I read the article, and a good lawyer ought to be able to argue this down because a) infidelity is not a crime, and b) her face already paid pretty well.
Even if they can prove she removed the head, unless it was done cleanly and/or she was beaten after she did that, it looks like someone wanted her to do or stop doing something.
They’re obviously not Republicans, or it would have been in the headline.
I don’t know much about Maine demographics, but I have read that the French minority in Maine was historically very poor, and a very large part of the criminal underclass of an otherwise safe and heterogeneous state. I don’t know if Barron is ethnically French but Amerault definitely is.