A Baldwin City woman has pleaded guilty in the death of her mother’s boyfriend at a northeast Kansas lake. Jefferson County attorney Josh Ney announced yesterday that Ashlyn Hemmerling pleaded guilty to premeditated first-degree murder after prosecutors presented evidence in her trial in Jefferson County District Court.
She was charged in the March 2018 shooting death of 22-year-old Taylor Den Sawyer in a remote area of Perry Lake. Her boyfriend, 23-year-old Jonathan Blevins, was convicted in March of first-degree murder in Sawyer’s parole for 50 years. Authorities say, “Sawyer was the boyfriend of Hemmerling’s mother, Sarah Hemmerling, who was charged with obstruction before that charge was dropped.”
Her sentencing is scheduled for July 25th.
