4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Discretion is advised. |
0:16.0 | This is 10-minute murder. |
0:28.6 | Kenneth County met Sheila LeBarre in 2006 through a personal ad posted in the newspaper. |
0:40.3 | Now if you're younger than a certain age, that one sentence can be pretty confusing. |
0:44.3 | Before Tinder and Bumble and Hinge, people met people through newspaper personal ads, apparently. |
0:52.3 | Their first date was on Valentine's Day, which is pretty bold. |
0:57.3 | And only a few days later, Sheila asked Kenneth to move in with her, which he accepted. |
1:03.0 | At 24 years old, Kenneth was more than 20 years younger than Sheila. He was known to have a low |
1:09.2 | IQ that made him behave in a way that his family described |
1:12.7 | as childlike. He didn't question why Sheila had asked him to move in so quickly with her. Instead, |
1:19.4 | he was excited to start a new life with the older woman he was smitten with. Kenneth had always |
1:24.6 | been a trusting guy, someone who saw the best in everyone, and that included |
1:28.8 | Sheila. Sheila did not share Kenneth's optimism. She spent her childhood being abused both physically |
1:36.1 | and sexually by her father and his friends, and as an adult, she struggled to have normal |
1:41.5 | relationships with others. She had been married and divorced several times, |
1:45.9 | and when her most recent, wealthy partner suddenly died, suspiciously, |
1:51.2 | Sheila had inherited his farm in New Hampshire, |
1:53.9 | the same farm where she'd invited Kenneth to live with her. |
1:57.3 | The last time Kenneth was ever seen alive, |
2:00.6 | he was in a wheelchair, being pushed through a nearby Walmart by Sheila. |
2:05.8 | The store's employees who had met the couple before noticed that Kenneth was very pale and appeared to be ill |
2:12.4 | and that he had a large amount of bruises and cuts on his arms, hands, and face. |
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