A MURDERER who killed his two babies and left their tiny bodies in a storage unit has had a tax-payer funded sex change. Jason Michael Hann, who now goes by the name Jessica Hann, will be transferred to a female prison. Hann was previously sentenced to death and admitted to Riverside County in February in […]
A MURDERER who killed his two babies and left their tiny bodies in a storage unit has had a tax-payer funded sex change.
Jason Michael Hann, who now goes by the name Jessica Hann, will be transferred to a female prison.
Hann was previously sentenced to death and admitted to Riverside County in February in 2014 for the separate murders of his infant son and toddler daughter two decades ago.
After killing his baby son and his toddler daughter, he travelled through the country with their bodies before they were stuffed into storage units.
In a 2014 story reporting on Hann’s death sentence, the Desert Sun reported: “Jason Michael Hann, 39, admitted to killing two of his children weeks after they were born, according to trial documents.
“The infants’ bodies were discovered 1,500 miles apart from each other in separate storage units and in advanced stages of decomposition.”
“Hann seemed emotionless as Riverside Superior Court Judge James Hawkins denied a motion from the defense to lower the death penalty to life without parole, upholding the jury’s original recommendation,” the Sun added.
The forty-six-year-old was moved to Central California Women’s Facility in February this year and is an inmate on death row.
The mother of Hann’s children, 41-year-old Krissy Lynn Werntz, was admitted to the facility in July 2014 where she is housed in the general population serving life with the possibility of parole for second-degree murder.
It is not clear what date Hann underwent the transition, but CDCR communications chief Liz Gransee told KESQ that as of February 2019, “10 patients statewide have been approved for gender-affirming surgery,” and by February 2020, Hann was transferred to the Central California Women’s Facility under the name “Jessica.”
“Senate Bill 310 allows a state prisoner or county jail inmate the right to petition a court to obtain a name or gender change,” Thornton previously told KESQ.
“SB 310 requires CDCR to use the new name of the person who obtains a name change and to list the prior name only as an alias.
CDCR updated Hann’s records and made notification to the victim on file on Feb. 14.”
