Sheila LaBarre
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July 4, 1958
Sheila LaBarre | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sheila Kay Bailey July 4, 1958 Fort Payne, Alabama, US |
| Conviction | First degree murder (2 counts) |
| Criminal penalty | Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole |
| Details | |
| Victims | 2–4 |
Span of crimes | 2004–2006 |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Hampshire |
Date apprehended | April 2, 2006 |
Sheila LaBarre (born Sheila Kay Bailey on July 4, 1958) is an American murderer and possible serial killer. She was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences, with no prospect of parole after being convicted of killing two men, Kenneth Countie and Michael Deloge, in Epping, New Hampshire. At the time of the crimes, LaBarre lived in Epping (Rockingham County) on a farm.
She regularly enticed younger men to her farm, where she would torture and control them.
At her trial she claimed she was an angel, sent by God to punish pedophiles.[1] She accused the two men she killed of being pedophiles.[2]
LaBarre was born Sheila Kaye Bailey in Alabama in 1958. She has a sister, Lynn Noojin. She had a difficult, abusive upbringing, as she, her sister and mother were sexually, physically, and verbally abused by her alcoholic father, and he would bring other men over to partake in sexually assaulting Sheila.[3][4] She graduated from Fort Payne High School in 1976.[5]
After marrying Ronnie Jennings, she was known as Sheila Bailey Jennings. She wanted to divorce Ronnie, but he refused to divorce her for some time.[5] In the early 1980s, LaBarre was held in a psychiatric facility after attempting suicide. Noojin testified that her sister had told her while in the mental hospital, an orderly tried to rape her .[6]
She married John Baxter in January 1981.[7]
LaBarre moved from Fort Payne to Epping, New Hampshire, in 1987 after answering a personal ad placed by Wilfred "Bill" LaBarre, a chiropractor. She never legally married Bill LaBarre, but took his last name ("Sheila LaBarre"), and they lived together from 1987 until his death at age 74 in 2000.[8][9] Bill LaBarre had been married twice before.[10] However, Sheila LaBarre married a Jamaican citizen named Wayne Ennis in York, Maine, on August 22, 1995.[8][11] She then divorced Ennis in 1996.[12] In April 1997, Sheila LaBarre got a restraining order against Ennis after he had allegedly repeatedly assaulted her.[12]
After Bill's death, Sheila LaBarre inherited his farm. She said she was his common-law wife. His children from a previous relationship attempted to contest the will to get money and property, but were informed they had a 50/50 chance of success and would have to pay $50,000 upfront.[13] After LaBarre's arrest there was speculation that she may have killed Bill,[14][15] an allegation which LaBarre has denied.[16]