Annie Kasprzak obituary and death details were depicted in Investigation Discovery. 

The search for missing adolescent Annie Kasprzak ended in 2012 when her body was discovered in a river. 

However, the search for her killer was fraught with difficulties for the authorities.

A Time To Kill: Murder on the Jordan River on Investigation Discovery explores the circumstances of the young girl’s death and how the killer was ultimately apprehended. 

Let’s dig more into it.

What happened with Annie Kasprzak? 

After growing up in foster care and experiencing abuse, Annie Kasprzak, now 15 years old, was adopted by the Kasprzak family when she was nine. 

Annie was a first-year student at the Summit Academy in Draper, Utah, at the time of the incident.

Annie’s parents reported her missing on March 10, 2012, after they couldn’t contact her. 

The police discovered Annie’s body in the river downstream. 

According to an autopsy, she sustained many blunt force traumas, leading to multiple skull fractures. 

When Annie was found dead, the police came to know that she had been dating Darwin Christopher Bagshaw for about a year and a half. 

Their last conversation happened at about 8:30 p.m. The police began to examine Darwin as a result of this closely. 

He had blood on his shoes when they first questioned him after discovering the dead, but he insisted that it was from Annie’s recent bloody nose two weeks prior. 

A friend first supported the claim but admitted to Darwin asking him to lie to the police.

The friend stated that Darwin had mentioned to him that he had been by the Jordan River the night Annie went missing but had asked not to talk about it. 

Data from Darwin’s phone appeared to confirm his position that evening.

When he spoke to Annie’s mother, he was close to the crime scene. 

In Colorado, where he resided with his parents at the time, Darwin was detained in October 2014.

The police discovered a scrap of paper in his garbage that included a chronology of events and a reference to Annie’s jacket from that evening. 

The prosecution assumed Darwin was upset because Annie allegedly lied to other people about being pregnant with his child, forcing them to flee.

They believed that he repeatedly beat her with a shovel close to the river before dumping her body.

Darwin had also admitted to the murder of a young person who was being held in the facility. 

What was Darwin Christopher Bagshaw accused of? Where is he now? 

For killing Annie, Darwin entered a plea of guilty to first-degree felony murder.

He was given a 15-year to life term for the crime when he was 18 years old. 

‘I’m terribly sorry for everything that happened; Darwin apologized in court. I wish to express my regrets to Annie’s family.’

He was on narcotics when he lost it after finding out about the pregnancy, the defense claimed in an earlier attempt to get a lighter sentence. 

According to prison records, Darwin is still detained at the Central Utah Correctional Facility in the Sanpete County town of Gunnison.

In October 2034, he will be eligible for parole.

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