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Springfield, Mo. — A Missouri woman has been sentenced to two life terms in prison for killing a pregnant Arkansas woman and trying to pass off the dead woman’s fetus as her own stillborn baby.

Amber Waterman, 44, of Pineville, Missouri, is not eligible for parole under the sentence ordered Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. She pleaded guilty in July to kidnapping resulting in death and causing the death of a child in utero.

In her plea, Waterman admitted that she used a false name to contact Ashley Bush of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, on Facebook. Bush, 33, was about 31 weeks pregnant at the time.

Federal prosecutors said Waterman and Bush agreed to meet at an Arkansas convenience store on Oct. 31, 2022. Waterman said she would help Bush get a job, but instead she drove Bush to her own home in Pineville.

Hours later, first responders rushed to a store in Pineville after getting a report that a baby was not breathing. The baby was pronounced dead.

Waterman at first claimed she had given birth to the baby in a truck while on the way to the hospital. In her plea, she admitted the baby was Bush’s.

An autopsy indicated that Bush, who was also the mother of three other children, died as a result of penetrating trauma of the torso. The baby, Valkyrie Willis, died in utero, prosecutors said.

Waterman’s husband, Jamie Waterman, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of being an accessory after the fact to the kidnapping resulting in death.

Charging documents say he helped wrap Bush’s body in a tarp, burn it and then move the remains to another location.

He could get up to 15 years in federal prison without parole, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

At Amber Waterman’s sentencing, the judge said he couldn’t impose a sentence that would be sufficient in this case, saying Amber Waterman’s crime was a “new level of graphic,” CBS Springfield affiliate KOLR-TV reports.

Prosecutors also spoke during the proceedings and said the pain caused by Amber Waterman would span generations, while her defense attorneys declined to speak, saying they preferred not to due a case pending against her in Arkansas.

According to KLOR, one Bush family member said during the sentencing hearing that she prayed “suffering comes back tenfold” to Amber Waterman, and another said she is the “face of Satan” and “has a black soul.”



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Founded by Roz Keith in 2015, the nonprofit “Stand with Trans” is hosting a month of programming for Trans Empowerment Month, including support groups, educational panels, and workshops. With LGBTQ+ rights under threat in many states, the organization aims to provide critical support for trans and non-binary individuals and their families.

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Video shows Seattle police pull injured man from tracks just seconds ahead of oncoming train

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Dramatic video shows police in Seattle talking a man off a ledge over the city’s train tracks — then rescuing him from an oncoming train. 

The 57-year-old man, who has not been identified, was “experiencing (a) mental health crisis” and sitting on a ledge high above train tracks near Seattle’s 2nd Avenue Exit and East Jackson Street at around 9:15 p.m. on Oct. 7, the Seattle Police Department said on social media. Dispatchers requested that inbound trains to the site be stopped as patrol officers responded to the scene. 

“I want to help you, and I need you to hear me when I say that,” a patrol officer can be heard telling the man in bodycam video shared by the department.

Video shows the man then slipped from the platform, falling about 25 feet to land in rocks beside the train tracks — into the path of a freight train that had already been en route when the dispatcher request came through. The man “suffered serious injuries and was unable to move,” police said. 

Multiple police officers on the lower platform ran across the tracks to rescue the man. One officer reached his side just before the train raced through, pulling him away from the tracks with just seconds to spare.

The man sustained multiple fractures, the department said. He was treated by the Seattle Fire Department and transported to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. 



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Treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are critical for patients fighting breast cancer, now new research is looking at how one mind-body therapy could help. CBS News’ Jarred Hill has more.

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