Man takes plea in 1992 stabbing death of his girlfriend, found in bathtub with baby in York

Daniel Jacobs, 47, of York. (Photo: Submitted)

The discovery was gruesome.

On Feb. 16, 1992, York City police found the bodies of Tammy Lee Mock, 18, and her 7-month-old daughter, Holly, in the bathtub of their apartment on West King Street near South Richland Avenue.  

Mock had been stabbed and cut more than 200 times. Both of them, police said, were covered in bleach.

Daniel Jacobs, Mock’s boyfriend, was later found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to death for the killing of his girlfriend and ordered to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of his daughter.

But in 2001,