day doesn’t go by when she doesn’t yearn for Annie.
“I want her back,” she said. “He not only took her life, he took all of our lives.”
“The world lost an angel,” Dennis Kazprezak said. “I lost an angel.”
Veronica Kasprzak, Annie’s mother, also took the stand and read from the victim’s journal with a lists of 25 reasons she liked herself.
She said she never forget Annie and the night Bagshaw decided his future was better than hers.
Kasprzak’s family said in 2014 that Bagshaw and Kasprzak were together for about a year and a half. In March 2012 Kasprzak’s body was found in the Jordan River in Draper. Investigator say she had been beaten to death.
“A terrible crime deserves a serious sentence,” the judge said and he handed down the 15-years-to-life sentence.
Utah teen sentenced 15 years to life for murder of girlfriend, found in river
