MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO KILLING & DISMEMBERING 3 PEOPLE & STUFFING THEM INTO A TREE!

A 13-year-old Ohio girl stared down the man who kidnapped and raped her as he pleaded guilty on Thursday to dismembering her mother, brother and a neighbor before stuffing their remains in a tree.

Matthew Hoffman will spend the rest of his life in prison after admitting to the November murders of Tina Herrmann, 32, her 11-year-old son Kody Maynard and Stephanie Sprang, 41.

The girl he raped sat in court and had the prosecutor read a statement to Hoffman.

"I'm not scared of you, Matthew," Knox County prosecutor John Thatcher read to the killer. "I'm going to stand up for myself and live my life."

The girl sat next to her father, Larry Maynard, who laced into Hoffman.

"Matthew Hoffman, when you took my son from me by brutally stabbing him to death repeatedly and then cutting up his body like a piece of meat, a majority of me died with him," Maynard said. "I am very thankful my daughter lived from the wrath of your evil, but she will never be the bubbly, little, innocent girl she once was."

Hoffman stood before the court scruffy and without shoes, uttering little more than "yes" or "no," the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Hoffman's attorney, Bruce Malek, said his client committed the crimes after a "random burglary that went terribly, terribly wrong."

Malek said Hoffman didn't speak in court because he couldn't face his victim without "breaking down."

Prosecutors said Hoffman broke into the girl's home Nov. 10. He killed Herrmann, Sprang and the family's dog after they confronted him. When the girl and her little brother came home from school, she tried to call police, but Hoffman stopped her.

It is unclear when Hoffman killed Kody, prosecutors said. He later chopped up his victims, put them into garbage bags and shoved them into a tree.

He kidnapped the girl and kept her bound and gagged in his basement for four days until she was rescued by police.

Hoffman previously spent six years in prison in Colorado for arson.

Since he pleaded guilty, Hoffman will not face the death penalty. Also part of his deal with prosecutors was that he told law enforcement where the severed bodies were, The Associated Press reported.

"He knew the families needed closure, that they deserved to have their families back and properly buried," Malek said.


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