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Joshua Stapleton, 39, and his wife Brittani, 31, document their Gulf Coast travels across social media, posting what on the surface seems like a perfect life – but it’s far from the truth.
Joshua Stapleton, 39, and his wife Brittani, 31, document their Gulf Coast travels across social media[/caption]
The pair have amassed over one million likes across TikTok and Instagram[/caption]
Stapleton received a 20-year sentence[/caption]
Wife Brittani has made it clear she stands with her husband in a TikTok video[/caption]
The pair have amassed over one million likes across TikTok and Instagram with more than 81,000 followers, sharing workout videos, meals and vacations.
But their popularity has certainly diminished since investigators made the heinous discovery that husband Stapleton had downloaded child abuse images, Fox 5 News reports.
Over four years since authorities initially launched their investigation, Stapleton received a 20-year sentence after pleading guilty to 20 counts of sexual exploitation of children.
Five years are to be served in custody and the remaining 15 on probation.
But wife Brittani has made it clear she stands with her husband and posted a lengthy TikTok video addressing frequently asked questions on the harrowing situation.
She started the video by threatening legal action against anything spreading what she called “false” statements being spread about her husband that are “damaging” to his reputation.
Brittani said she knew about the charges against her husband, who wed in 2023, as they were friends before they started dating.
She said: “When the charges occurred, we were friends. […] I have a really good judge of character and I knew something was up. I knew that was not Josh.
“We had already been on several trips together beforehand. I’d spent pretty close time with this guy and I was like, hmm, something’s wrong here.
“Josh was absolutely upfront with me about everything in the charges. There were no secrets.”
Stapleton’s arrest followed an investigation launched by the Cartersville Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division, supported by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Homeland Security.
The investigation was launched based on a tip submitted through the Internet Crimes Against Children program.
It was during this probe the 39-year-old was exposed for downloading numerous child abuse images between 2018 and 2020.
Addressing another question from concerned social media users, Brittany defended that the couple’s friends with children are aware of the charges against Stapleton.
She said: “ We’ve always been absolutely upfront with everyone. And guess what?
“A lot of these people have our backs because they have personally witnessed Josh around their children and know that there’s no issue.”
Stapleton was originally charged with 15 counts of child pornography possession, but was later indicted on a harrowing 40 counts of sexual exploitation of children.
He ultimately accepted a non-negotiable plea deal and pleaded guilty to 20 counts, while the remaining 20 charges were dropped.
Brittani shockingly rejected the claim that child images were on his “work laptop,” slamming them as “false”.
She ranted: “ Josh could not possibly have that on his work laptop because if you have ever worked for a corporation or any big company or anything along those lines, you know how secure those computers are.”
Brittani also pushed back against accusations that they were merely showing “fake lives” across their social media platforms, and said they are “still happy” as a couple despite the vile charges.
She rambles: “ We are still happy. He and I have no issues. He has been fully transparent and honest with me.
“Therefore, I know everything. I have been to court. I know everything. I can assure you that nothing about us was fake.”
Stapleton will have to abide by multiple “sex offender” conditions upon his release.
Bartow County authorities haven’t released additional information about the plea proceedings.
Stapleton is currently being held in the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office Jail.
Stapleton (R) was originally charged with 15 counts of child pornography possession, but was later indicted on a harrowing 40 counts of sexual exploitation of children[/caption]
Stapleton (R) ultimately accepted a non-negotiable plea deal and pleaded guilty to 20 counts, while the remaining 20 charges were dropped[/caption]
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JAPAN has executed the man who brutally murdered eight women and one man – aged between 15 and 26 – after luring them to his flat.
Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the “Twitter killer”, raped, strangled and dismembered his victims – in a chilling case that shook one of the world’s safest countries.
Takahiro Shiraishi was recently executed for murdering nine people in 2017[/caption]
The ‘Twitter killer’ in a 2020 court sketch when he was sentenced to death[/caption]
Japan’s Minister of Justice Keisuke Suzuki announced on Friday that Shiraishi had been executed[/caption]
Shiraishi, who committed the crimes in 2017, was executed by hanging – marking Japan’s first execution since 2022.
Then 27, the serial killer lured young women to his home, where he raped them before murdering them.
Three of the eight women were schoolgirls.
He also killed the boyfriend of one of the women to silence him.
Authorities made the disturbing discovery in October 2017 while investigating the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman last seen walking with Shiraishi.
Cops found the victims’ body parts in Shiraishi’s flat in the Japanese city of Zama, near Tokyo.
One resident told The Japan Times in 2017: “I thought it smelled like sewage. It was something I never smelled before.”
Another neighbour said they noticed a “nasty smell” coming from the flat.
Nine dismembered bodies were found in three coolers and five large storage boxes inside the flat – dubbed the “house of horrors” by the media.
The serial killer had discarded parts of his victims in the bin, which was collected with the recycled garbage.
It later emerged that he had searched online for how to mutilate bodies before buying a saw and a meat cleaver.
Shiraishi pleaded guilty to murdering nine victims in October 2020.
The killer revealed he met them on the social media platform Twitter, now known as X.
He told the victims he could help them die, even claiming in some cases he would kill himself alongside them.
Shiraishi being taken to the prosecutor’s office in November 2017[/caption]
His Twitter profile wrote: “I want to help people who are really in pain. Please DM [direct message] me anytime.”
Prosecutors demanded the death penalty for Shiraishi, while his lawyers argued for a prison sentence, claiming the victims had consented to their deaths and that he should be charged with “murder with consent”.
They also called for his mental state to be assessed.
But Shiraishi later disputed his own defence team’s version of events, revealing he killed without the victims’ consent.
435 people showed up to watch the 2020 verdict sentencing him to death – despite the court having only 16 public seats – Japan’s public broadcaster NHK reported.
As a result of the murders, Twitter changed its rules to state users should not “promote or encourage suicide or self-harm”.
Shiraishi was hanged at the Tokyo Detention House in secrecy.
Japan’s Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki, who ordered Shiraishi’s execution, announced the news on Friday.
He said Shiraishi acted “for the genuinely selfish reason of satisfying his own sexual and financial desires” and that the case “caused great shock and anxiety to society”, according to AFP.
Japan currently has 105 people on death row, Suzuki added.
The country has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.
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JAPAN’S justice system allows the death penalty for serious crimes like murder, typically carried out by hanging.
The nation’s death penalty dates back to the Meiji era – with the current legal framework established under the Penal Code of 1907.
Executions are rare and usually follow a lengthy appeals process.
The justice minister must sign the execution order.
Inmates are often told just hours before, and the executions are carried out in total secrecy.
Between January 2000 and June 2025, 99 inmates have been executed in Japan.
Who was executed before Takahiro Shiraishi?
July 2022: Tomohiro Kato, 39, was executed for a rampage in a Tokyo shopping district in 2018, where he killed seven people in a car crash and stabbing spree.
December 2021: Yasutaka Fujishiro, 65, was executed for killing seven relatives in 2004.
December 2021: Tomoaki Takanezawa, 54, and Mitsunori Onogawa, 44, were executed for the 2003 murders of two employees at separate pachinko parlours.
August 2019: Koichi Shoji, 64, was executed for multiple rape-murders in Kanagawa Prefecture in 2001.
August 2019: Yasunori Suzuki, 50, was executed for murdering three women – and raping one of them – in Fukuoka Prefecture between 2004 and 2005.
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