This comes from newsday.com
An elementary school teacher who hacked her husband to death with a hatchet was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Before she was sentenced, Nancy Seaman read a statement in which she called the jury's guilty verdict "a miscarriage of justice" and a "tragic mistake." She said she would appeal.
Prosecutors said Seaman argued with her husband, Robert, last Mother's Day, went to Home Depot to buy a hatchet, returned to their home and killed him with it. Police found Robert Seaman's body in his wife's sport utility vehicle a few days later.
Nancy Seaman claimed that she bought the hatchet for yard work and that the couple got into an argument the next morning in which her husband of 31 years menaced her with a steak knife. She said she grabbed the nearest thing to defend herself.
"I fought like my life depended on it because it did," Seaman said Monday. "If I didn't kill him, he would have killed me. That's how it usually ends for abused women."
Prosecutors said she took elaborate steps to cover up her crime, wrapping the body in a tarp and painting the walls and bleaching the floor of the garage where the killing took place. She also shoplifted another hatchet and returned it to Home Depot with her original receipt.
The defense argued that Seaman suffered from battered-woman syndrome, which led her to cover up past abuse and not seek help
Teacher Gets Life for Hatchet Slaying
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Wow! I wonder where this happened and when?
What impresses me is that she shoplifted another hatchet and returned that one with the receipt!
That's going one step father than I could think of myself if I were to plan such a thing.
Doesn't she think the hatchet returning episode would draw attention to herself?
If she was planning on killing the man, she should have shoplifted the original hatchet!
She sounds very resourceful to me, Tracy, and maybe because of that she might have been a good elementary school treacher?
(I would put a smilie here but it doesn't seem appropriate.)
Thanks Laurie.
What impresses me is that she shoplifted another hatchet and returned that one with the receipt!
That's going one step father than I could think of myself if I were to plan such a thing.
Doesn't she think the hatchet returning episode would draw attention to herself?
If she was planning on killing the man, she should have shoplifted the original hatchet!
She sounds very resourceful to me, Tracy, and maybe because of that she might have been a good elementary school treacher?
(I would put a smilie here but it doesn't seem appropriate.)
Thanks Laurie.
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Women are usually identified by what they are versus who they are....
If I was to be run down by escaping zoo animals tomorrow the headline would read:
"Mother of 6 trampled by wild eyed Cheetah!"
Thayne's would read...
"Man dies at paws of escaping Cheetah!"
Kat--- I once knew a woman who, when decorating her Christmas and noticing a string was lights was burned out would go buy a new set and painstakingly put the burned out set in those plastic trays they come in and return them! These lights might have cost her $3.00. She undoubtedly drove to the store to return them in her Lincoln Town Car.
People love returning things...
If I was to be run down by escaping zoo animals tomorrow the headline would read:
"Mother of 6 trampled by wild eyed Cheetah!"
Thayne's would read...
"Man dies at paws of escaping Cheetah!"
Kat--- I once knew a woman who, when decorating her Christmas and noticing a string was lights was burned out would go buy a new set and painstakingly put the burned out set in those plastic trays they come in and return them! These lights might have cost her $3.00. She undoubtedly drove to the store to return them in her Lincoln Town Car.
People love returning things...