Tafero and Jacobs were convicted of capital murder and were sentenced to death while Rhodes was sentenced to three life sentences . He was released in 1994 following parole for good behavior . The children were placed in the care of Sunny Jacobs ' parents until their deaths in a 1982 plane crash . The children were then separated and Sunny 's younger child , Christina , was placed into foster care with a friend of Jacobs . Sunny 's older child , Eric , who was in his mid-teens , first resided with Sonia 's brother Alan , then lived on his own , struggling to survive by working at a pizza restaurant and various odd jobs
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