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Post by Marica Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:21 pm

A Grundy County Iowa jury has found Michelle Kehoe guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder and child endangerment.
Kehoe was on trial for killing here two-year-old son Seth and trying to kill her seven-year-old son Sean last October.

Jury deliberations began Thursday morning, following closing statements.

Kehoe's lawyer used an insanity defense,
claiming she was mentally ill at the time of the attack.

Prosecutors said her meticulous planning shows she knew what she was doing.
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Post by Wrapitup Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:47 pm

Glad the insanity defense didn't work!!

Do you by chance have a link, Marica? Thanks!!
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Post by Marica Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:36 pm

Sorry... I blundered upon this short notice, and didn't think to copy the link.
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Post by Marica Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:40 pm

Links to news items about guilty verdict

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Post by Wrapitup Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:40 am

Thanks, Marica!!
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Post by CritterFan1 Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:54 am

Guilty!!!!! There is justice.
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Post by Marica Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:58 am

If ONLY the Iowa Courts would always make the right choice in cases abot children.
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Post by janie Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:25 pm

Marica wrote:If ONLY the Iowa Courts would always make the right choice in cases abot children.
I agree!!! Thanks for the link too Marica!
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Post by Wrapitup Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:10 am

Updated: 14 hours 38 minutes ago

Beth Karas and Emanuella Grinberg
CNN
(Dec. 16) -- An Iowa mother was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday for slitting her 2-year-old son's throat and leaving him to die near a remote pond in October 2008, a prosecutor said.

Michelle Kehoe, 36, also received 25 years on one count of attempted murder for slashing her older son's throat. She left both children outside the family van before attempting to kill herself.

The 7-year-old survived and provided key testimony against his mother, whose attorneys argued that she believed she was trying to save her sons from a life of suffering when she cut their throats and her own.

A jury rejected her insanity defense and convicted her of first-degree murder, attempted murder and child endangerment on Nov. 4.

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Michelle Kehoe, seen at her trial in November, was sentenced Tuesday to life imprisonment for the murder of her 2-year-old son.

Kehoe also received a 10-year sentence for child endangerment for the injuries she inflicted on her older son, who survived for the night locked inside the family van, Buchanan County Attorney Allan Vander Hart said.

Against the wishes of Kehoe's husband, Judge Bruce Zager also granted an extension of the prosecution's request for a no-contact order, which prohibits Kehoe from contacting her surviving son or anyone with whom he lives.

Kehoe's son lives with her husband, Gene Kehoe, who regularly visited his wife until the order went into effect in April. The judge's decision to continue the no-contact order, which includes written contact, will remain in effect for five years, and extends to father and son.

"When [the victim's] therapist tells us he is ready and it might be beneficial, then that's the time to revisit the no-contact order. He's pretty fragile right now," Vander Hart said.

Prosecutors countered that Kehoe methodically planned to kill her sons and herself, but botched it. The detailed planning showed she was not legally insane, Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser said.

Kehoe began planning the attack the previous month, buying the knife and the duct tape, according to testimony. She told her husband she was taking the boys to visit her mother at a nursing home.

Police found a handwritten note that Kehoe admitted to writing to support the story she initially told police.

The note said a man broke into the car when the family stopped at a gas station and forced them to the area where the van was found. In the note, Kehoe said she tried to fight him off with pepper spray, but he knocked her unconscious.

Kehoe's lawyer, Andrea Dryer, asked the court to run the sentences concurrently on account of her extreme mental illness.

The judge sentenced Kehoe consecutively for first-degree murder and attempted murder and concurrently on attempted murder and child endangerment so that the sentences would represent the two boys.

"I asked for consecutive time because there were two victims and because of the extensive planning and premeditation of these crimes," Vander Hart said.

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Post by Nama Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:52 pm

NiteSpinR said:
Jury hears boy, 7, describe how mother attacked him and his brother
Michelle Kehoe Gets Life Sentence for Murdering Son Seth and trying to kill her seven-year-old son Sean Story_11

October 29, 2009 8:15 p.m. EDT
Iowa
(CNN) -- A mother's plot to blame a stranger for killing her sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut his throat, then moved on to his younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday.

Police found the 7-year-old covered in dried blood in the family van the morning of October 27, 2008, in a secluded area near a pond east of Littleton. Beside the van, his 2-year-old brother lay dead, his throat also slashed.

"She cut me," the boy said in a high-pitched voice in an audio recording that was played Thursday in Kehoe's first-degree murder trial.

Kehoe, of Coralville, Iowa, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and child endangerment causing serious injury. Before the trial, her lawyers filed a notice of intent to present an insanity defense, according to court records.

Kehoe's lawyers chose to reserve their opening arguments for the start of their case.

Dressed in a blue and white striped blouse, Kehoe frowned as she listened to her son's voice on the recording, occasionally bowing her head.

The boy had locked himself in the van overnight after his mother slashed him and his younger brother the previous day and left them for dead, Assistant Iowa Attorney General Andrew Prosser said in his opening statement.

Kehoe then walked to a nearby pond and attempted to kill herself by slashing her throat with the same weapon, a camouflage-handle Winchester hunting knife she bought the month before, Prosser said.

When it became apparent she was not going to die, the prosecutor said, she staggered half a mile down the road to the nearest home and told a story she'd concocted weeks before of how a stranger abducted the family, killed her sons and tried to kill her.

But when authorities went searching for the stranger, they instead found her 7-year-old son in the car and his younger brother dead outside the driver's side.

"Do you know where you're injured at?" Deputy Stephen Peterson asked the boy in the recording.

"Just my throat," the boy said.

"Who did that to you?"

"My mom."

The boy said his mother also put duct tape over his eyes, nose and mouth, but that he pulled them off after his mother left him.

"She was hurting my baby brother," he said.

Kehoe began plotting the attack the month before with the purchase of the knife and the duct tape, Prosser said. She allegedly chose the date of the incident to coincide with when her husband, Gene, was scheduled to take a yoga class, telling him they were going to visit her mother at a nursing home in Sumner.

Police also say they found signs of a cover-up at the scene, including pieces of a first-aid kit scattered around the scene and a handwritten note documenting the attack, Prosser said.

The note detailed how a man broke into the car when the family stopped at a gas station and forced them to the area where the van was found. Kehoe tried to fight him off with pepper spray but he knocked her unconscious, the note said, according to the prosecutor.

Police said Kehoe later told them she had written the note in the midst of the attack to explain what had happened to those who would find the scene, according to the prosecutor.

"And the note, which you'll see, ends with, 'Oh no, here he comes again...' " Prosser told the jury.

Kehoe faces life in prison without parole if convicted of first-degree murder for her son's death.

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Post by Nama Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:53 pm

by Wrapitup on Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:01 am

WTF? It seems like everyday, we hear of either a convicted SO killing a child, a parent killing their child, a teen killing their mom, or another female teen killing another female teen.

Add to that, little Haleigh and Morgan, Brittney, Adji, Jennifer, Stacy Peterson, Natalie, Lindsay, Trenton and so many more.....who are nowhere to be found.

Gang rapes and no one does a damned thing!

Jaycee and what she endured!!

Is there no end to these despicable crimes??
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by lindamarie on Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:22 am

Wow right in my own state and I did not recall this story until nitespinr posted it. Thank you so much.
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Post by artgal16 Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:04 pm

Did I read that correctly? The father wanted the surviving son to have contact with the mother?
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