LaBarre Lawyers Don’t Want Witness
March 26, 2008
Sheila LaBarre’s attorneys are fighting to keep off the stand an expert witness who plans to testify about the Epping woman’s “serial” behavior.LaBarre, 49, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murdering Kenneth Countie and Michael Deloge on her 115-acre Epping horse farm. While admitting the state has enough evidence to prove she killed the men, LaBarre will go to trial in early May to persuade a jury that she was not legally responsible for the deaths.
As part of their case that LaBarre was not insane at the time she committed the murders — Deloge in the early fall of 2005 and Countie in March 2006 — the state appears to have hired a former FBI criminal profiler who is assembling an analysis of her crimes that “are alleged to be serial in nature and more specifically those crimes related to serial murder.”
The expert, Mark E. Safarik, is a private consultant who in a letter dated March 5, indicates a report on LaBarre that he is preparing will “address the nature of a serial murder, including victim selection, weapon use, organization and planning, body disposal.”
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