{"id":41355,"date":"2025-05-27T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/?p=41355"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:15:25","slug":"ny-dad-killed-his-pregnant-wife-and-stabbed-his-2-young-daughters-because-he-wanted-a-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/ny-dad-killed-his-pregnant-wife-and-stabbed-his-2-young-daughters-because-he-wanted-a-son\/","title":{"rendered":"NY dad killed his pregnant wife and stabbed his 2 young daughters because he wanted a son"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An upstate New York dad fatally stabbed his pregnant wife and then tried to kill his two young daughters \u2014 just because he was angry he wasn\u2019t going to have a son, according to the slain woman\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

Drew Garnier, 33, admitted to repeatedly stabbing his five-months-pregnant wife, Samantha Garnier, 29, and their children, Izzie, 6, and Adelina, 9, in the bloodbath at the family\u2019s home in Masonville on Sept. 4 last year, according to the Delaware County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

His wife and their unborn child both died in the attack, which was just weeks before the mom was to turn 30. The young girls are recovering from \u201csignificant injuries,\u201d the DA said.<\/p>\n

Garnier killed in anger that his wife was again pregnant with a girl, Samantha\u2019s grieving father, Gregory Vernagallo, said in a victim impact statement at sentencing.<\/p>\n

Garnier pleaded guilty last month to first-degree manslaughter and two counts of first-degree assault \u2014 both class B violent felonies.<\/p>\n

He was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison \u2014 with 15 years of post-release supervision \u2014 as part of the plea deal aimed at protecting the surviving daughters from the trauma of a trial.<\/p>\n

We were able to secure this conviction without forcing two young children to testify about the horrific things they witnessed,\u201d District Attorney Shawn Smith said of the sentence being lighter than he wanted.<\/p>\n

The killer dad has also been forbidden from seeing his daughters until 2056 \u2014 the maximum allowed \u2014 which only the girls can overrule if they eventually want contact.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou took a life and injured your children. They had a right to expect protection from you,\u201d Judge John Hubbard told the dad of the decades-long no-contact order.<\/p>\n

Samantha Garnier was due to give birth in February.<\/p>\n

Her daughters are still recovering from their injuries \u2014 and have been adopted by their maternal grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An upstate New York dad fatally stabbed his pregnant wife and then tried to kill his two young daughters \u2014 just because he was angry he wasn\u2019t going to have a son, according to the slain woman\u2019s father. Drew Garnier, 33, admitted to repeatedly stabbing his five-months-pregnant wife, Samantha Garnier, 29, and their children, Izzie,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[251,572,89],"class_list":["post-41355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wls-news","tag-251","tag-crime","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/dad.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41357,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41355\/revisions\/41357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worldlatinstar.com\/wls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}