A murderer who killed his girlfriend’s children was executed today by lethal injection.
Jeffrey Weisheit killed Alyssa Lynch, eight, and five-year-old Caleb Lynch by setting fire to his partner’s house in Evansville, Indiana in 2010.
Alyssa’s body was found in a closet and Caleb’s body was on a mattress, restrained with duct tape. A railroad flare was in his underwear and another was under his body.
The children’s mother, Lisa Lynch, was at work at the time and had left the children in Weisheit’s care. The couple were in a relationship but it was breaking down, investigators said.
Weisheit, 50, died at the Indiana
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