Washington woman convicted in saw attack on husband
EVERETT, Wash. – A Washington state woman accused of trying to decapitate her sleeping husband with an electric saw was convicted Thursday of attempted murder.
Jurors needed only about three hours to reach a verdict in the trial of Renee Bishop-McKean of Everett. They also convicted the 44-year-old woman of first-degree assault for hitting the man in the head with a hatchet and mallet.
The jury was told the noise of the saw woke the victim last Oct. 14 and he fought his wife off. He was treated for cuts and scrapes.
Bishop-McKean told police an attacker must have entered the home through an open window, found the saw and attacked her husband. Deputy Prosecutor Paul Stern noted the window was locked so it would only open a few inches. He called the woman's theory the "Tinkerbell did this" defense.
The woman, who did not testify, shook her head in disagreement when the verdicts were announced.
Bishop-McKean faces at least 15 years in prison at sentencing set for Oct. 4.
The couple had been living apart but jurors were told the woman invited her husband over and told him to sleep on a mattress that she had wrapped in plastic, then covered with normal sheets.
Police found evidence that Bishop-McKean had purchased the saw, hatchet and mallet shortly before the attack and stockpiled bleach and a supply of large garbage bags.
"You don't need to be concerned about the `why,"' Stern said in closing arguments Thursday. "You care about the `who."'
Defense lawyer Ken Lee said prosecutors couldn't explain what happened or prove that his client was responsible. He offered three theories, including the mysterious intruder scenario suggested by Bishop-McKean.
Lee also suggested the victim might have hurt himself and blamed his wife. The defense lawyer acknowledged that option was "right out of Alfred Hitchcock."
Finally, Lee said the only other possibility was that Bishop-McKean was responsible for the attack but if so, the evidence suggests "a very half-hearted attempt" to kill.
The Daily Herald of Everett reports that tests on the tools showed DNA from both Bishop-McKean and her husband, with trace amounts from someone else. Jurors were told the trace amount likely came from someone who handled the saw at the store before its purchase.
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23 comments:
It's for that very reason I own a baseball bat! Nuts exists that wish to do damage but aren't smart enough.
Ewwww.... Poor devil.
Crazy woman. Man oh man, I bet it would be interesting to read about their marriage.
Fla Anon
Sounds like two winners. Husband agrees to sleep over at estranged wife's house on mattress covered in plastic - no questions asked. Wife picks loud power tool as most feasible option to kill sleeping husband.
Odd that she was already rid of him, and yet invited him over to saw his head off.
It's really not funny, but I couldn't help laughing at your comment.
Yeah. Really odd. He should have realized something wasn't kosher when he
heard the krinkling noises and felt the slippery sliding of the plastic on the
mattress while he was lying on it, sliding around on the sheets. he he. The idiot.
I bet she had promised him a little nookie to get him there, then probably followed
through and waited until he was asleep before she got up and turned on the power
saw. Yeah, two real winners there. Makes sense to me Rob. Fla Anon
I have so many comments, I'm logging off now
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2016924692_apwaassaultpreparation1stldwritethru.html
From link above:
Police recovered from the home a Sawzall, a mallet and a hatchet that was wet from apparent washing, documents show. All of the items appeared new and reportedly didn't belong to the husband.
When the man returned home the next morning, he realized there were plastic sheets underneath the normal bedsheets, he told police. That's what had crinkled when he went to bed.
He also found eight aluminum roasting pans under the kitchen sink. He told police that he usually used only one pan to make Thanksgiving dinner, so he didn't know why there were so many in the house.
The man told police he recently had purchased white garbage bags, so he was surprised to find two boxes of large, black garbage bags under the sink.http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2016924692_apwaassaultpreparation1stldwritethru.html
On a return visit to the home, police found several gallons of bleach on top of the refrigerator, under the kitchen sink and under the bathroom sink, court papers show.
The man told police that the family typically keeps only one bottle of bleach in the home.
--I immediately checked to make sure this article was not coming from The Onion. I think she was planning on dismembering him and cooking him? Eight aluminum roasting pans!!! The crinkly noise the husband heard when going to bed was the plastic sheeting underneath the bed sheets. --She must have gotten this from a Dexter episode. She even had Plan B - the Hatchet, and Plan C - the Mallet. She was ahead of the plane for a while there, but none of them proved successful. Plan D - an intruder came in from her daughter's room and she was fighting him off when her husband awoke to the sound of the Sawzill next to his neck.
This sounds like a Spy vs Spy comic strip.
The man is lucky to have survived. I'm sure Bishop-McKean kicks herself for using a weapon her estranged husband could hear coming.
On a side note, IMO, Bishop-McKean looks like a man in the midst of trans-gendering. I'm serious.
You might have a point there, Nic. For sure, he's lucky to be alive!
Sounds to me like this hubby was the chief cook and bottle washer in
that home, doing all the cleaning and everything else. No wonder he
noticed her fresh (rather large!) supply of garbage bags and clorox.
Dang, he even cooked the thanksgiving dinner. I'd have dumped her butt
a long time ago, only, maybe he stayed for the kids; or maybe he was a
house husband and she was the bread winner?
Wonder what her chores were? Whatever. She hated his guts and that's
what it boils down too. Her attorney Lee suggests that she made a
"very half hearted attempt"? Now that's a good one! Fla Anon
If anyone finds her statement, please post.
Here ya go!---
Police Chief: Tell me Ms. McKean, what happened?
McKean: It was a normal night. All originally went well as planned. We got ready for bed. I told him that I wanted to freshen up a little bit before climbing in bed. I told him to go ahead and get some rest in bed while I cleaned up and that I would wake him to snuzzle up later. He asked me why the sheets were crinkly. I recently started putting plastic sheeting on the bed because I have had some recent bouts with an overactive bladder, but I didn’t want him to know this so I told him it was the sound of new bed sheets. I went to the bathroom and cleaned myself up a bit, got some milk, read a magazine in the living room, left the living room and went to the bedroom, I climbed into the bed.
Police Chief: So what happened next?
McKean: Well, like I said earlier to the previous officer, my husband must have been having a nightmare. I happened to be fending off an intruder that must have come in through the bedroom, no my daughter’s bedroom window. I was able to wrestle the Sawzill from his hands just as he woke. The person ran off. My husband thought I was trying to attack him. I was merely trying to shut the machine off so I could hear what he was saying better.
Police Chief: Why did he say you attacked him with a hatchet and a mallet too?
McKean: Oh, that’s because the intruder must have still been in the house. You think I did it don’t you?
Police Chief: You tell me Mrs. McKean.
McKean: You think I am a butcher? I tell you, I have never been able to butcher anything in my life! I would never hurt my husband. I am very, very, very, very much in love with my husband. I was a great wife! 1,500,000% did not!
Police Chief: What does the intruder look like?
McKean: I have no clue! He’s wearing a mas—I, I, I, I, I, I, just, I tried, wanted to, I am not able to recall any more. Um, uh, is he still alive?
PS - Just kidding! I couldn't resist.
This is from my neck of the woods and I have been following it from the beginning. She had also lined her SUV with plastic sheeting, and after the sazall didn't work, she went after him with a hatchet and a mallet. If I recall correctly, she claimed that in the dark, she thought he was the intruder.
I give her, she did a lot of preventive work to cut down on the clean-up after. I wish I thought that way more often.
This seems odd. Was his bed in the kitchen?
Brett Bishop went to sleep first that night, but awoke to the sound of an electric saw revving above him. When he awoke, Bishop-McKean was standing over him, according to the affidavit.
"Renee came at me in the kitchen with the Sawzall [saw] raised up, we had a struggle over it. She kept pulling the trigger to make it run, so I reached out and pulled the battery out of it," he said in court, according to KOMO.
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=17271230
I'm going to check out ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV. That's where the statement above came from.
That is one ugly woman.
off topic.
As Peter has sai before you cannot unlearn Statement Analysis and as i have said once learned it cannot be turned off.
Here is a case in point.
I was listening to tv as i catnapped and an advert for a stock cube came on.
It was the usual drone blah blah so beloved of adverts in general when 4 words caught my attention and made me go huh?
The four words were Made with real ingredients
My initial reaction was how else would they make the cubes duh, imaginary ingredients?
I got to thinking about not only what was said but also what was not said.
Made with real ingredients, for a beef stock cube.
The wording is designed to lead the viewer to think it is made with wholessome, natural ingredients including lots of beef.
However, they can't say so as it isn't.
Hence the what isn't said.
Advertisers hate me (i do surveys) when a celeb advertises a product, my reaction isn't "i must buy it so i too can be like them", my reaction is "i wonder what they really use closely followed by how much did they get paid".
Next time ads come on tv and radio, close your eyes and listen to what is being said, you will be surprised :)
Sadly now, every time the ad comes on my stupidometer goes off.
Peter is right, you can't unlearn it and i was right in that you can't turn it off.
Dang that statement Analysis.
Curse you Peter.
~ waves my fist theatrically~
Brett and Renee were married in 2002 and have two children, a boy and a girl, under the age of 10.
Renee has two prior felony convictions from California in 2001 when she and Brett had an argument and she fired a gun in their apartment. Brett told police he lives in fear of Renee.
http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-everett-woman-attacks-sleeping-husband-with-electric-saw-20111017,0,2263527.story
Scary. I wonder where the kids were.
This is a crazy story. Did she think her husband wasn't going to wake up when she came at him with an electric saw? They are pretty loud. Although, I don't know what size saw this was to compare but my ex used an electric (battery) saw to cut up wood for our wood stove and it was dang loud. I hated the noise. So unless she had drugged him first, no way would he have slept thru that.
Guess she wasn't thinking clearly or she just wanted to get his attention lol
There is another story that Nancy Grace was following and it's gross. The husband, a chef, killed his wife and then cooked her in a boiling pot to get rid of the body. Sick, twisted, disgusting and evil. If you don't want your spouse or significant other any longer, break up ! Get a divorce.
She was in the mental hospital prior to this event.
A sawzall,eh? I've had large bones show up in my yard and at first I thought it may have been human but dismissed that thought as it was waaaay tooooooo creepy. Then, not too long ago, I found one that was well aged and looked as if it had been in peat or something.It's the only one the dog hasn't consumed or hidden.
Yes, BostonLady, the chef supposedly killed his wife and "slow-cooked" her for four days, then threw the contents out as "kitchen waste." He could've invited some cannibals over; after four days of slow cooking, I'm sure she'd be barbecue-tender.
Then again, he could've just gotten a divorce. Sheesh.
Teens charged in Sheboygan Falls murder
Updated: Friday, 21 Sep 2012, 5:13 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 21 Sep 2012, 12:46 PM CDT
SHEBOYGAN - Gruesome new details in how a 78-year-old woman was killed inside her Sheboygan County home.
The suspects are 13 years old. And one of them is the victim's great-grandson.
And the suspects were charged in court Friday for the Sheboygan Falls incident.
Usually, FOX 11 does not identify suspects who are juveniles, but in this case they have been charged in adult court.
Youthful and emotionless 13-year-olds Antonio Barbeau and his friend Nathan Paape go before a Sheboygan County court commissioner.
The two are accused of a plot against Barbeau's great-grandmother, 78-year-old Barbara Olson.
"According to both statements they intended to kill her and rob her money," said Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco.
DeCecco says the two boys were driven to Olson's house Sheboygan Falls house by Paape's mother and dropped off.
Prosecutors say the mother did not notice a hatchet and hammer concealed by the boys.
Prosecutors say they then made their way inside an unlocked door.
"She discovered them. And when they went to call the mother of the great-grandson he struck her in the back of the head with the blunt end of a hatchet," said DeCecco.
According to DeCecco, Olson pleaded for her life, and was struck twice by a hammer held by Paape, while Barbeau turned his hatchet around.
Prosecutors say the boys then bought cleaning wipes, tried to clean up the car, and left jewelry in the back seat.
With keys in the car, prosecutors say the boys were hoping someone would steal it, and be pinned with the crime.
They then both walked to their own homes, and were picked up two days later by police.
"Mr. Barbeau hit her with the blade end of the hatchet and struck her with such force that it stuck in her skull and required the two of them to pull it out," said DeCecco.
Unable to load Olson into the trunk of her car, prosecutors say the boys left her, and stole the vehicle.
Prosecutors say they drove to a Sheboygan bowling alley, parked and walked to get pizza.
"I don't understand how anyone much less a 13-year-old can be so unfeeling about someone to after they kill go to have a pizza," said DeCecco.
The suspects' bonds were set at $1 million cash Friday.
Both remain in custody.
Barbeau's defense attorney says he will try to have the case moved to juvenile court.
Peter you can contact the court if the docs are in the court record. see this page for info- http://dw.courts.wa.gov/index.cfm?fa=home.casesummary&crt_itl_nu=S31&casenumber=11-1-02466-5&searchtype=sName&token=1FB607F7AC9EBBCF6B93B60E8AF9A9E7&dt=0E76C9D389BEB9F90AC3DCC5EB02DC8B&courtClassCode=S&casekey=157488674&courtname=SNOHOMISH%20SUPERIOR
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