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UPDATE (TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2024): Brian Joseph Dorsey (52) was executed this evening by the State of Missouri. Official time of death was 6:11pm local time. Dorsey had his final meal at 11:00am this morning that consisted of two bacon double-cheeseburgers, two orders of chicken strips, pizza with sausage, pepperoni, onion, mushrooms, and extra cheese, and two large orders of fries. No reports from the media at this time of last words spoken just prior to being executed. In a written statement dated April 7, Dorsey expressed remorse and apologized to the families of murder victims, Ben and Sarah Bonnie, which includes his own family, since he and Sarah were cousins.
according to the case files on december 23 rd of the year 2oo6 earlier in the day brian dorsey had called his cousin sarah bonnie in new bloomfield asking to borrow money so that he could pay two drug dealers there were in his apartment, some reports indicate that the drug dealers were a male and a female.
sara declined to loan dorsey the money. but apparently offered to help him get rid of the people in his apartment.
sarah’s husband benjamin bonnie known more as simply ben, called a friend named darren carol and told him he needed help getting two people to leave dorsey’s apartment.
sarah and ben then drove to dorsey’s apartment with darren with another friend.
the two drug dealers left the apartment,brian dorsey went with sarah and ben and the ther two men back to sarah and ben’s home.sarah’s four year old daughter jade marie was there by that time after having been dropped off by the grandmother. sarah’s mother diane mosier.
for some reason some report report shoe the four year old as ben and sara’s niece . but documention from family shows she wasn in fact ben and sara’s dauhter not niece.
several more friends had gathered at the home that day and they all spent spent the evening
drinking beer and shooting pool at a pool table in the garage.a shotgun that was lying on the pooltable was moved aeay so they could play.
later that night after everyone had left and while everyone else in the house was asleep, brian dorsey went to the garage and retrived the shotgun that was in there.
he ten went in back in the house and then shot and killed both his cousin saraha and her husband.he then sexually assaulted sara’s deceased body .
brian dorsey would later say that he had drank about 10 beers that night and vodka also. dorsey then took sara’s social security card from her wallet and scattered the remaining contents of the wallet beside her boddy .
he stole various itens from the home and then he poured bleach on sarah’s torso genital and thights.dorsy left the home in sara’s car.
the four year old daughter jade marie bonnie who was left alone in the home with the two dead bodies was not harm and had apperently slept through the incident.
brian dorcy then drow to jefferson city.and met with a women at her home arriving in sarah bonnir’s car.
to get that women to loan him money to buy drugs.it was almost 4 in the morning and that women patricia canella later told investigators that dorsey was heavily intoxicated in exchange for money.
dorsey offered to give the women various items that were later determined to have come from sarah and ben’s home.patricia canella also later tell police about the car that he was driving.and that he had said,that the car was his.
police would later discover the car abandoned with some of ben and sarah’s property still in the car including the the shotgun.
the folowing day on the afternoon of december 24th sara’s parents brian dorsey’s aunt and uncle mike and diana went to check on sara and ben because they did not show up for a family gathering that they had planned.
mike mosier sara’s father ,who passed away a few years ago was the brother of patricia dorcy brian dorcey’s mother .patricia has also since passed in the year 2016.
mike mosier and his wife diana went inside the daughters home and found their 4 year old granddaughter sitting on the couch watching television. jade marie told her grandparents that she had tried to awaken her mom all morning by calling out her name and knocking on the bedroom door , which was locked but that she won’t wake up she said .
sarah’s father mike called out through the bedroom door to sarah and knocked on it. there was no response.
the door was locked so sara’s father forced the door open he saw sarah and and ben on the bed. after sarah’s father informed his wife that sarah and ben were dead they left the home with the young girl and contacted police .
the investigation confirmed that both sarah and ben both died from a single gunshot wound to the head. police also observed the fluids spilled onto sara’s torso and genitals that left stains.and that appeared to be bleach.
later testing revealed that there were semens cells recovered from sarah¨s body containing foreign DNA.
brian dorsey was aware from telephonee conversations with members of his family that police were lookingfor him to question him because he was one of the individuals at ben and sarah’s home that night that they were killed.
3 days after the murders on december 26th 2006 brian voluntarly turned himself into police and told them that he is the one that they loocking for regarding the murders of sarah and benand DNA, recovered from bonnie’confirmed it .
2 years after the crime brian dorsey pleaded guilty two to counts of first degree murder
a jury recommended sentences of death for each mrder. and the judge agreed
sarah’s parents , mike and diana mosier ended up raising their granddaughter. jade marie bonnie.looking at her facebook we can see that she is now in her early 20s
her latest profile picture where she appears to be with her parents when she was little girl. the picture is captioned with a juctice for for the bonnis hashtag.as well as no clemency hashtag.
surely referring to the upcomin g excection schedules for brian dorsey and hoping any clemency for him is denied.
in 2021 when he had an execution scheduled that year that execution was stayed an he received another execution date that was stayed again and that execution has now been rescheduledonce again for june 6. 2024.
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APRIL 9, 2024
Missouri will execute a man on death row on Tuesday. Gov. Mike Parson announced Monday afternoon he would not stop the execution of convicted murderer Brian Dorsey.
The execution was carried out by a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre.
The state carried out Dorsey’s death sentence by lethal injection at Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri’s Department of Corrections said in a statement. He was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. local time.
More than 70 current and former corrections officers had urged Parson to commute Dorsey’s sentence, arguing he had been rehabilitated, and his lawyers said that Dorsey was in a drug-induced psychosis when he committed the killings in 2006.