Police Demand Answers From LaBarre In Taped Interview
May 22, 2008
In a videotaped interview with police, admitted killer Sheila LaBarre continued to deny she killed Kenneth Countie while police became increasingly confrontational.
Jurors watched a tape of the interview Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. For much of the interview, LaBarre told how she met Countie, but as it continued, state police Sgt. Robert Estabrook raised his voice and accused LaBarre of lying about Countie’s death.
“You’re a liar! You are a liar,” Estabrook said in the tape. “You talked at length about your meeting with him. Talked at length about a sexual encounter with him. I bring you back to that night. That night that wasn’t long ago, and you can’t remember. You can’t remember.”
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One-time Epping Economic Honcho Wants Cut From Town
May 16, 2008
Former economic development director Jim Boynton is suing the town, claiming it has refused to fully pay him for his efforts to attract new businesses that have generated millions in tax revenue.
Boynton argues town officials broke a contract signed when he was appointed economic development director in 1999.
The position was created as a way to encourage such businesses as Wal-Mart, Lowe’s and others to come to town. Boynton had a hand in several big commercial projects in recent years.
The suit filed this month in Rockingham County Superior Court seeks payment for his work, but does not specify a dollar amount. Boynton has received some compensation, but the suit doesn’t state how much he has already been paid.
“Mr. Boynton performed all duties required of him as the economic development director. In fact, over the course of his employment, Mr. Boynton was instrumental in successfully bringing millions of dollars of revenue to the town of Epping by securing a multitude of new commercial and industrial-type businesses within the town,” the suit reads.
Boynton’s lawyer, Rick Ward Jr., said he didn’t know exactly how much Boynton was still owed because the town has been “unwilling or unable” to tell him.
Among other things, the suit asks the court to order the town to provide a full accounting of all new commercial and industrial-type businesses that Boynton helped bring to town.
Full story from JASON SCHREIBER
LaBarre Tapes: Talk of murder
May 16, 2008
In recordings she made of herself interrogating her victims in the days before they died, admitted murderer Sheila LaBarre told the two men that they were dangerous and insane, but deserved to go to prison, not a mental institution.
Hoping to avoid a sentence of life in prison herself, LaBarre is now pleading insanity in the murders of Kenneth Countie and Michael Deloge. If the jury agrees she was insane when she committed the murders, LaBarre will likely be sent to the secure psychiatric unit at the state prison.
In tapes played by defense attorneys in court yesterday, LaBarre seemed to think her victims did not deserve the same treatment.
Full story from RUSS CHOMA.
LaBarre scolds victims in recordings
May 16, 2008
Jurors deciding whether Sheila LaBarre was insane when she killed two of her boyfriends listened to more audio tapes yesterday in which she berated and interrogated her victims.
On Wednesday, the judge abruptly halted court proceedings after LaBarre began to collapse and breathe heavily as she listened to a tape recording in which she questioned Michael Deloge about whether he had molested young girls. Yesterday, jurors heard the rest of that tape and others featuring LaBarre’s family, her former husband and her other victim, Kenneth Countie.
Forensic psychologist Malcolm Rogers testified that LaBarre made the tapes “to document the wrongs that have been done to her.”
“She’s identifying the things people have done to her, but there is virtually no self-reflection in her role,” Rogers said.
Rogers testified the tapes illustrate that LaBarre has either a schizophrenic affect disorder or a delusional disorder that caused her to mistakenly believe the men were pedophiles and to kill them.
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LaBarre rushed from courtroom
May 15, 2008
In a whispery, barely audible voice, Michael Deloge’s flat replies wafted through the courtroom, weak responses to Sheila LaBarre’s snarling, demanding questions.
LaBarre has admitted to killing Deloge and another man, Kenneth Countie, on her Epping farm, but now is pleading insanity. The tape of the interrogation, made sometime in 2005, brought to a life a horrifying scene in which LaBarre, in outraged and angry tones, drilled Deloge with accusatory question after accusatory question, and Deloge, faintly and almost absently tried to admit to everything she asked him to.
The tape, played by defense attorneys, was abruptly stopped late yesterday afternoon, after LaBarre herself apparently became overwhelmed with emotion, and began breathing rapidly and slumping forward, causing Rockingham County Superior Court judge Tina Nadeau to stop the trial for the day. LaBarre was rushed from the courtroom.
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Psychiatrist Testifies That LaBarre Was Insane
May 14, 2008
Defense attorneys for Sheila LaBarre called their first psychiatric expert in the case on Wednesday after jurors hear testimony from a police officer about taped graphic sexual conversations LaBarre had with men she met.
Dr. Malcolm Rogers testified that he believes LaBarre was criminally insane when she killed Kenneth Countie and Michael Deloge on her Epping, N.H., farm. He said she has a schizo-affective disorder and a delusional disorder.
“Both the thinking disorder and the mood disorder have a life of their own,” he said. “Sometimes, both are present.”
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Witness: LaBarre called herself a ‘black widow’ in phone calls
May 14, 2008
Sheila LaBarre made hundreds of hours of tapes of her phone conversations, including calls where she referred to herself as a black widow, and discussed adopting children to use for sex.
“She responded that she’s a black widow and she can devour you without even mating,” an investigator said this morning, testifying about a phone call between LaBarre and a man contacted through the TeleMates dating service.
It is the second day of testimony in LaBarre’s insanity case. She has admitted to killing two men, Michael Deloge and Kenneth Countie, at her Epping farmhouse. Her sister, Lynne Noojin, returned to the stand this morning, after testifying yesterday that LaBarre was molested as a child and began acting increasingly erratic in recent years.
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Prosecution says LaBarre knew what she was doing
May 14, 2008
You will know insanity when you see it. It is looking right at you.
Admitted murderer Sheila LaBarre calmly sat, shackled, in her chair at the defense table as her attorney, Brad Bailey, told this to the 18 jurors in her insanity trial. Labarre, 49, has admitted to killing two men on her Epping farm, Michael Deloge and Kenneth Countie, but says she was insane when she killed them.
“It won’t even be close,” Bailey promised. “It will be staring right back at you, all you need to do is look.”
Bailey described LaBarre as a deeply troubled woman, who believed a ghost lived in her house and attacked her, that most men she had sex with were secretly pedophiles and that she was already dead, sent back to life by God. She became more aggressive toward each man in her life as she got older, nearly killing a few before she actually did. One ex-boyfriend even has vanity plates that read “I’m alive,” Bailey said.
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Epping Celebrates Being Off ‘Need of Improvement’ List
May 13, 2008
Epping made “Annual Yearly Progress” in reading and exited the “District in Need of Improvement” status. The state Department of Education released reports on AYP on May 8 for all schools in the state.
The New England Common Assessment Program tests given each year to students in Grades 3 to 8 and Grade 11 are used a benchmark for the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Schools or districts not meeting the standard in core subjects like reading and math for two years in a row are designated “in need of improvement.”
Epping Superintendent Barbara Munsey said achieving AYP was a community effort, from students eating breakfast on test day to voters providing fiscal resources to get the job done.
“We’ve put in the hard work and the right work and the results show that,” she said. “Obviously we are very pleased with the results. The reality is the work is not over; the initiatives must continue.”
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LaBarre To View Her Epping Farm With Jury
May 13, 2008
For the first time since her arrest in April 2006, Sheila LaBarre will view the Epping horse farm she called home for many years.
Since that time, the home has been torn apart by investigators and vandals. Smashed cars and broken windows are visible from Red Oak Hill Lane. The white cape and surrounding property have sat abandoned for two years.
The farm is one of three locations the 18-member jury will view as LaBarre’s trial on the issue of sanity begins today. The last three of the 18 jurors were seated on Monday, one week after jury selection began.
LaBarre will be wearing a stun belt to prevent her from trying to escape. It will be hidden under her clothes so jurors can’t see it.
At the push of a button, a sheriff’s officer can send an electric shock through her body to stop her from running.
More from Gretyl MacAlaster.
Also see ‘Stun belt’ to keep LaBarre in check by Russ Choma.
