Man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash involved a man named Benjamin Klinger from central Pennsylvania. According to ABC News Local, Klinger pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 30. The man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash by intentionally crashing his car into a Lancaster County guardrail and afterwards suffocating his girlfriend, Samantha Heller, by sitting on her head after realizing she hadn't died from the high-speed crash.
Klinger will reportedly serve 28 to 56 years behind bars.
According to Lancaster Online, 21-year-old Klinger of Elizabethtown was sentenced Friday in Lancaster County Court after pleading guilty to third-degree murder.
The man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash on Dec. 4, 2012, reports The Inquisitr. Klinger was driving a 1986 Toyota Celica west of Strickler Road, on Route 283, at a high-rate of speed of 115 mph during the early morning hours when he committed the murder.
The New York Daily News reports that Klinger intentionally sped into the guardrail along a stretch of roadway in Rapho Township. According to accident investigators, there were no visible signs of braking on the road before impact.
Police also said man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash by sitting on the girl's head after she lived through the crash near Manheim.
According to ABC 30, a truck driver happened upon the wreckage on Dec. 4 and heard Heller screaming. According to The Inquisitr, he also saw Klinger sitting on Heller's head as if intentionally suffocating the poor woman who was already badly injured.
The driver called 911 and was told by operators not to move the crash victims.
Her moans could be heard in an audio of the 911 call, the unsettling sounds of "get off of me" standing out in the background.
According to the arrest affidavit, police testified that when they arrived on the scene, they saw the man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash as Klinger's body was atop Heller's head and torso while she was face-down.
The officers Klinger seemed to be going in and out of consciousness while re-positioning his body on Heller's head. Doctors found out later that Klinger was only faking the fainting spells.
After the autopsy on Heller, the cause of death was found out to be from trauma in the crash in addition to asphyxia, according to The Inquisitr.
On Friday, The Examiner reports that the man finally admitted to killing his 17-year-old girlfriend by suffocating her.
Klinger reportedly showed signs of remorse as he confessed in front of Heller's parents, step-parents and other members of the Heller family.
Though the man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash, he showed regret as he said, "I accept full responsibility for the loss of a very special person," Klinger told the victim's family. I want you to know with all my heart I'm sorry ... really sorry."
According to authorities, Klinger was physically and verbally abusive to Heller during their turbulent, two-year relationship. In the past, Klinger allegedly threw her down a flight of stairs out of anger.
Meanwhile, sources said Heller had just announced that she was pregnant, which though unconfirmed, some speculated was the reason why Klinger killed her. However, there is nothing in the court documents which specified that the baby was Klinger's or if she had been pregnant at all.
Sandy McFalls, the victim's mother, said her heart has been shattered by what had happened. Heller was McFalls' only child. When she learned that the man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash and that the man, Klinger, confessed, she agreed to the terms of the sentence.
According to The Examiner, she replied by detailing how her life has changed with what happened. Flustered, McFalls read a statement in court saying she has become a "prisoner" in her own home.
ABC 30 reports McFalls describing her daughter as a happy, charismatic and loving girl until she met Klinger. Heller reportedly started becoming withdrawn from family and friends. The unstable relationship also reportedly caused Heller to struggle in school.
Before the man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash, the girl was reportedly planning to become a veterinary assistant and enrolling at Lancaster Career and Technology Center soon.
Eventually, the domestic violence in the relationship took its toll.
McFalls said in court that even as they "began to do everything" they "could to keep Sammi away from Ben", it was to no avail
At one point, Klinger drove over Heller's foot after another fit of rage, but she still forgave him and remained in the relationship.
McFalls continued with her statement, "I want you to have nothing else to do (in prison) but think about how you took her life and destroyed ours."
Along with the charges for killing Heller, Klinger's sentence also include time for a drug charge and sending sexually explicit photos of a minor.
Man suffocated girlfriend after deliberate crash case has been heard by Judge Margaret Miller. However, according to The Examiner, she expressed her hopes in court of Klinger coming out of prison a changed man. She then said, "There is no doubt in my mind you lived your life with a callousness, arrogance and a cowardliness, frankly because being a bully is a coward."
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