The 38-year-old man accused of killing and dismembering a Seattle-area mom last year pleaded guilty on Monday to her first-degree murder, People confirms.
According to investigators, John Robert Charlton, who has been described as a homeless day laborer, strangled Ingrid Lyne, a 40-year-old nurse and divorced mother-of-three, on the morning of April 9, 2016.
Charlton and Lyne met on an online dating site and had been seeing each other for about a month before her slaying, he told police. One of her friends told People they had been seeing each other for six to eight weeks.
Lyne was reported missing after, Charlton said,...
According to investigators, John Robert Charlton, who has been described as a homeless day laborer, strangled Ingrid Lyne, a 40-year-old nurse and divorced mother-of-three, on the morning of April 9, 2016.
Charlton and Lyne met on an online dating site and had been seeing each other for about a month before her slaying, he told police. One of her friends told People they had been seeing each other for six to eight weeks.
Lyne was reported missing after, Charlton said,...
- 10/4/2017
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
A GoFundMe page established to help the three daughters of murdered Seattle-area woman Ingrid Lyne has raised more than $217,000 in one week. The Saturday before last, the dismembered remains of Lyne, a 40-year-old nurse, were found in a recycling bin. John Robert Charlton, 37, who told police he had been dating Lyne for about a month, has been charged with her murder. He is due in court April 27 and his attorney, Gordon Hill, has not returned People's calls. The GoFundMe page was launched by Melissa Korda, who describes herself on the page as a local friend of the family. "Ingrid...
- 4/18/2016
- by Greg Hanlon, @GregHanlon
- PEOPLE.com
A GoFundMe page established to help the three daughters of murdered Seattle-area woman Ingrid Lyne has raised more than $217,000 in one week. The Saturday before last, the dismembered remains of Lyne, a 40-year-old nurse, were found in a recycling bin. John Robert Charlton, 37, who told police he had been dating Lyne for about a month, has been charged with her murder. He is due in court April 27 and his attorney, Gordon Hill, has not returned People's calls. The GoFundMe page was launched by Melissa Korda, who describes herself on the page as a local friend of the family. "Ingrid...
- 4/18/2016
- by Greg Hanlon, @GregHanlon
- PEOPLE.com
Detectives for the Seattle Police Department tell People that "suspected human remains" have been found in the neighborhood where murdered mom Ingrid Lyne's dismembered remains were found last weekend. A police spokesman tells People the suspected remains were recovered from a container located roughly two blocks from the recycling bin where Lyne's dismembered parts were found. The spokesman confirms that investigators are exploring a "probable connection" between the newly-discovered body parts and Lyne's homicide. John Robert Charlton, 37, faces charges of first-degree murder and theft in connection with the death of Lyne, 40. Lyne's remains were found on Saturday, just hours after she was reported missing.
- 4/15/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
Detectives for the Seattle Police Department tell People that "suspected human remains" have been found in the neighborhood where murdered mom Ingrid Lyne's dismembered remains were found last weekend. A police spokesman tells People the suspected remains were recovered from a container located roughly two blocks from the recycling bin where Lyne's dismembered parts were found. The spokesman confirms that investigators are exploring a "probable connection" between the newly-discovered body parts and Lyne's homicide. John Robert Charlton, 37, faces charges of first-degree murder and theft in connection with the death of Lyne, 40. Lyne's remains were found on Saturday, just hours after she was reported missing.
- 4/15/2016
- by Chris Harris, @chrisharrisment
- PEOPLE.com
The grisly nature of the death and dismemberment of Seattle-area mom Ingrid Lyne has investigators wondering if accused killer John Robert Charlton may have killed before. While they look for more remains after finding the severed head, arm and leg of the Renton, Washington, nurse in a Seattle recycling bin last Saturday, local police are being assisted by the FBI in a wider search for possibly connected victims, People confirms. "This killing was a specific type of murder," says an FBI source who has knowledge of the investigation but was not authorized to speak publicly. "Not to belabor the obvious,...
- 4/15/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
The grisly nature of the death and dismemberment of Seattle-area mom Ingrid Lyne has investigators wondering if accused killer John Robert Charlton may have killed before. While they look for more remains after finding the severed head, arm and leg of the Renton, Washington, nurse in a Seattle recycling bin last Saturday, local police are being assisted by the FBI in a wider search for possibly connected victims, People confirms. "This killing was a specific type of murder," says an FBI source who has knowledge of the investigation but was not authorized to speak publicly. "Not to belabor the obvious,...
- 4/15/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Much has been revealed about the man accused of the murder and dismemberment of a Seattle-area mom, but key questions remain. How did Ingrid Lyne, 40, a nurse and divorced mother-of-three, come to date and trust John Robert Charlton, 37, a man who told police he was "homeless" and whose prior flashes of violence led his own parents to seek a restraining order against him? And why, ultimately, was Lyne killed? "We may never understand why she was killed," King County, Washington, Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said in announcing the first-degree murder charge against Charlton, "but the police and prosecutors working on this...
- 4/15/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Much has been revealed about the man accused of the murder and dismemberment of a Seattle-area mom, but key questions remain. How did Ingrid Lyne, 40, a nurse and divorced mother-of-three, come to date and trust John Robert Charlton, 37, a man who told police he was "homeless" and whose prior flashes of violence led his own parents to seek a restraining order against him? And why, ultimately, was Lyne killed? "We may never understand why she was killed," King County, Washington, Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said in announcing the first-degree murder charge against Charlton, "but the police and prosecutors working on this...
- 4/15/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
The parents of the suspect in the death and dismemberment of a Seattle-area mom said in petition for a restraining order against him that he had abused crack cocaine and alcohol. John Robert Charlton, 37, was named by parents Ray and JoAnn in the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by People. "[Charlton] has been known to hold grudges for several years and exposes frustrations when under the influence of alcohol or drugs," the pair wrote in the request for the restraining order. "These frustrations he displays can be very intimidating and cause fear of violence," they wrote. Charlton faces charges...
- 4/14/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
The parents of the suspect in the death and dismemberment of a Seattle-area mom said in petition for a restraining order against him that he had abused crack cocaine and alcohol. John Robert Charlton, 37, was named by parents Ray and JoAnn in the complaint, a copy of which was obtained by People. "[Charlton] has been known to hold grudges for several years and exposes frustrations when under the influence of alcohol or drugs," the pair wrote in the request for the restraining order. "These frustrations he displays can be very intimidating and cause fear of violence," they wrote. Charlton faces charges...
- 4/14/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
The suspect in the death and dismemberment of a Seattle-area nurse once threatened his own mother by directing her toward the film Hannibal - about a cannibalistic serial killer - and telling her to "beware," according to a court record shared with People. John Robert Charlton, 37, was named in a complaint by his parents, Ray and JoAnn Charlton, who filed a request for a protective order against their son in Thurston County, Washington, after encountering him verbally abusive and apparently drunk at their home in 2006. Charlton, 37, is charged with second-degree murder and currently jailed on a $2 million bond in connection...
- 4/13/2016
- by Jeff Truesdell, @ jhtruesdell
- PEOPLE.com
Police records obtained by People show a series of text messages between Ingrid Lyne, the married mother-of-three whose dismembered remains were discovered in a Seattle recycling bin, and her alleged killer. According to a certification for determination of probable cause, hours before a homeowner found Lyne's remains in the bin, her mother, Jorga Bass, entered Lyne's home to find her belongings - a purse, phone, computer and tablet - but no sign of her daughter. She looked up a recurring number on her daughter's phone and, via internet research, discovered that it allegedly belonged to the suspect, John Robert Charlton,...
- 4/13/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Police records obtained by People show a series of text messages between Ingrid Lyne, the married mother-of-three whose dismembered remains were discovered in a Seattle recycling bin, and her alleged killer. According to a certification for determination of probable cause, hours before a homeowner found Lyne's remains in the bin, her mother, Jorga Bass, entered Lyne's home to find her belongings - a purse, phone, computer and tablet - but no sign of her daughter. She looked up a recurring number on her daughter's phone and, via internet research, discovered that it allegedly belonged to the suspect, John Robert Charlton,...
- 4/13/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
The Seattle mother of three whose dismembered remains were discovered in a recycling bin had begun to trust her accused killer after meeting him online nearly two months ago, a friend tells People. Crissa Franceschina says Ingrid Lyne met John Robert Charlton, 37, on a dating site and she had told friends about their upcoming date to a Seattle Mariners baseball game last Friday. "There was some trust involved obviously [between] her and him," Franceschina says. Franceschina says Lyne didn't tell her a lot about Charlton, but she believes they had been seeing each other for six to eight weeks. Lyne was...
- 4/13/2016
- by Harriet Sokmensuer, @HGSokmensuer
- PEOPLE.com
The Seattle mother of three whose dismembered remains were discovered in a recycling bin had begun to trust her accused killer after meeting him online nearly two months ago, a friend tells People. Crissa Franceschina says Ingrid Lyne met John Robert Charlton, 37, on a dating site and she had told friends about their upcoming date to a Seattle Mariners baseball game last Friday. "There was some trust involved obviously [between] her and him," Franceschina says. Franceschina says Lyne didn't tell her a lot about Charlton, but she believes they had been seeing each other for six to eight weeks. Lyne was...
- 4/13/2016
- by Harriet Sokmensuer, @HGSokmensuer
- PEOPLE.com
As authorities continue to piece together the murder of Ingrid Lyne, grisly details are beginning to come to light. According to the Seattle Times, after searching in the nurse's home, detectives found blood, pieces of flesh and a 15-inch pruning saw in the bathroom of Lyne's home. They also found kitchen trash bags which "appear identical in color and size" to the bag that held Lyne's body parts - reportedly including her head, foot and arm. Investigators are continuing to look for the remaining parts of Lyne's body, the newspaper reports. The suspect, John Robert Charlton, 37, is currently being held...
- 4/13/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
The man arrested in connection with the death of Ingrid Lyne, the Seattle-area woman police believe is the victim whose dismembered remains were found in a Seattle recycling bin, has a lengthy criminal history, People confirms. Police arrested 37-year-old John Robert Charlton in connection with the death of Lyne, a 40-year-old mother of three from Renton who went missing over the weekend. A spokesman for the department tells People Charlton has a lengthy rap sheet: The Seattle Times reports he was convicted for assault in King County in 1997 and a battery in Idaho in 2009. Lyne was reported missing on Saturday,...
- 4/12/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
The man arrested in connection with the death of Ingrid Lyne, the Seattle-area woman police believe is the victim whose dismembered remains were found in a Seattle recycling bin, has a lengthy criminal history, People confirms. Police arrested 37-year-old John Robert Charlton in connection with the death of Lyne, a 40-year-old mother of three from Renton who went missing over the weekend. A spokesman for the department tells People Charlton has a lengthy rap sheet: The Seattle Times reports he was convicted for assault in King County in 1997 and a battery in Idaho in 2009. Lyne was reported missing on Saturday,...
- 4/12/2016
- by Char Adams, @CiCiAdams_
- PEOPLE.com
Queensland’s Jmb FX Studio won the Emmy for Most Outstanding Prosthetics for a Series, Mini-Series or Movie for its work on the mini-series The Pacific.
“This was the largest production we have worked on in relation to the scope of the design, the fabrication and the shoot, spanning over 13 months. I am very proud of my entire team and the recognition we have received with this Emmy Award win,” said designer and department head Jason Baird.
Also present at the event were on-set supervisor Sean Genders and make-up artists Jac and Robert Charlton.
Jmb FX shared the award with La-based Knb FX, which shared responsibilities with the Queensland company.
“This award showcases the high quality of Australian film technicians and Australia as a location for filming. We are all very proud of the quality of work we created for The Pacific and this recognition highlights our ability to stand...
“This was the largest production we have worked on in relation to the scope of the design, the fabrication and the shoot, spanning over 13 months. I am very proud of my entire team and the recognition we have received with this Emmy Award win,” said designer and department head Jason Baird.
Also present at the event were on-set supervisor Sean Genders and make-up artists Jac and Robert Charlton.
Jmb FX shared the award with La-based Knb FX, which shared responsibilities with the Queensland company.
“This award showcases the high quality of Australian film technicians and Australia as a location for filming. We are all very proud of the quality of work we created for The Pacific and this recognition highlights our ability to stand...
- 8/24/2010
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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