Death Penalty Sought In Northern Kentucky Murder Case

Posted: Dec 3, 2009 11:32 AM
Updated: Dec 3, 2009 12:33 PM

BURLINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Prosecutors in Northern Kentucky say they'll seek the death penalty in the murder of a mathematician who was retired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
     
The Kentucky Enquirer reported a prosecutor told a judge in Burlington on Thursday she intends to ask for capital punishment in the trial of Willa Blanc.
     
Blanc, a former cleaning woman, is charged in the death of Walter Sartory, a 73-year-old reclusive millionaire. Blanc and her adult son Louis Wilkinson are charged with complicity to murder, kidnapping, theft and abusing a corpse. Prosecutors haven't decided on a capital request in Wilkinson's case.
     
Sartory's body was found burned in a field outside Indianapolis in March.
     
After his death, several of Sartory's investments were transferred to Blanc's name.
    
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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    lucky at Dec 3rd 2009 12:12 PM

    For the "love of money" is the root of all evil.

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