Phillup Alan "Sonny" Partin (born June 29, 1965, in Sacramento, California) is an American convicted murderer currently on Florida death row at Union Correctional Institution. Partin was sentenced to death by a 9–3 vote in favor of the sentence by a jury on December 1, 2008, for the July 31, 2002 murder of 16-year-old hitchhiker Joshan Ashbrook.
Murder
Evidence at Partin's trial showed that he picked up Ashbrook
as she hitchhiked along U.S. Highway 19 in Florida on July 31, 2002. He and
Ashbrook spent the day fishing and swimming with Partin's daughter, then 6,
before returning to the New Port Richey house where he and his daughter were
living. Prosecutors think Ashbrook was killed between 9 p.m. and midnight. The
next morning, workers found her body in woods off Shady Hills Road. She had
been strangled, her throat gashed and her neck broken. Nine days after the
discovery, Partin dropped his daughter off at the home of a foster mother, Jean Prestridge, later known as Jean Edenfield, in Wauchula and left
the state. His daughter Patrisha's two sisters lived with this foster mother in
her Wauchula home. Jean kept Patrisha for five days but then gave her up to
foster care. He was a fugitive for more than a year before investigators
tracked him to Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was arrested there on October
28, 2003.
Background
Partin was a prostitute with male clients. Partin was
convicted of second-degree murder in Florida after he killed one of his
clients, Gary Thorne, a math teacher
from Key Biscayne. Thorne was strangled with a telephone cord in his home. He
was convicted of second-degree murder, armed robbery, and armed burglary in 1989
and sentenced to 17 years in prison. Partin was released from prison on August
1, 1995. He then worked in construction and had a daughter, Patrisha Windham (born c. 1996), with Martha Windham. He had sole custody of
his daughter before Ashbrook's death.
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