Woman sentenced for killing boyfriend after finding tampons
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Background: News footage from Julie Bush’s sentencing in Las Vegas, Nevada (KLAS). Inset: A 2017 mugshot of the victim, Richard “Rick” Penardo (Clark County Detention Center).

A Nevada woman who fatally ran over her boyfriend after finding tampons in his garbage has been sentenced to prison.

In March, Julie Bush, aged 31, admitted to voluntary manslaughter and DUI causing death, after initially being charged with open murder and several other offenses related to the death of 51-year-old Richard “Rick” Penardo. According to court documents viewed by local CBS station KLAS, Bush deliberately rammed her car into Penardo in May 2024, following the discovery of another woman’s tampons in his home’s trash.

Prosecutors said that the entire violent act was caught on a Ring camera, and that the tampons most likely belonged to Penardo’s roommate.

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KLAS was in the courtroom for Bush’s sentencing, where she and the victim’s family spoke to the court before the sentence was handed down.

In a tearful address, Bush expressed her remorse to Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny, stating, “I love him very much,” and added, “I’m sorry that he passed away and I wish I could change it, but I can’t, and I know there’s not a sentence in the world that’s going to make anybody satisfied.”

Bush’s public defender also told the court that her appearance on police body camera footage proved that she was remorseful for her actions.

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