GUILTY VT - Melissa Jenkins, 33, St Johnsbury, 25 March 2012

[fhc]

http://www.necn.com/06/02/13/Woman-...g.html?&apID=abebd1fb01d24557b31b6fe406bb2916

Marc Eagle filed a motion in Caledonia Superior Court seeking to have the charge dismissed against 34-year-old Patricia Prue. Prue and her husband, 31-year-old Allen Prue, are charged with abducting and killing St. Johnsbury Academy science teacher Melissa Jenkins after luring her from her home in March 2012.

 

[TheCrankyChef]

The lawyer wants charges dismissed. :floorlaugh: Somehow I don't think that's going to happen since she apparently can't keep herself out of trouble even behind bars.

http://www.wcax.com/story/25121019/police-patricia-prue-sent-letters-to-husband

 

[TheCrankyChef]

If this happens, I will be very CRANKY! :scared:http://article.wn.com/view/2014/03/26/Defense_asks_for_Allen_Prues_confession_to_be_tossed/

 

[TheCrankyChef]

Her lawyer must be running out of options - can't get the charges dropped, sooo let's do the "I'm crazier than bat poo poo" defense. Good grief - she's safer behind :jail:.:moo:

http://www.wcax.com/story/25678358/patricia-prues-trial-date

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wcax.com/story/26571382/judge-prue-confession-can-be-used-against-him

Allen Prue's trial is set to begin Oct. 6. His lawyer wanted statements he made to police during questioning suppressed, citing Miranda rights violations. But Thursday, Judge Robert Bent denied that request.

A trial date for Patricia Prue has not been set yet.

 

[TheCrankyChef]

Melissa touched so many even after her death. RIP Melissa.

http://www.wcax.com/story/26204172/keeping-melissa-jenkins-memory-alive

http://www.danwyandpt.com/

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/.../prue-trial-vermont-teacher-killing/16795375/

A jury of nine men and seven women will hear the murder case of Allen Prue, who is accused of kidnapping and killing St. Johnsbury teacher Melissa Jenkins more than two years ago. The jury, which includes alternates, was finalized at about 4 p.m. Monday, following a day of questioning of potential jurors in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington.

Opening arguments are scheduled for Wednesday.

 

[OkieGranny]

A detailed summary of the case to date, if you don't have time to read all 32 pages of this thread to catch up:

http://www.wcax.com/story/26734231/trial-starts-for-man-accused-of-killing-teacher

Investigators say on March 25, 2012, Patricia Prue lured Jenkins out of her home with a story about a broken-down car. Prue claimed she and her husband needed help. Allen Prue used to plow Jenkins' driveway. Police say she thought the call was odd and phoned her ex to make sure someone knew she where she going to help.

Hours later, Jenkins' car was found on Goss Hollow Road in St. J still running with her toddler asleep in the back seat. The boy was able to tell police someone allegedly pulled mommy's neck and she left the car...

On March 26, 2012, investigators found Jenkins' body in a shallow area of the Connecticut River in Barnet. She was naked with a cinder block tied to her feet. Investigators also found condom wrappers near her body. "It was determined by the chief medical examiner, Dr. Stephen Shapiro, that the cause of Miss Jenkins death was the result of strangulation,” said Ledo.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.mychamplainvalley.com/st...murdering-meliss/32357/EDa2s2vnAkq7ZZTgnvRx-w

Wednesday jurors heard witness testimony about the early stages of the police investigation including from Melissa Jenkins ex-boyfriend Randy Rathburn.

Rathburn told jurors he talked with Jenkins on the phone earlier on the night she was kidnapped. Rathburn says Jenkins told him she had gotten a call from someone asking for car assistance. Prosecutors say it was Patricia Prue with her husband Allen by her side...

Rathburn says Jenkins gave him information about who she was helping. She read Rathburn a name from a business card. It was “Prue.”

 

[Caffeine]

Ah, I remember this one now. The toddler alone in the running car was always the part that haunted me.

Its a shame, VT is generally a safe place, too.

Sad story all around, but at least we are likely to get a conviction now.

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[OkieGranny]

http://www.wcvb.com/news/murder-trial-underway-in-vermont-teacher-killing/29028236

In opening statements in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington, Caledonia County State's Attorney said Allen Prue and his wife began planning the crime long before Melissa Jenkins was strangled on a Sunday night in March 2012...

"He tells police they went out Sunday night to 'get a girl.' They wanted somebody they could play with," Warren said. "As detectives continually push him to be truthful, he ultimately confesses to murdering Mellissa Jenkins with his wife."

But defense attorney Robert Katims painted a picture of a simple-minded country boy with an IQ of 75 who was awed by his wife Patricia Prue, a woman he met online with a long history of psychiatric troubles. He said detectives forced the confession during a seven-hour long interview.

 

[gemvt]

Unfortunately the local news channel WCAX had a terrible editing error and accidentally showed three crime scene photos of Melissa's body submerged in water. The anchor immediately apologized, but it was quite traumatic to see.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/.../10/09/prue-murder-trial-second-day/16974117/

Vermont State Police Capt. J.P. Sinclair told the jury in the Allen Prue murder trial Thursday that the body of Melissa Jenkins was found in the water at a boating access on the Connecticut River in Waterford, covered with evergreen boughs and weighed down with two cinder blocks...

State Police Lt. Matthew Mally, the last police officer to testify Thursday, was questioned about a second interview conducted of Prue on March 27, 2012.

As part of Mally's testimony, prosecutors began playing a tape of that interview before breaking for the day. The tape, said to contain a confession by Prue, is more than seven hours long and is expected to take up all of the trial's time Friday.

 

[Bodhi]

Patricia Prue refused to testify against her husband yesterday, invoking the Fifth Amendment.

http://www.wcax.com/story/26794019/patricia-prue-refuses-to-testify-during-teacher-death-trial

 

[Bodhi]

Witnesses testified today about separate suspicious incidents in the days before Melissa was murdered. The prosecution is building a case that the murder was premediated.

Just days before the murder, a game warden spotted a man who resembled Prue at the dam where Melissa's body was dumped. After her body was recovered there and Prue was arrested, the warden contacted investigators.

A woman who attended a basketball game at St. Johnsbury Academy three nights before the crime testified about her encounter her family had with a hostile couple who looked like the Prues on the way in. When the family left, the couple was still lurking outside in the same spot. Melissa attended the basketball game.

A third witness testified about seeing a maroon sedan idling in Jenkins's driveway before the murders.

Another witness, who knew Alan since he was a child and Patricia for a few years, testified she met the Prues in a Walmart parking lot on the day of the murder to lend them $50. Alan had told her he needed gas money for his job delivering newspapers. She thought he was not acting like himself; he was unusually serious and quiet.

http://www.wcax.com/story/26808095/why-are-allen-prues-lawyers-asking-judge-for-mistrial

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...witnesses-recall-interactions-prues/17361163/

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...cia-prue-researched-kidnapping-rape/17441261/

Patricia Prue used her laptop computer in July 2011 to research tips on how to kidnap and rape a girl without getting caught, a Vermont State Police digital forensics expert told the jury Friday in the murder trial of her husband, Allen Prue.

“There were search terms related to ‘how to kidnap a girl,’” Detective Sgt. Peter Garivaltis testified in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington Friday morning.

Later, a list of searches Garivaltis said were conducted on Patricia Prue’s laptop computer were put on a screen across the courtroom from the jury. The list included several “how to kidnap a girl” keyword search phrases and one that read “how to rape a girl and not get caught.”

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wcax.com/story/26831116/defense-rests-case-in-prue-trial

The first degree murder trial of Allen Prue is coming to an end. Both sides are done presenting evidence to the jury. The state rested its case Monday morning. And the defense wrapped up its evidence late this afternoon...

But the jury won't get to hear Prue's version of events. Late Monday afternoon he declined to take the stand...

Jurors will return to court at Tuesday morning to hear closing arguments. Then deliberations will begin. The judge told them, depending how long it takes they can choose to deliberate into the night or break until the next day.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.vnews.com/news/state/region/14025064-95/jury-begins-deliberations-in-st-j-killing

A Vermont jury began deliberations Tuesday in the case of a part-time snowplow driver charged along with his wife with luring a popular teacher out of her home and killing her in 2012.

The jury in the trial of 32-year-old Allen Prue got the case at about 3 p.m. Tuesday after Prue’s lawyer sought in his closing argument to pin the blame for Melissa Jenkins’ killing on Prue’s wife, Patricia Prue, who is to be tried separately.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2014/10/22/3308610_vermont-man-guilty-of-luring-killing.html?rh=1

A part-time snowplow driver was convicted Wednesday of luring a prep-school teacher out of her Vermont home under the guise of a broken-down car, then killed her...

Allen Prue, 32, cried when the jury's verdict was announced after six hours of deliberations. His lawyer had argued his client was unaware of his wife's plan to kill Jenkins.

Allen Prue was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and attempted kidnapping in the death of Jenkins, a teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy.

 

[TheCrankyChef]

YES! I hope his wife gets her just desserts as well. I can see this on the ID channel for Deadly Couples. What a pair of monsters.