24 February 2014 :

Riverside County Judge James S. Hawkins sentenced Jason Hann, 39, White, to death for the murder of his 2-month-old daughter, Montana, in 2001. The sinfant's mother, Krissy Werntz, 34, also is charged in the slaying of the girl but has not yet been tried. A Riverside County jury recommended a death sentence on December 19, 2013. The crime wasn't a first for the cold-hearted couple, authorities said. They also had an infant son who suffered nearly the exact same fate and was found in a different storage unit several states away. The crimes came to light in February 2002 when the decomposed remains of a baby were found in a storage unit in Arkansas after Hann and Werntz failed to pay the bill, prosecutors said. The unit's contents were sold, and the purchaser made the shocking discovery while cleaning out the plastic container. Hann and Werntz were arrested in April 2002 at a motel in Maine. Prosecutors said at trial that Hann viciously beat Montana, inflicting fatal skull fractures. Hann's defense attorney reportedly told jurors that her client suffered from bipolar disorder and that his emotions "came to a peak" with the infant's "continual crying." After the couple was taken into custody, authorities found they had a surviving child, a baby boy about a month old, with life-threatening injuries consistent with child abuse, including a dozen rib fractures and retinal hemorrhages. That baby survived and has since been adopted. During questioning by police, Hann told them Montana died in California in 2001. The day after the arrests, police found the remains of another of the couple's children in a storage unit in Arizona. That baby, a boy less than 2 months old, had been killed in July 1999 in Vermont, prosecutors said. His remains were kept in a plastic container by the couple for more than a year before Hann and Werntz rented the Arizona storage unit in December 2000. Hann admitted to killing two of his children weeks after they were born, according to trial documents. In February 2006, Hann entered a "no contest" plea in Vermont and was convicted of 2nd-degree murder for that baby's murder and sentenced to 27 to 30 years in prison. Hann’s girlfriend Krissy Lynn Werntz, is scheduled to stand trial on March 17.