‘Want You to Suffer’: Sister of Texas Woman Left Unrecognizable After She Was Found Dead Days Later Wants Her ‘Monster’ Husband to Endure Life of Fear During 72-Year Prison Sentence

When 46-year-old Jenean Chapman was found dead in her blood-soaked Dallas apartment in October 2023, family members didn’t recognize her. “It’s hard to wrap our brains around the fact that she’s dead because it’s like, it didn’t look like her,” her sister, Crystal Marshall, said in an interview in 2023. Last Friday, the victim’s family got their chance to address the man just convicted of killing Chapman, an accomplished businesswoman who had once worked as an assistant for Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. Jenean Chapman with her husband. (Credit: Facebook) “May you endure a life of perpetual fear and decay, confined to an existent devoid of solace or redemption. I want you to suffer. Every day for the rest of your life,” Charene Chapman told James Michael Patrick, her late sister’s husband of three months. “And I want him to hear those words forever.” Jurors deliberated Patrick’s fate for two days. Had they concluded he acted in a moment of sudden passion, he would’ve likely received two to 20 years in prison. But, with Patrick’s history of violence toward Chapman in mind, they sentenced him to 72 years. “My sister was a classic domestically abused woman,” Crystal Marshall told...