Jill Blackstone, 59, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the March 2015 death of 49-year-old Wendy Blackstone, who Jill cared for since Wendy had disabilities.
television producer charged with killing her sisterJill Blackstone, 59, was immediately sentenced to eight years in state prison following her plea to one felony count of voluntary manslaughter involving the March 2015 death of 49-year-old Wendy Blackstone in Studio City, along with three felony counts of animal cruelty involving three dogs — two of whom died.
Police contended that Jill Blackstone — who has worked on such programs as “The Jerry Springer Show,” “Divorce Court,” “The Tony Danza Show” and “Family Court with Judge Penny” — set the garage on fire, killing her sister and two of the dogs, and staged it as an accident. Davis noted earlier that prosecutors had waited for three years to file the case, and that biological and toxicological evidence that had been collected and analyzed was destroyed before the prosecution filed the case.
During a roughly five-day hearing in 2019 in which Blackstone was ordered to stand trial on a murder charge, a Los Angeles police detective testified that a note allegedly written by Blackstone was found near her dead sister’s hand.
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