Death Row Series | The Sad Case of Faith and Liberty Battaglia

On May 2nd, 2001, Mary Jean Pearle dropped her two daughters, Faith 6, and Liberty 9, off for their weekly visit with their father, even though they didn’t want to go, Wednesday was his visitation night as stated in their divorce decree. Their father, John Battaglia, was a man who had a long list of domestic abuse charges on his record and probably some jail time was looming over him, several days following this visit.

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Sources:

No Daddy Don't!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge by Irene Pence

https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B009L82WRG&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_C1097Z555RCYX1J3B5SM&tag=crimeatoriu0e-20

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2018/02/02/john-battaglia-taunts-ex-wife-before-being-executed-for-killing-their-girls-while-she-listened-in-horror/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-execution/texas-executes-man-for-murdering-daughters-in-killings-wife-heard-on-phone-idUSKBN1FL4TL

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201997185/john-david-battaglia

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68499998/mary-faith-battaglia

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68500063/liberty-mae-battaglia

https://web.archive.org/web/20180704034551/http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/us-world-news/dallas-man-who-killed-daughters-set-to-die-thursday

https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/battaglia-john-david.htm

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/father-executed-for-killing-daughters-while-mother-listened/news-story/0fd8e8503cff2dc989ac766e03008a77

https://www.newsweek.com/killer-john-battaglia-asked-am-i-dead-and-taunted-ex-wife-during-execution-797942

https://www.familyplace.org/resource/survivor-stories/inside_tfp/2020/04/07/program-highlight-faith-liberty's-place

https://www.familyplace.org/home

JDVDBattaglia.us.com

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- Madeline