Huntington Dad Gets Life With No Parole For Killing His 3-month-old Daughter, Then Hiding Her Body
A Cabell County jury convicted Shannon Patrick Overstreet of murdering his 3-month-old daughter and hiding her body. On Monday, a judge gave him the only sentence the law allows: life in prison, no parole.
Case at a glance
- Shannon Patrick Overstreet — Father convicted in his infant daughter's death, sentenced
- Angel Nichole Overstreet — 3-month-old victim, victim
- David D. Amsbary — Cabell County Circuit Court Judge, official
Next: The coverage provided does not list any further hearing, appeal filing, or additional proceeding. Life without parole is a final sentence under West Virginia law for these convictions, and nothing in the available reporting indicates an appeal has been filed or is scheduled to be heard.
A baby's death in 2021, a verdict five years later
Angel Nichole Overstreet was three months old when she died in 2021, according to court records cited by the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Her father, Shannon Patrick Overstreet, 43, of Huntington, was accused of killing her and then hiding her body instead of reporting her death.
The case took nearly five years to reach a jury. On Sept. 25, 2026, a Cabell County jury convicted Overstreet of murder, death of a child by a parent or custodian, and concealment of a deceased human body in connection with Angel's death, the Gazette-Mail reported.
The coverage provided here does not spell out how investigators built the case, when Overstreet was arrested, or exactly how Angel's death and the concealment of her body came to light. Those details are not part of the record available for this story, and we aren't filling them in with guesses.
Who's at the center of this case
Shannon Patrick Overstreet, 43, is Angel's father and the man convicted and sentenced in her death. Angel Nichole Overstreet was his daughter, three months old when she died in 2021.
Cabell County Circuit Court Judge David D. Amsbary presided over the case and handed down Monday's sentence. Steve Bragg, identified in Herald-Dispatch coverage as the prosecuting attorney, is pictured reviewing documents at the sentencing hearing.
The charges and what the jury found
The jury convicted Overstreet on three separate counts. Murder is the charge for unlawfully causing Angel's death. Death of a child by a parent or custodian is a distinct West Virginia charge that applies specifically because Overstreet was Angel's caregiver when she died — it exists to punish killings committed by the person responsible for a child's safety. Concealment of a deceased human body is its own crime, separate from the killing itself, for hiding or failing to report a death.
Charging and convicting on all three means the jury found not just that Overstreet caused his daughter's death, but that he was her custodian when it happened, and that he took a further, separate step afterward to hide what happened to her body. The Gazette-Mail's report on the conviction uses the term "murder" for the homicide count; that is the term we use here as well.
The sentencing hearing in Huntington
Overstreet was sentenced Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, in Cabell County Circuit Court. Judge David D. Amsbary handed down life in prison with no possibility of parole — the mandatory sentence under the convictions returned by the jury, leaving the judge no discretion to impose anything less.
According to the Gazette-Mail's account of the hearing, Overstreet looked up at Judge Amsbary as the sentence was read. No other detail of his demeanor or any statement he may have made in court is included in the coverage provided.
What the coverage does and doesn't include
Neither source provided for this story contains a verbatim statement from prosecutors, defense counsel, Overstreet, or Angel's family. The Herald-Dispatch photo caption identifies Steve Bragg as the prosecuting attorney reviewing documents during the hearing, but he is not quoted.
That means this story cannot tell you, in anyone's own words, what the prosecution argued in closing, what the defense's position was at trial, or how Angel's relatives reacted to the verdict or the sentence. If and when those statements surface in further reporting, they belong in an update to this story — not invented here.
What happens next
The coverage provided does not list any further hearing, appeal filing, or additional proceeding. Life without parole is a final sentence under West Virginia law for these convictions, and nothing in the available reporting indicates an appeal has been filed or is scheduled to be heard.
How this plays in court
To win all three counts, prosecutors had to prove more than that Angel died in her father's care. They had to establish that Overstreet caused her death, that he was acting as her parent or custodian at the time — triggering the enhanced child-death charge — and, separately, that he took deliberate steps afterward to conceal her body rather than report what happened. Three convictions on three distinct legal theories is a heavy lift, and it tells you the jury didn't see this as one blurred act but as a killing followed by a cover-up.
A defense in a case like this typically attacks causation and intent on the murder count — arguing the death wasn't intentional, or wasn't caused by the father at all — while separately contesting whether the concealment was knowing and deliberate rather than panicked or incidental. Splitting those arguments is hard, because a jury that doesn't believe the concealment story usually stops believing the causation story too.
The concealment charge matters more than it might look at first glance. Prosecutors don't need it to prove the killing — they add it because hiding a body is powerful circumstantial evidence of guilt. A jury weighing whether a death was accidental or intentional will naturally ask why an innocent parent would hide what happened rather than call for help.
Mandatory sentencing schemes like West Virginia's life-without-parole provision for these convictions remove the judge's discretion once the jury returns a guilty verdict. That's why Judge Amsbary's sentencing hearing wasn't really a decision point — the jury's Sept. 25 verdict had already determined the outcome. The real fight in this case happened at trial, not at sentencing.
- Charleston Gazette-Mail: Huntington Dad Gets Life With No Parole For Killing His 3-month-old Daughter, Then Hiding Her Body
- herald-dispatch.com: 20261109_hd_overstreet