Ryan Lawrence, 25, took a baseball bat and beat his 21-month-old daughter, Maddox, to death.
Then he burned her body in a fire pit and tied her remains to a cinder block and dumped it into the Onondaga Creek located in Syracuse. Shortly after that, Lawrence pleaded guilty to first and second-degree murder.
Morgan Lawrence, Maddox’s mother, told police that Ryan was supposed to pick her up from work the night he disappeared with Maddox, instead, he just left a car for her in the parking lot. Read the full story here ▶
