The parents of accused murderder Courtney Clenney were arrested on Jan. 30 in Austin, Texas, and are facing charges related to their daughter’s case after investigators allege that they conspired to gain access to a computer that belonged to her boyfriend she allegedly stabbed to death in 2022.
Clenney, an OnlyFans and Instagram model with millions of followers, admitted to fatally stabbing her partner, Christian Obumseli, inside their luxury Miami apartment on April 3, 2022. Defense attorneys claim that she took his life in self-defense, painting Obumseli as a possessive and violent boyfriend.
Miami-Dade Police detectives say they have uncovered incriminating text messages involving her parents, Deborah Clenney, 57, and Kim Clenney, 60.
These messages reveal a conspiracy in a group chat with their daughter’s attorneys, Frank Prieto and Sabrina Puglisi, to unlawfully retrieve Obumseli’s laptop from the apartment, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office contends.
Courtney Clenney, who is jailed while awaiting trial on second-degree murder charges, is implicated in the same conspiracy as her parents. Miami-Dade Police say there is probable cause to charge her with the same third-degree felony computer offense, but records do not show she has been charged yet, the Miami Herald reports.
“The new charges support our position from day one: This was not a justified killing,” Obumseli family attorney Larry Handfield told Local 10 News.
“The tampering with evidence and obstruction supports our position this was not self-defense; this was someone not in self-control,” he continued. “We are grateful for the SAO for the new charges.”
Group Texts Show Courtney Clenney’s Parents’ Involvement in Allegedly Plot
According to an arrest warrant, the Clenneys obtained Obumseli’s computer from Courtney Clenney’s Miami apartment sometime between the time she killed Obumseli in April 2022 and her arrest in Hawaii in August of…
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