A Washington couple pleaded guilty in the gruesome death of a 19-year-old who they bludgeoned with a cinder block and stabbed several times, claiming he sold their daughter to a sex trafficking organization. In November 2021, John Eisenman, 63, was taken into custody for the 2020 murder of a 19-year-old man whose body was found after he was reportedly left in a car for about a year. According to officers, the crazed father kidnapped the teen, bound him, placed him in a car trunk, and then repeatedly stabbed and struck him in the head with a cinder block.
Eisenman told police at the time of his arrest that the victim, whose identity the family has chosen to keep confidential, had sold his daughter to a sex trafficking organization in Seattle.
According to KREM, Brenda Kross, the father’s fiance, entered a guilty plea to manslaughter and Eisenman entered a guilty plea to first-degree murder when they appeared in court on Thursday. She admitted in her statement of guilt that there was no proof of sex trafficking.
When Eisenman was arrested, Spokane police stated he had been told the victim would be in Airway Heights, a city less than 10 miles west of Spokane, and he had waited for him to show up before grilling him. During that encounter Eisenman abducted the victim, tying him up and placing him in the trunk of a vehicle, police said in a statement. Eisenman subsequently assaulted the victim by hitting him in the head with a cinder block and then stabbed him repeatedly, causing his death.
The body of the deceased was left in the car’s trunk, where it stayed for over a year. According to police, it was relocated to the northeast Spokane neighborhood of Hillyard in October 2021. The body was found by accident. [I]ndividuals were rummaging through the car and taking items when they made the gruesome discovery, police said.
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Eisenman was later apprehended after that car was linked to him. According to court documents, Eisenman and Brooks will be sentenced on January 16. Prosecutors have decided to seek comparatively low sentences for both; they will suggest a 22-year sentence for Eisenman and eight years in prison plus three years of community service for Kross.
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Eisenman’s allegation of sex trafficking made the killing a national issue, and he was able to raise money for his legal defense on a crowd-funding website. He then stated that he was probably under the effects of methamphetamine when the murder occurred.
