June 12, 2016 
A teenage horror blogger who went by the nickname ‘Vampchick’ online was sentenced to 23 years in prison plus 17 years on extended supervision for the murder of her mom and stepfather Friday.
Ashlee A. Martinson, 18, committed the murders in March 2015 before locking her sisters in a room with food and juice and fleeing the state of Wisconsin with her boyfriend.
Sentencing her Friday, the judge said he appreciated that she had been abused by her stepfather, but that she should have found ‘the internal strength’ not to turn to murder, Wausau Daily Herald reported.
On March 8, 2015, Martinson shot her stepfather Thomas Ayers, 37, twice with a shotgun and stabbed her mother, 40-year-old Jennifer Ayers, 30 times with a knife.
Oneida County District Attorney Michael Schiek wanted the Rhinelander girl to be given the maximum sentence of 40 years; her lawyers wanted eight. She ultimately took a plea deal.
Speaking at the end of a day-long hearing, Oneida County Circuit Judge Michael Bloom said that although Martinson had received abuse from multiple people, including her stepfather, she made the decision to kill him and her mother.
He said he didn’t believe that she was in danger of death when the murders occurred, and that despite a lack of support from those around her, she should have found the ‘inner strength’ not to kill.
Martinson, who is from Piehl, Wisconsin, had previously told police that her stepfather had mentally and verbally abused her – including killing animals in front of her – as well as her stepsisters and her mother.
The stepsisters had also gave private testimony to Schenk in his office that their father had abused them.
And according to court filings Martinson had been abused by her mother’s previous boyfriends, including one who burnt her with cigarettes and raped her when she was nine.
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