Ga. man pleads guilty to helping teenage son cover up fiancée’s murder

COLUMBUS, Ga. — A Georgia man is heading to prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in his fiancée’s bizarre 2020 death.

Joshuah Fredette, 47, pleaded guilty to charges of voluntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence in Muscogee County, according to WTVM-TV.

In September 2020, Emily McDaniel, 37, was found dead in a lawn chair from multiple gunshot and stab wounds.

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Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan told WTVM-TV that McDaniel had been stabbed more than a dozen times at her home in Columbus, Ga.

Fredette’s son, then-14-year-old Hagan Fredette, admitted to police that he shot McDaniel in the head.

The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports that investigators said Hagan Fredette called his dad after shooting McDaniel and said she was still breathing. They say Joshuah Fredette told his son to finish killing her to leave no witnesses.

That’s when he began stabbing her, according to WTVM-TV.

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Officials also confirmed to WTVM-TV that Joshuah Fredette was engaged to McDaniel at the time of her death.

After her death, both Joshuah and Hagan Fredette were charged with murder.

The younger Fredette is set to stand trial in March.

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