Fatal Family Feud, Vanessa McMorick and Christina Barkley and Ashley Berger

Vanessa McMorick
In season two of Fear Thy Neighbor, Fatal Family Feud, shows the story of neighbors  Vanessa McMorick, Christina Barkley,   and Ashley Berger.

The show is described as in Euclid, Ohio, a teenage boy develops a crush on the girl next door but gets rebuffed, setting the stage for murder. Berger was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter and four counts of aggravated assault. Ashley claimed to have been threatened, but the victim denied this and it was not listed in any of the police reports.

According to the state,  On April 27, 2005, Appellant Ashley Berger, who was pregnant at the time, stabbed Vanessa McMorick and her sister Christina Barkley, causing McMorick's death and Barkleyinjury, while the two victims attacked Berger on the porch of her own home after McMorick threatened to "stomp or kick" Berger's unborn child from her body. This occurred while other members of the Barkley family attacked and beat members of Berger's fanily in Berger's own front yard during a racially motivated confrontation between neighbors initiated by Barkley's family.  

This case emanates from a hostile relationship which existed between neighbors, viz., the Christina Barkley family and the Ashley Berger family. On April 27, 2005, Berger stabbed Barkley and her sister Vanessa McMorick during a racially motivated attack by the Barkley family upon the Berger family on the Berger residential property. For nine months prior to this event, members of Barkley's family verbally, physically and at times sexually harassed members of Berger's family including her young son. This harassment, on numerous occasions, took the form of verbal threats made by McMorick to "stomp or kick" Berger's unborn child from herbody and included racial slurs against Berger. At one point, Barkley actually attacked Berger and the two engaged in a physical confrontation in which neither was seriously injured.

Ashley Berger was sentenced to serve five years, she has since been released.






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