Dustin Lynch was fifteen years old when he would murder JoLynn Mishne in Ohio. Sent to prison Lynch would kill again
According to court documents Dustin Lynch would be kicked out of his own house for his bad behavior. The Mishne family would allow him to live with them as he had no other place to go.
Dustin Lynch would payback their kindness by murdering JoLynn Mishne by beating the teen with a bedpost and then fatally stabbing her
Dustin Lynch would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison
However the teen killer would show up in the Ohio headlines again when he would murder his cellmate Arturo Lopez. Lopez who was serving time for a sexual assault was found dead inside of the cell he shared with Lynch. When asked about the murder Dustin would reply the world had one less sex offender.
Dustin Lynch would receive a second life sentence
Dustin Lynch Current Information
| Number | A460592 |  |
| DOB | 12/03/1986 | |
| Gender | Male | |
| Race | White | |
| Admission Date | 12/23/2003 | |
| Institution | Ohio State Penitentiary | |
| Status | INCARCERATED |
Dustin Lynch Case
A Toledo prison inmate already serving a life sentence for the murder of a teenage girl strangled another inmate to death in March, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The patrol says Dustin Lynch of Medina, Ohio strangled fellow inmate Arturo Lopez to death on March 17. That is just a week after the patrol says Lynch scolded another inmate with boiling water and stabbed him in the back with a shank. Inmate Christopher Trent had to be hospitalized after that attack, but survived.
Lynch has been charged with the murder of Lopez, and felonious assault in the attack on Trent. He will be arraigned in Lucas County Court, but no date for his arraignment has been set.
Lynch was sentenced to serve 20 years to life in the Toledo Correctional Institution in 2003
Police: Toledo inmate strangled man to death one week after burning, stabbing another | wtol.com
Dustin Lynch News
A convicted killer serving 20 years to life has been handed a life sentence for killing an inmate at Toledo Correctional Center.
A judge sentenced 26-year-old Dustin Lynch on Tuesday to life without parole.
Lynch had pleaded no contest in the strangling of Arturo Lopez last March at the north Toledo prison. According to online records for Lopez, the 43-year-old was behind bars on a rape conviction from 2005 and was scheduled for within a year of his murder.
The Blade reports that the 26-year-old Lynch already was serving a sentence for killing a 17-year-old girl in Medina County in 2002.
The most recent inmate-on-inmate murder was the jailâ??s fourth in the past 13-months, in addition to an inmate suicide. Prior to the recent string of violence, the last inmate murder at TOCI occurred in 2000. A recent report from the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee suggests the increase in violence is the result of changes enacted by Governor John Kasich in 2011
Records show violence at the prison rose after the state started doubling up inmates in the same cell to deal with overcrowding. ecords show violence at the prison rose after the state started doubling up inmates in the same cell to deal with overcrowding.
Convicted killer sentenced for murder inside Toledo prison
Dustin Lynch Other News
A 17-year-old changed his plea to guilty in the beating death of a teenage girl despite the advice of his attorney.
Dustin Lynch offered no explanation for why he punched, stabbed and beat JoLynn Mishne (pictured, right) to death in her Montville Township home in November 2002.
When asked by Judge Christopher Collier on Monday whether he had anything to say before his sentencing, he whispered, “Nope.”
Lynch’s attorney, V. Lee Winchell said he was opposed to Lynch’s plea. He said Lynch insisted that he wanted to plead guilty to a single count of aggravated murder, which carries life in prison with no chance of parole for 20 years, in exchange for other charges being dropped.
Lynch, who was 15 at the time of the murder, could not have faced the death penalty.
An hour before the abrupt change of plea, Winchell, was prepared to ask to be removed from the case because of Lynch’s erratic behavior, which included mailing bloodstained, taunting confession letters from jail to the victim’s family and prosecutors.
Mishne’s mother, Lori, sat hunched over in the courtroom and sobbed loudly as her statement had to be read by someone else.
“I feel not one shred of compassion,” she said. “I want (Lynch) to suffer.”
She said it was the compassion that she taught her daughter that led to her death.
Lynch had been a guest at the Mishne home after JoLynn, 17, said the wayward teen had no other place to stay.
A week into his stay, JoLynn’s father, Merle “Mickey” Mishne, found his daughter’s body in the home.
Merle Mishne directed his anger at the court system and the prosecutor’s office, which he called a joke.
Mishne complained that, because of Prosecutor Dean Holman’s eagerness to cut a deal and avoid a trial, he will never know what motivated Lynch to kill his daughter.
Holman said the Mishnes agreed to the plea agreement.
