A District man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for killing his teenage daughter and dumping her body in a trash bin in Columbia Heights.
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Before sentencing 48-year-old Rodney McIntyre to the maximum term, D.C. Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz called his conduct “the product of a depraved heart in the truest sense of the legal meaning of the term.”
McIntyre pleaded guilty in July to first-degree murder while armed in the slaying of his 17-year-old daughter, Ebony Franklin.
McIntyre had been in and out of jail for most of Ebony’s life.
She reunited with McIntyre in 2008, after his release from prison, where he had been locked up for threats he made in a domestic violence case.
The day after Thanksgiving 2010, Ebony met her father near Meyer Elementary School, where McIntyre worked for an after-school program. The father and daughter had planned to go shopping for Christmas presents.
Instead, while at the school, McIntyre stabbed his daughter at least 15 times.
He then threw her body into a trash bin, and covered it with garbage. He wheeled the bin to an alley in the 1000 block of Fairmont Avenue NW. The body was discovered three days after.
Before the body was discovered, McIntyre attempted to cover his tracks, going to police stations to report that Ebony was missing, prosecutors said.
He used her cell phone to send text messages, including some to her stepfather that asked if her mother was upset that she had not come home.
Two days later, McIntyre used the cell phone to text a message to her mother: “Remember the [expletive] told on my man now yoo get her out the trash.”
After Ebony’s body was found, the medical examiner found McIntyre’s semen in her body. Police said McIntyre had sexual intercourse with his daughter on multiple occasions over the previous two years. He was arrested and charged with murder in May.
