The box was less than 3 feet long (0.91 meters), less than 1 foot (0.3 meter) wide and a foot deep. Ame stood about 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall and weighed nearly 60 pounds (27 kilograms).

Members of a Phoenix family awoke nearly six years ago to a disturbing discovery in their home: A 10-year-old girl who lived there was dead inside a padlocked plastic storage box.

Defense wants to convince jury that it was Allen's mother who taught her that it was OK to lock Ame Deal in a box. But the mother said she never did.

During Allen’s two-week trial, prosecutors said she assisted as her husband, John Allen, locked Ame inside the 32-inch-long plastic box in which the girl would eventually die in Phoenix in July ...

Ame Deal's short and tragic life ended on July 11, 2011, when temperatures in Phoenix were in the triple digits. After stealing a frozen treat on a hot summer day, the child was forced into ...

PHOENIX --An Arizona woman was convicted of first-degree murder Monday in the death of her 10-year-old cousin who was locked in a small plastic storage box in triple-digit heat.Sammantha Allen, 28 ...

New Round of Appeals Proceedings In July 2011, Ame was living with more than a dozen people in a rental home on West Romley Road in Phoenix. She was abandoned by her mother, Shirley Deal, to live ...

Cops said Ame was routinely put in the locked box, which was less than 3 feet long, 14 inches wide and about a foot deep, as punishment. Her final offense before her death was deciding to take a ...

That box was padlocked shut and Ame suffocated inside of it in the Phoenix home, authorities say. "The pictures of the victim stayed in our minds," said juror Ann Ospeth.