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Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs and Jesse Joseph Tafero, the father of the younger of her two children, were tried separately, convicted, and sentenced to death by the same judge for the 1976 murders of two law enforcement officers at a rest stop off of Interstate 95 in Broward County, Florida.
Date of murders: February 20, 1976. Date of arrest: Same day. Date of birth: 1947. Victims profile: Phillip Black (Florida highway patrolman) and Donald Irwin (visiting Canadian constable friend) Method of murder: Shooting. Location: Broward County, Florida, USA. Status: Sentenced to death in 1976. Commuted to life in prison in 1981.
Jul 4, 1999 · When Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs went to prison for murder in 1976, her son was 9. Her daughter, 10 months old, was still nursing. When she was freed in 1992, her son was married with a child of his own and her daughter was a 16-year-old stranger.
On the morning of February 20, 1976, Black and Irwin approached a car parked at a rest stop for a routine check. Tafero, his wife Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs, their two children (ages 9 years and 10 months) and Walter Rhodes were found asleep inside. Tafero had previously been in prison and was on probation.
Feb 27, 2018 · In 1976, Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was sentenced to death at the age of 28, along with her partner Jesse Tafero, for the murder of two police officers in Florida. Their conviction primarily relied on the testimony of Tafero’s friend, Walter Rhodes, who pled guilty to the crime in exchange for a reduced charge of second-degree murder, and was ...
Oct 9, 2020 · Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was sentenced to death for a crime she did not commit. She spent 17 years in prison and was exonerated in 1992 but this reprieve came too late for her husband who was executed in 1990 by a faulty electric chair. He took 13 minutes to die.
Oct 10, 1992 · After nearly 17 years in prison, including more than four years on death row, Sonia Jacobs won her freedom on Friday by pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the 1976 shooting deaths of two...
