David Onstott is now in prison for life

David Onstott is now in prison for life.




Onstott made his apologizes in court before he was sentenced. He apologized to Sara Lunde’s mother Kelly May. Onstott said "For what it's worth, I'm sure she doesn't want to hear it," Onstott said. "Kelly, my condolences. I'm sorry”

I could probably agree with Onstott when he said to Kelly that he was sure that she did not want to hear it, I’m sure she did not want to hear it nor did anyone else.

This coming from the man that pleaded not guilty at the beginning of trial.

Now we have successfully wasted all the time and resources of the court for some lame attempts from the defense to spare a killers life.

This trial could have gone either way with the defense successfully getting some of the evidence thrown out of court. But the prosecution still had some key witnesses up its sleeve.



During the trial we got to hear from Daryll Daoust, 18, who is a former friend of Onstott.





Now I’m not sure what the purpose was of having him testify that he had sex with a minor child twice, but the main goal of the prosecution was to prove that a beer bottle left in Lunde’s house belonged to Onstott.

After Sarah was found missing Daoust said Onstott went back to the trailer for his unfinished beer.

Of course we also got to hear during trial the phone conversation where Onstott whispers on tape to his mother that he killed her. Then sadly the defense was able to have Onstott’s taped confession to the police thrown out of court and even more sadly the prosecution elected not to pursue the death penalty in this case.

We got to hear that Onstott, while in jail was using his skills to teach other inmates how to take someone down. The one inmate testified that Onstott put his arm on my throat and had his arm around me and kinda choked me down. Onstott told his inmate friend to tap him on leg when he started to lose consciousness and he would let go of him.



Then during the trial we got to hear from a former detention deputy.





Former detention deputy Brian Herndon took the stand and testified that Onstott said he went to his ex-girlfriends house for a booty call and once inside he got into a fight with her daughter.

This testimony was seen as key testimony since the case lacked any physical or forensic evidence to convict Onstott.

But the defense failed miserably. They may have spared his life and for reasons I will never understand why, but in the end he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for his crimes.

 Finally he is where he belongs. Only if he was convicted of his other crimes he would never had the opportunity to kill Sarah Lunde.

And all Onstott could say for his confession was my condolences and I’m sorry.

Kelly May said she didn’t care to hear the apology from Onstott, but she did want people to hear the taped confession with the detectives just six days after Sarah was killed.

This is the confession that the defense got thrown out of court so the jury never got to hear it. Here is a brief transcript of what was said

During the interview, Onstott told the detectives he did it.

Onstott: "I did it. Are we done?"
Detective: "What's that?"
Onstott: "I did it."

Then detectives continued questioning him about how he did it.

Detective: "You said you remember choking her."
Onstott: "I remember choking her. I don't remember where."
Detective: "You don't remember where? Was it inside the trailer? Was it outside? Was it in the lanai?"
Onstott: "I don't remember. I know, I know, I know I choked her."

Since Kelly May knew about the confession all along she pleaded with the judge to take Onstott off the streets for good.

"I just beg of you don't let him out again," she said. "Please don't for society's sake. Because it will happen again."

That brings us to the end of the Onstott case. He was convicted and now in prison for the rest of his life right where he belongs.











This case was handled awesomely by the prosecution. Without physical or forensic evidence they still claimed victory to a life sentence for a registered sex offender that turned into a vicious cold blooded child killer.