But in a rebuttal motion filed last week, attorneys for the family of 24-year-old Kenneth Countie, who was killed by LaBarre in March 2006, argued there is ample evidence and legal standing to move the case forward.

Full story from Beth LaMontagne Hall on Seacoast Online.

Nearly 100 people, many of them spectators, turned out for the auction at 70 Oak Hill Lane held by James R. St. Jean Auctioneers of Manchester.

The couple who placed the highest bid refused to provide their name to the media and scurried away moments after the auction concluded.

The sale included the circa-1777, Cape-style farmhouse, a large barn on 119.2 acres of rolling farmland.

Full story from JASON SCHREIBER

Also see LaBarre’s Epping Farmhouse Sold At Auction For $600K (WMUR) and the story by Lara Bricker on Seacoast Online.

The 88-year-old lifelong Epping farmer used to own the now infamous farmhouse where Sheila LaBarre savagely murdered two men and then burned the dismembered body of at least one of them.

When the foreclosed property at 70 Oak Hill Lane goes up for auction May 28, Harvey’s family plans to make a bid. Harvey said he’d like to see the LaBarre farm returned to the more than 2,000 acres of land that’s been in the Harvey family for generations.

The circa 1777 Cape-style farmhouse is now boarded up and falling into disrepair, but Harvey thinks it still has potential. He’s not at all spooked by the gruesome killings and said he wouldn’t be afraid to sleep in the place.

“It doesn’t bother me a bit,” he insisted yesterday as he took a break from moving large rocks around on his Red Oak Hill farm.

Full story from JASON SCHREIBER

The auction for the circa-1777, Cape-style farmhouse and 119.2 acres of land is scheduled for 11 a.m. May 28 at the property on 70 Oak Hill Lane in Epping.

LaBarre was convicted last year for the first-degree murder of Kenneth Countie, 24, a special-needs adult who lived at her Epping farm, and Michael Deloge, 38, who disappeared in the fall of 2005. She is currently in a Massachusetts prison serving two life sentences without parole.

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The suit contends police share responsibility for Countie’s death because department members knew the Epping woman was dangerous and had abused him, but did little to stop her.

LaBarre is serving life in prison for the gruesome killings of Countie, 24, and another man, Michael Deloge, 38, on her Epping farm.

The suit was filed this week in Rockingham County Superior Court and names the town of Epping, Police Chief Gregory Dodge, Lt. Michael Wallace, Sgt. Sean Gallagher and Detective Richard Cote.

Full story from JASON SCHREIBER.

Also see: Relatives Of LaBarre Victim Sue Police

From the NH Department of Corrections Website:

Inmate Locator Search RSAs
NAME DOB INMATE ID TERM ID BOOKED DATE CURRENT PAROLE DATE MAXED FACILITY
SHEILA KAYE LABARRE 07/04/1958 79895 49122 1/1/1900 5/27/2107 5/27/2107 Massachusetts

CaseID OffenseDate Minimum Maximum Docket Crime
98695 3/31/2006 5/27/2107 5/27/2107 218-2006-S-02506 RSA 630:1-a:Murder - First Degree
98694 6/20/2008 5/27/2107 5/27/2107 218-2008-S-00517 RSA 630:1-a:Murder - First Degree

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First came the discovery of a smoldering pile of debris with a human bone sticking out of it on a farm in Epping.

In the hours following there were neighbors too afraid to talk about the female suspect and an overheard conversation between investigators that led reporter Kevin Flynn to believe a missing persons case was much darker.

The above came to light in the spring of 2006 and it didn’t take long for Flynn — former WMUR television reporter turned author — to realize he had been assigned the story of a lifetime whose full telling wouldn’t fit in a 30-second news segment.

Flynn, 38, of Hopkinton has moved on from reporting at Channel 9 and is set for the Dec. 1 release of his first book: “Wicked Intentions: The Sheila LaBarre Murders – A True Story.”

Flynn worked for WMUR for five years and delved into the murder case in far more detail than required by his job. He was assigned the story as a journalist, but it would later become the focus of a new book detailing one of New Hampshire’s most grisly murderers.

The book, titled Wicked Intentions: The Sheila LaBarre Murders – A True Story (New Horizon Press, Dec. 1, 2008), was written by former WMUR-TV reporter Kevin Flynn, who covered the case from the beginning. Flynn, 38, of Hopkinton, felt from his first night on the story that it could be the case of his career.

LaBarre was convicted in June of this year of murdering and then burning the body of her live-in boyfriend Kenneth Countie, as well as the murder of another boyfriend, Michael Deloge.

A jury rejected the defense case that LaBarre was insane at the time that she killed the two men. After researching her case for more than two years, and meeting her in person, Flynn also has an opinion on LaBarre’s mental status.

“Do I think she’s legally insane or not responsible for her actions? No. I think she belongs in jail. I think the jury got it right,” Flynn said. “But when we talk about the things she does, we use words like crazy, nuts, lunatic, and I think it actually describes her behavior. Just because she’s crazy doesn’t mean she’s legally insane.”

Full story from Lara Bricker

The court also granted her request to have the state pick up the more than $25,000 tab to provide her with a copy of her trial transcript and other legal documents needed to prepare her appeal.

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Although she was glad to see her son’s murderer brought to justice and held responsible for her crimes, it doesn’t ease the pain of her loss. “I was happy with the outcome, but it should have been done years ago,” Lodge said. “It won’t bring my son back.”

On June 20, a Rockingham County Superior Court jury found that LaBarre was sane when she murdered Countie in 2006 and Michael Deloge in 2005, foiling her defense team’s efforts to show that she was not guilty by reason of insanity. But the defense plans to file an appeal, and the case is likely to drag on for more than a year.

Defense attorney Jeffrey Denner maintains that LaBarre was insane when she murdered the two ex-boyfriends on her Epping farm. “Sheila LaBarre was crazy. Sheila LaBarre was insane,” he said during a phone interview last week. “These are not the acts of a rational person.”

Full story from Matt Kanner in The Wire.