From MSNBC.com
Nothing about the white-haired MacClellan suggested a capacity for violence. Which is why the accusation she now faces — that she bludgeoned her 84-year-old neighbor to death with a hammer — has come as such a shock to residents here.
Prosecutors are considering whether to make MacClellan one of the oldest U.S. defendants in modern times to stand trial on a capital murder charge.
MacClellan allegedly attacked Marguerite “Tuddy” Eyer with the claw end of a hammer Feb. 7. The victim, who was found in the kitchen of her home a few blocks away from the MacClellan house, told police that “Kathy Mc ... did it with a hammer,” according to court documents. She died 13 minutes after being rushed to the emergency room; the coroner said she had been struck in the head 37 times.
Prosecutors cite brutality
Police said they found Eyer’s wallet and checkbook in MacClellan’s house, and MacClellan’s face, hair and orange stirrup pants were covered in Eyer’s blood.
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Personality clash
Eyer was a spirited, opinionated woman who lived alone in the white trailer with red shutters she had called home for much of the last decade. She often drove her best friend of 30 years, Marguerite Braxmeyer, to lunch dates around town.
Braxmeyer, 83, said MacClellan and Eyer did not particularly like each other — their strong personalities clashed.
“If (Tuddy) liked you, she liked you. But she just didn’t take to Kathy,” Braxmeyer said. “I don’t think Kathy was crazy about her, either.”
But Braxmeyer said it was not as if MacClellan and Tuddy had feuded.
“I have no idea what could have gotten into her. It’s so incomprehensible to me,” Braxmeyer said. “She must have snapped and why, we’ll never know.”
(Well, I'd say so! Goodness!)
2 comments:
What's with bludgening to death lately? :( My friend Diana was killed by her husband in a similar manner.
Yeah- I'm sorry about that- I just can't get over the randomness of this one. This perfectly normal little old lady goes batshit and all- it's sooo David Lynchian- sometimes though, I forget that real people are involved. It's really fucked up and I don't get it.
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