Jurors to see Ransacked Farm when LaBarre Murder Trial Begins
April 25, 2008
The long, rutted dirt road to the former home of Sheila LaBarre works its way into a wooded area and is soon flanked by short New England-style stone walls and leafless trees that seem to stand sentry over the entrance to the now infamous murder scene.
Further down the road and just beyond a stand of trees are large untilled fields blanketed in dead hay on each side of the road.
Shrouded in darkness from the surrounding trees sits a small, white farmhouse, abandoned and vandalized, flanked by several cars and trucks parked haphazardly about the property with dented hoods and body panels, slashed tires, ripped seats and smashed windshields.
This is the scene that will greet jurors as they view the property in addition to two other sites before hearing testimony in the insanity trial against LaBarre in May.
By GRETYL MACALASTER and JOHN HUFF.
(What’s with the romanticized prose here?)
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