GUILTY WA - Six Anderson family members slain in Carnation home, 24 Dec 2007

[Littledeer]

I would be more than happy to inject the "lethal" shot to them.

I just can't get those two little angels out of my mind.

 

[PJs]

I don't understand why the Prosecutors are "wavering" on if the death penatly should be given to these two.

one thing you guys need to understand is that Gary Ridgeway (Green River Killer (killer of 48)) had the death penalty taken off if he would help locate other victims. That alone, makes it really hard for any other case to try it without many, many appeals.

Most of our cases now are settling with "Life" and I think Washington screwed up...

Zina Linnik's killer should have definitely gotten the death penalty!!

 

[PJs]

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_012508WAB_carnation_death_penalty_KS.598d3406.html

SEATTLE - The deadline has been postponed for a decision on whether to seek the death penalty in the killing of six people in Carnation.

The new deadline for prosecutors to decide whether to seek the execution of Michele K. Anderson and Joseph Thomas McEnroe is May 2.

 

[Jolynna]

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_012508WAB_carnation_death_penalty_KS.598d3406.html

SEATTLE - The deadline has been postponed for a decision on whether to seek the death penalty in the killing of six people in Carnation.

The new deadline for prosecutors to decide whether to seek the execution of Michele K. Anderson and Joseph Thomas McEnroe is May 2.

Thanks for the update.

 

[Jolynna]

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_012508WAB_carnation_death_penalty_KS.598d3406.html

SEATTLE - The deadline has been postponed for a decision on whether to seek the death penalty in the killing of six people in Carnation.

The new deadline for prosecutors to decide whether to seek the execution of Michele K. Anderson and Joseph Thomas McEnroe is May 2.

That deadline has now been extended to August 4.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/359499_carnationbrief18.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004358167_apwacarnationkillings.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004356799_webcarnation17m.html

 

[southcitymom]

Thanks for the update, Jolynna.

 

[joe jones]

http://www.komonews.com/news/21676149.html

Michele told some reporter she wanted the DP, does anybody know if the pros has decided if it will be a DP case

 

[chicoliving]

A Seattle woman for months has insisted that she should be put to death for murdering six of her family members on Christmas Eve.

Since the prosecution decided to seek the death penalty in her case, however, attorneys for Michele Anderson say she has changed her mind and will now fight to keep from becoming the first woman ever to be executed in Washington state, The Seattle Times reported.

King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg on Thursday announced plans to seek death sentences for Anderson, 30, and her former live-in boyfriend Joseph McEnroe, 29.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,440241,00.html

 

[Bobbisangel]

They both deserve the death penalty for what they did to her parents, brother and sister-in-law and those two little kids. They deserve nothing less.

 

[milopedes]

Does anyone have any updates?

 

[dasaky]

This is so crazy. I was just thinking about this case the other day and wondering what was going on. Since this happened, I have 2 new grandchildren, and it just kills me thinking of what happened. I can't even fathom how you could shoot another human regardless of whether they were your family or not. Heartbreaking.

 

[JoeFromLB]

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/421156_carnation04.html?source=rss

June 4, 2010

Two accused in a Christmas Eve massacre at a Carnation home will continue to face a death sentence, a King County Superior Court judge ruled Friday.

Making his ruling after a lengthy series of hearings on the matter, Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell rejected defense arguments that the state's capital murder law is too broad and that King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg erred in asking for such a sentence in the Christmas Eve killing of six people.

His decision came as the murder prosecution of Michele Anderson and Joseph McEnroe is well into its fourth year. A firm trial date has not yet been set.

Prosecutors contend Anderson and McEnroe gunned down Anderson's parents, her brother and sister-in-law and that couple's two children, aged 6 and 3. Each faces six counts of aggravated murder, the only crime in the state that can carry a death sentence.

Anderson and McEnroe first killed Anderson's parents, Wayne and Judy, at their Carnation home, prosecutors argue. They are alleged to have then turned their guns on 6-year-old Olivia Anderson and her brother, Nathan, 3. They, were shot to death alongside their parents, Scott Anderson and Erica Mantle Anderson, as all four arrived for a Christmas Eve celebration.

Shortly after the killings, Anderson told police she felt slighted by her parents, on whose property she and McEnroe were living when the shooting occurred, according to prosecutors' statements. Police say both admitted to the killings shortly after being arrested at the crime scene the day the bodies were discovered.

 

[JoeFromLB]

http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-seattle/accused-carnation-killer-appears-court

September 9, 2010

Crime analysts still have a long way to go in testing evidence in connection with the alleged Christmas Eve murders in Carnation, said a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in King County Superior Court Thursday.

James Konat told Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell that the analysis of the bullets from the hand guns that Michele Anderson and her boyfriend Joe McEnroe allegedly used to kill her family is still being completed at the Washington State Crime Lab.

Then, they will undergo DNA test, he said.

Konat indicated the King County Prosecutor's Office still wants to try both defendants separately.

The status hearing was the latest court appearance for Anderson --who has been in King County jail since her arrest --on six aggravated first-degree murder charges


A trial date has been scheduled for October 10, 2011.

The couple is due in court Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 3 p.m., King County Courthouse, Room W-813.

 

[JoeFromLB]

Attorneys may be in trouble over stolen, bloody envelope

November 8, 2010

A Seattle public-defense firm and two of its lawyers could be facing discipline after one of the lawyers stole a blood-spattered envelope from the Carnation home where six members of a family were killed on Christmas Eve 2007.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013381232_carnation09m.html



Lawyer removed from murder case in Carnation

November 18, 2010

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013469753_carnation19m.html

The lawyer for a Carnation woman accused of killing her family on Christmas Eve 2007 was removed from the case Thursday, nearly a week after the lawyer's public-defense firm disclosed that possible evidence was taken from the crime scene.

 

[joe jones]

trial will be delayed further, I think they will both go with an insanity defence,

there confessions leave little wriggle room for any other kind of defence

 

[JoeFromLB]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014903403_carnation29m.html

April 28, 2011

A man and a woman accused of killing six members of a family in Carnation on Christmas Eve 2007 will be tried separately, a King County judge ruled on Thursday.

Since their arrests, the cases of Michele Anderson and Joseph McEnroe have wound though court simultaneously. But on Thursday, Senior Deputy Prosecutor James Konat asked Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell to sever the cases.

With no argument from the defense, the judge agreed.

 

[joe jones]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2015584780_mental_evaluation_ordered_for.html

second mental health evaluation for Michelle Anderson, and prosecutor removed from case,

seems to be taking forever to come to trial, it happened in 2007

 

[JoeFromLB]

Anderson ruled competent once again to stand trial.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2016278648_michele_anderson_ruled_compete.html

The two could face the death penalty if convicted. They will be tried separately. A trial date has not been set since several issues in the case are on appeal.

Mary Victoria Anderson, whose parents and brother were killed, attended Wednesday's hearing and said afterward that she's tired of the delays and wants the cases to go to trial. Pam Mantle, Erica Anderson's mother, also attended the hearing. Mantle has also voiced frustration that Anderson and McEnroe have not yet been tried.

 

[JoeFromLB]

It could be many months before this case goes to trial. They're arguing over who should be tried first!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016189256_carnation13m.html

"The crux of the issue is who is going to be tried first. This is a discrete, finite issue that well could delay the case for up to a year," said Senior Deputy Prosecutor Scott O'Toole, who is handling the case. "There is a total lack of a sense of urgency."

The Supreme Court is being asked to decide how the trial judge should determine who will be tried first, O'Toole said.

McEnroe had appealed to the state Supreme Court after prosecutors had said they intended to try his case first. Anderson joined the appeal later. Briefs in the appeal have been filed under seal because the attorneys say the documents contain mental-health information they don't want given to the prosecution or publicized in the media.

In his ruling, (Supreme Court Commissioner) Goff said the court will hear additional arguments on the issue Feb. 14. It could be months before the justices rule.

 

[joe jones]

whether either of them has mental health issues (and they may have) I don't think they reach the level that they impaired there reasoning or thought process on the day of the murders,

I think she wanted to kill her brother for a long time, her rage towards her parents was over them not taking her side, and maybe seeing the whole family doing well in there lives whilst she lived in a trailer on the family property, seems she was using drugs and had little money,

he must have been fed one hell of a story to go along with it

I do expect them both to allege many things at trial, from possible sexual/physical abuse by her father to being ill treated emotionally and maybe physically by other members of the family,