BYU professor Kay Mortensen murdered

[byu71]

I posted about a double murder of two ward members that occurred within walking distance of our house shortly before we moved here. It was featured on a 48 Hours broadcast a while back. Mrs. PAC's first service project in our new ward was to help the RS move stuff out of the victims' home.

I remember that show. Didn't the son's wife get tired of his gambling and carrying on? I remember thinking, I wish they would say she was active and he wasn't.

[clackamascoug]

Told it before... bears/bares/bairs repeating. On my my mission we had a branch member kill his BIL and confess it from the pulpit during F&T meeting. Stabbed him 68 times.

[byu71]

Told it before... bears/bares/bairs repeating. On my my mission we had a branch member kill his BIL and confess it from the pulpit during F&T meeting. Stabbed him 68 times.

WOW. I am sure I would prefer hearing a child say "they know beyond a shadow of a doubt" than hear that at F&T meeting.

[Pelado]

My wife and I were commenting on the same thing. A bunch of them lately. Off the top of my head:

3) Young LDS attorney in Boise cheating on his wife killed by lover's husband

I met this guy, who worked with one of my clients. He told me about his marketing plan, heavily involving his new assistant/paralegal. They apparently ended up working late together. A lot. And then he was shot to death in a Walgreen's parking lot about 2 miles from my house.

I was in the same ward as his wife growing up.

[Harry Tic]

Told it before... bears/bares/bairs repeating. On my my mission we had a branch member kill his BIL and confess it from the pulpit during F&T meeting. Stabbed him 68 times.

Sounds like he had taken D&C 59:12 to heart. And, come on, it's not like we don't all have things in our life that we need to repent of. Although 68 times is probably excessive.

[Coach McGuirk]

Sounds like he had taken D&C 59:12 to heart. And, come on, it's not like we don't all have things in our life that we need to repent of. Although 68 times is probably excessive.

it's not 70*7, so all good.

[Omaha 680]

Mark Hacking
Josh Powell

Greg Peterson. Although he didn't kill anyone that we know of.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I met this guy, who worked with one of my clients. He told me about his marketing plan, heavily involving his new assistant/paralegal. They apparently ended up working late together. A lot. And then he was shot to death in a Walgreen's parking lot about 2 miles from my house.

I was in the same ward as his wife growing up.

That guy was a real sleaze ball. His paralegal's husband found out about the affair and her LDS boss/lover gave her a phone call and they hooked up at the Walgreens and drove off somewhere to have sex in his truck. Really? That is your first reaction to being discovered? As you can imagine, the husband wasn't too happy about it when he found them at the Walgreens. So they get into a scuffle and the LDS guy is shot. Husband claims it was self defense. The LDS guy's wife gets a phone call from the cops that night. In one moment she finds out that A.) her husband is having an affair, and B.) her husband is dead. Really felt sorry for her. They had five young kids. I can't imagine what he saw in that paralegal. His wife was far better looking and a much better person. The paralegal is in prison now for embezzling a massive amount of cash from a prior law firm.

[Indy Coug]

Here's a post from a very old thread about my former home teachee's murder.

http://www.cougarstadium.com/showthr...l=1#post154061

[SoCalCoug]

My wife and I were commenting on the same thing. A bunch of them lately. Off the top of my head:

1) Jodi Arias
2) Teenage girl killing a classmate with friend in Wendover
3) Young LDS attorney in Boise cheating on his wife killed by lover's husband
4) Psycho returned missionary armored car driver killer on FBI top ten
5) Kay Mortenson case
6) Story about christmas-time attack at cabin in mountains near Kamas.
7) Fake doctor in PG who poisoned his wife. Daughters convinced cops to investigate.

Did I miss any?

Wasn't the guy who claimed he was sleepwalking when he killed his wife LDS?

[Pelado]

That guy was a real sleaze ball. His paralegal's husband found out about the affair and her LDS boss/lover gave her a phone call and they hooked up at the Walgreens and drove off somewhere to have sex in his truck. Really? That is your first reaction to being discovered? As you can imagine, the husband wasn't too happy about it when he found them at the Walgreens. So they get into a scuffle and the LDS guy is shot. Husband claims it was self defense. The LDS guy's wife gets a phone call from the cops that night. In one moment she finds out that A.) her husband is having an affair, and B.) her husband is dead. Really felt sorry for her. They had five young kids. I can't imagine what he saw in that paralegal. His wife was far better looking and a much better person. The paralegal is in prison now for embezzling a massive amount of cash from a prior law firm.

No argument here.

[Jeff Lebowski]

My wife and I were commenting on the same thing. A bunch of them lately. Off the top of my head:

1) Jodi Arias
2) Teenage girl killing a classmate with friend in Wendover
3) Young LDS attorney in Boise cheating on his wife killed by lover's husband
4) Psycho returned missionary armored car driver killer on FBI top ten
5) Kay Mortenson case
6) Story about christmas-time attack at cabin in mountains near Kamas.
7) Fake doctor in PG who poisoned his wife. Daughters convinced cops to investigate.

Did I miss any?

Another week, another Mormon murder mystery featured on Dateline. This week was a 2-hr episode on a single LDS mother of five from Deer Park, Washington. Very interesting case.

[Vic Vega]

Wasn't the guy who claimed he was sleepwalking when he killed his wife LDS?

Woah. This was a clear cut murder.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1998-...ep-disorder/5/

[Color Me Badd Fan]

That guy was a real sleaze ball. His paralegal's husband found out about the affair and her LDS boss/lover gave her a phone call and they hooked up at the Walgreens and drove off somewhere to have sex in his truck. Really? That is your first reaction to being discovered? As you can imagine, the husband wasn't too happy about it when he found them at the Walgreens. So they get into a scuffle and the LDS guy is shot. Husband claims it was self defense. The LDS guy's wife gets a phone call from the cops that night. In one moment she finds out that A.) her husband is having an affair, and B.) her husband is dead. Really felt sorry for her. They had five young kids. I can't imagine what he saw in that paralegal. His wife was far better looking and a much better person. The paralegal is in prison now for embezzling a massive amount of cash from a prior law firm.

That may be manslaughter as opposed to murder. There are clear cut crime of passion cases where the man comes home, finds his wife in bed and then immediately proceeds to murder the other man and/or the wife. In this case it appears as if he was hunting them down, but a fight ensued before the murder happened. He may not have planned to murder the guy when he was hunting them down and that state of mind is the key.

But talk about selling everything out for a mess of porridge.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Another week, another Mormon murder mystery featured on Dateline. This week was a 2-hr episode on a single LDS mother of five from Deer Park, Washington. Very interesting case.

A few more details on this one. They went after this woman's ex-husband who lived nearby in spite of what seemed to be rather limited evidence. Her family (sister, brother, mother) supported the prosecution but all five kids (ages 10-22) supported their dad. Turns out that church-going mom (dad was inactive) loved to cruise LDS-themed and other online dating sites and hook up with men for sexual encounters. Not just occasionally, but all the time. Cops only checked out a couple of these leads. The defense team wanted to show her secret life (implying that the cops ignored a huge set of likely suspects) but the judge would not allow it.