
Rachel Leigh Hutson, now 21, murdered her mother the day after Thanksgiving in 2013
A 21-year-old woman has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after she shot and killed her mother then sent a picture of the body to her father's phone.
Rachel Hutson was sentenced in Chesapeake Circuit Court on Tuesday.
She had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and use of a firearm in a felony in June.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, on the day after Thanksgiving in 2013 at around 4am, Hutson called her father and said she had shot her 58-year-old mother, Susan Lee Hutson, at the family's Indian River home.
Her father, Donald, who was out doing some Black Friday shopping, thought his daughter was joking, and hung up the phone.
He testified that he then tried to call his wife, but his daughter picked up.
Rachel sent a photo of her mother's bloody body to her father's cellphone to prove what she had done, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
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Hutson, above in court, admitted to killing her critically ill mother and then sending a picture to her father
'That's when I realized this is probably real,' Donald testified in court.
Hutson, who was 19 when she committed the murder, had reportedly been a caregiver for her seriously ill mother since she was nine.
Her mother is said to have had congestive heart failure, kidney failure and diabetes.
Hutson claimed in court that she at first had planned to kill herself but decided it would be too hard on her mother and she didn't want her finding her body.
She testified that when she lifted the shotgun in her mother's direction, her mother didn't think she was serious, called her crazy, and told her she would be in trouble when her father got home, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
She said killing her mother was more of an afterthought than a pre-planned action.
'I felt like I was just nothing, and nobody really needed us,' she said in court.

The murder happened in the family's home (above) in Indian River, Virginia, while Hutson's father was shopping
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ShareDonald Hutson testified that on the early morning of the killing he had taken away his daughter's computer privileges because he was tired of her messy room and bad attitude.
Once he saw the picture of his wife's body, his daughter threatened to commit suicide, so he put off calling 911 for 90 minutes.
His plan was to draw his daughter outside, and then tackle her and tie her up.
But she came out of the house calmly, without a fight. He called police and had her arrested.
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