Who is Danielle Woodard? Nikolas Cruz's sister makes moonshine and has phone sex, claims ex-prison lover
MIAMI, FLORIDA: For the past two years, Danielle Woodard, 36, has been imprisoned in a Miami detention facility while she awaits trial for allegedly intimidating an elderly woman during a carjacking which is her 17th criminal offense. A former inmate lover has now claimed that the jailbird sister who assisted Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz in evading the death penalty is a hellraiser who partakes in phone sex, moonshine, and lesbian romps while incarcerated.
The former prisoner, Lillian Menendez, spoke to Daily Mail about a months-long affair with Woodard that descended into violence and abuse claims. After being freed in April, Menendez said she had to obtain a restraining order because Woodard started calling her repeatedly with threatening messages from a payphone within the prison. Disclosing her relationship with Woodard, Menendez said: “We had many intimate times. Everyone knew we were an item but the officers, as long as they didn't catch us in the act, were ok with it. She would take massive amounts of pills. She would get fruit and ferment it and make alcohol. She still gets high in there. Danielle does whatever Danielle wants to do - even in jail.” However, Woodard's attorney Mark Lowry, refuted the allegations arguing that because of her relationship with Cruz—the shooter who killed 17 students and employees at Parkland, Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School—she is an easy target.
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In August, Woodard made news when she was granted a brief period of freedom to testify in her brother's favor and support theories that fetal brain abnormalities rendered him destined for a life of crazed crime. She testified at his sentencing hearing about how his late mother Brenda Woodard used drugs and drank excessively while pregnant with Cruz. Woodard told the court that Brenda, who passed away last year, was a "horrible" mother: “She introduced me to a life that no child should ever be introduced to. She had no regard for his life or my life.” The jury finally decided that the 24-year-old mass killer should not be put to death but instead get a life sentence in prison for the massacre in February 2018 – the same obligatory sentence that Woodard would receive under Florida law if she were found guilty of another felony. Menendez claims that she first encountered Woodard in 2020 when she was detained for cocaine possession for two weeks at the Metro West Detention Center in Miami.
Who is Danielle Woodard?
After being placed in foster care at the age of 12, Woodard made her first felony arrest for car theft just a few days after turning 13. In a terrifying premonition of her brother's atrocities, Danielle was detained in 2003 for bringing a gun into her school. She had already started living a life of crime by that point, one that would eventually become just as heinous as that of her mother, accruing arrests for elder abuse, car theft and battery with a dangerous weapon. Woodard was given an eight-year term in January 2010 for using fraudulent credit cards, possessing cocaine and attempting to kill a police officer in the second degree. She added three years to her sentence for biting three officers in 2016 as they attempted to pack her into a squad after being released early, ripping through one officer's pants. Woodard goes by the street handle Skiddlez.
Woodard, a mother of three and aspiring rapper in 2020, has been accused of stealing a 72-year-old woman's automobile and hurting a man who tried to stop her from driving off the car. If found guilty of her most recent offense, which occurred on January 6, 2020, at a parking lot in Miami Gardens, she will be sentenced to at least 15 years in prison and a mandatory life term for felonies. Woodard allegedly approached the two unidentified victims as they were donating stuff in their Honda Accord and requested a ride, according to court documents. The elderly woman was forced out of the sedan when they refused to let the homeless felon enter, and she then fled while her younger male friend clung to the door. Prosecutors claim that he jumped clear as she sped into the street and smashed into trees.