LaBarre said to have tried to manipulate police interviews

Jumping from subject to subject, constant calls to the Epping Police Department and bizarre letters were just “typical Sheila LaBarre,” according to Epping police officers.
Four officers have now testified that her behavior around the time of Kenneth Countie’s murder in March 2006 was no different from usual.
LaBarre had been a regular correspondent with the police [...]

LaBarre Jury Shown Cutting Tools Found On Property

New details were released Wednesday about how Sheila LaBarre may have disposed of the bodies of Michael Deloge and Kenneth Countie.
The jury in LaBarre’s insanity trial was shown various items, including pruning shears, bullet casings and a stick.
Assistant Attorney General Jane Young asked Epping Police Lt. Mike Wallace to describe some of the items found [...]

Defense Asks Why Epping Police Did Not Intervene

Defense attorneys pressed an Epping police officer yesterday to admit his department did not intervene in the relationship between Kenneth Countie and Sheila LaBarre, despite LaBarre’s lengthy history of domestic violence.
LaBarre, 49, has admitted to murdering Countie and another boyfriend, Michael Deloge, but is pleading insanity.
Yesterday, Epping police Lt. Michael Wallace said he was well [...]

Victim’s Birth Record Found in LaBarre Home

Little is known about the circumstances surrounding Michael Deloge’s murder at the hands of Sheila LaBarre in 2005, but today the prosecution presented one of the few pieces of evidence they do have.
Prosecuting attorney Jane Young held up a mangled birth certificate in the name of Michael Deloge recovered from LaBarre’s septic tank during the [...]

Chief Dodge On the Stand: LaBarre did not seem insane in past encounters

Epping Police Chief Gregory Dodge testified today he never questioned Sheila LaBarre’s mental state or felt she met the criteria for involuntary commitment for a psychiatric evaluation during the time he knew her.
On Friday, two other Epping police officers provided similar testimony.
LaBarre moved to Epping in 1987, and lived there until her arrest in April [...]

The sexual education of actress Sarah Kennedy

Sarah Kennedy is living two lives. Currently you can see her on stage at the Players’ Ring performing as Maggie Leland in the premier of “Roadside America” a new play by playwright (and Seacoast Media Group reporter) Susan Morse.
Acting is a passion.
By day Kennedy is down in Beverly, Mass., performing as director of education for [...]

Iraq War vet urges support for returning troops

John Worrel, a veteran of the Iraq War and recipient of the Purple Heart, spoke at the main Memorial Day ceremony downtown at the Daughters of the American Revolution Park.
“War is not glorious,” he told his audience yesterday. “It is a tough thing to do, but a job that still needs to be done.”
He urged [...]

LaBarre videos show heated exchanges

Videotaped interviews of admitted killer Sheila LaBarre showed investigators pushing her to explain a human bone found in a burning pile of trash on her Epping property.
At one point, a police officer raised his voice in the March 2006 recording, became confrontational and accused LaBarre of lying and harming Kenneth Countie, one of the men [...]

Jurors see flirtatious LaBarre on videotape

As Sheila LaBarre provided graphic details of her first sexual encounter with Kenneth Countie to police in March 2006, she asked if the interview was going to be played in court, which it was on Wednesday.
“I would be so embarrassed if I had to be in court and talk about that,” LaBarre told Epping Police [...]

Jurors see more police interrogation of Labarre

Sheila LaBarre remained calm and subdued while investigators continued to interrogate her late into the night on March 27, 2006.
Jurors today watched as LaBarre continued in the interview to deny having anything to do with Kenneth Countie’s death and tried to explain away why she pointed to a Wal-Mart bag and said he was in [...]

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