RE: “It doesn’t quite say that he killed her,” LeJeune noted.
BSL, brutally beat Lisa Pate, fracturing her skull, while holding her hostage, terrorizing her for days, suffocating her with a plastic bag while choking her, 13 years ago. Yet, refuses to accept responsibility for the 1st degree murder charge?
Folks, violent sex offenders like BS Lavergne, do not de-escalate in their deviant sadistical behavior as the following article suggests. Imo, the article is sanitized beyond comprehension.
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/08/20/man-pleads-guilty-mickey-shunick-lisa-pate-murders
Lavergne affirmed that all of this information was accurate. A coroner’s report released Friday confirmed that Shunick’s cause of death was a “gunshot wound to the head, contributing factor multiple stab wounds.”
In the statement, Lavergne also agreed that it was in his best interest to plead guilty to Lisa Pate’s murder. However, the document notes that “he may be unwilling or unable to admit his participation in the acts constituting the first-degree murder of Lisa Pate.”
“It wasn’t as clean of an admission as you saw with Shunick,” LeJeune told HLN. He added that working out the language of what Lavergne would admit to regarding Pate was “the hardest part of this case.”
Pate was last seen alive in Lafayette in June 1999 and her body was discovered in September of that year. Prosecutors stated in the document that fellow inmates were prepared to testify that Lavergne told them he had beaten and killed a woman, choking her with a plastic bag over her head. Investigators believe that woman was Pate.
The statement alleges that Pate met up with Lavergne at a Lafayette hotel one night and went with him to another location. After several days together, Pate decided that she wanted to go home to see her children, but Lavergne would not let her leave. She tried to take his keys while he was sleeping, but he woke up and attacked her, beating her and choking her.
“Lisa died shortly after the attack by the defendant,” the document states.
When Pate’s body was found, there were remnants of plastic around her skull and bones on her face and skull were fractured. According to prosecutors, those facts were consistent with the story Lavergne allegedly told the other inmates.
“It doesn’t quite say that he killed her,” LeJeune noted. He said that Lavergne maintained that the state’s theory about what happened to Pate was wrong and based on the unreliable testimony of “jailhouse snitches.”