Baton Rouge Woman Receives Life Sentence

On Friday, December 16, a Baton Rouge girl was convicted of second-degree homicide for fatally poisoning her boyfriend. According to KLFY, the lady, named Meshell Hale, 54, was sentenced to life in jail on Tuesday.

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The Death Of Her Boyfriend And Husband

In 2015, Hale’s live-in boyfriend Damian Skipper, 41, died after what was initially presumed to be a coronary heart assault. Later, it was found that Skipper’s dying was resulting from consuming barium acetate.

According to the outlet, Hale was found to have bought the poison on-line a number of instances between 2015 and 2016.

Additionally, the lady has additionally been implicated within the 2016 dying of her estranged husband Arthur Noflin, 42. According to The Advocate, Noflin’s “charred remains” have been discovered within the backseat of his “fire-torched” pickup truck in March 2016. Because Noflin’s physique was so badly burned, Samantha Huber, a forensic pathologist for the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office, couldn’t decide his reason behind dying.

It’s a suspicious factor, however I simply can’t show it is a murder. I’ve different instances which are much like this the place it was suicide, so I’ve to be very, very cautious.

Authorities have been unable to rule Noflin’s dying as a murder.

The Aftermath Of Skipper & Noflin’s Death

After Skipper’s dying in 2015, Hale collected $10,000 in life insurance coverage funds. According to The Advocate, she alleged that she and Skipper have been married.

Authorities suspect that Hale allegedly killed her estranged husband, Noflin, the next 12 months to additionally lay declare to his $750,000 life insurance coverage coverage. Prosecutors famous that she was listed as the first beneficiary in Noflin’s coverage, additionally reported by the outlet.

When authorities knowledgeable Hale of Noflin’s dying in 2016, she sobbed “inconsolably.”

This simply can’t be. This simply can’t be.

Despite her emotional show, Hale by no means shed tears.

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A Bail Decision Has Family Members Outraged

Hale was convicted of the second-degree homicide of Damian Skipper, on Friday, December 16. Skipper and Noflin’s relations have been current on the nineteenth Judicial District Courthouse.

Skipper’s cousin Michael Durand shared his sentiments about Hale’s conviction

It simply exhibits you what God can do. It’s a blessing, and the district lawyer did loads of work. It’s not a lot about her getting locked up. It’s about elevating consciousness for different males on the market. You can save different lives.

However, a courtroom listening to befell on Tuesday, the place Hale’s lawyer’s proceeded to problem her conviction. To the shock of many, Judge Raymond Bigelow determined to grant a bond request for the lady.

Bigelow set the 54-year-old’s bail at $300,000. And revoked her passport, ordering her to stay on home arrest if she is launched.

Prosecutors instantly reacted, voicing that Hale could possibly be a hazard to the general public if she is set free on bond.

This was a clear trial. It’s going to be upheld on enchantment. There is not any purpose for her to depart that jail.

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Durand shared his response to the choose’s determination.

I actually don’t know how one can really feel. It was a shocker to present any person a compulsory life sentence after which flip round and provides them a bond. We can’t get Skipper again and it’s simply form of complicated proper now that they might do such a factor.

Noflin’s oldest sister, Carol Noflin Hertzock, additionally shared her sentiments.