Of course Greer doesn't have enough proof - he doesn't like taking evidence!
Greer is so legally blind that he can see a black six inch high letter from twenty feet. He can't possibly see videotapes or written documents. When he says he doesn't have enough proof, he means, HE CAN'T SEE BUT IF ANYONE FINDS OUT, HE MAY LOSE HIS CUSHY JOB.
The 44-year-old woman asked for a court's protection from her husband and cited domestic problems involving touching, demonic beliefs and biblical commandments.
As Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer looked over her request Thursday, he noted again that something was missing: The woman had listed no incidents of violence in her petition.
"I have read, reread and reread it," Greer said. "Unless I knew what had occurred, I don't think I would have done anything differently."
Helene Ball McGee died Wednesday afternoon, stabbed multiple times in her Dunedin home. Her husband, the man she tried but failed to get an injunction against, was charged with her murder.
Greer reviewed Mrs. McGee's request for an injunction Feb. 26. He said he denied the petition because she did not complain about any physical violence, which the law requires for a judge to issue a domestic violence injunction.
"I saw no violence," Greer said. "I saw no real fear of imminent violence."
Mrs. McGee wrote in her petition that her husband, Bobby Lane McGee, got angry because she refused to sleep with him. He told her she was "possessed by the devil because I will not follow the Bible and fulfill a wife's duties," she wrote. She complained that he touched her without permission and made her touch him.
"He wrote a letter stating he wants to change my name to Celene because Helene is from hell and must be destroyed," Mrs. McGee wrote. "I am afraid he will act on these threats and try to kill me because my name is Helene."
A court hearing on her injunction petition was scheduled March 5, but notice about the hearing was never served to her husband. It is not clear why the notice was not served. Another hearing was scheduled for April 2.
A deputy serving the notice for that hearing Wednesday heard sounds coming from Mrs. McGee's house at 2473 Treemont Way. He called for other deputies, who found her body inside.
Sheriff's spokesman Cal Dennie said McGee, 43, ran out the back door and submerged himself in a canal behind the house. He was wearing a camouflage outfit and two empty knife sheaths when a police dog found him.
Mrs. McGee was a nurse for the contractor that provides health care at the Pinellas County Jail. McGee worked recently as a cab driver.
Records show the couple married Jan. 17. It was at least his sixth marriage and her third.
Within weeks of the marriage, deputies were called to the house for family trouble. On Feb. 3, Mrs. McGee told deputies the couple had argued and he had written a threatening letter that accused her of sleeping with a detention deputy.
According to the deputy's report, Mrs. McGee said her husband wanted sex 10 to 20 times daily and told her she was not following the "commandments" of marriage.
Mrs. McGee also told deputies that McGee had burned her collection of angels, icons, crosses and other religious items.
Deputies returned to her house Feb. 26 after another argument. Photographs of her ex-husbands and family members had been torn from frames and burned in the fireplace, along with 30 pairs of her shoes. The house was ransacked, and telephone lines were cut.
That day, Mrs. McGee petitioned for an injunction to protect her from domestic violence. The next day, she filed for divorce.
On March 3, deputies stood by at her house while she got some clothes. Her 16-year-old daughter went to live with relatives. Mrs. McGee also moved.
Janice Hill, a sheriff's employee who monitors the jail's health care contract, said Mrs. McGee, who had worked at the jail since August, was staying temporarily with another nurse.
Mrs. McGee finished her nursing shift Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., Hill said, and apparently went home to get some clothing. She was found dead a short time later.
State records show McGee has been arrested once before. In 1993, he was fined after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge in Hernando County. The victim was Elahe Toutailepo, 18, his fifth wife.
He punched her and threatened to kill her during a marriage that lasted eight months, according to court records. McGee's fourth wife had been scheduled to testify in that trial as a victim of previous domestic violence.
Records show McGee's marriages lasted from eight months to six years. It could not be determined Thursday whether he has children. McGee's family did not respond to a request for an interview.
Kathi Gilbert, McGee's first wife, went to school with him at Largo High in Pinellas County. They married when she was 18 and he was 20. They were married two years.
"He decided he didn't want to be married," Gilbert said. "He was never violent. He was physically small and insecure, kind of had a lack of self-confidence."
She said he was the oldest of several boys in a religious family. He worked various jobs and once was an aerobics instructor.
Records show he changed his name in 1995 from Robert Elvin Lane Jr. to Bobby Lane McGee. He has lived in Clearwater, Hernando County and Hawaii.
McGee's Dunedin neighbors say they were afraid of him, especially after getting a seven-page letter that was stuck on their mailboxes about a week ago.
McGee hand-delivered the same letter, with a photograph of him and his wife arm in arm, to the Clearwater Times last week. Wearing camouflage pants and holding a backpack, he appeared agitated when he spoke briefly with a religion reporter. McGee handed her an envelope and told the reporter that his message was spreading fast, then he quickly left.
The first two pages of the letter, which is signed "Bobby and Celene McGee," are handwritten and dated Feb. 27. Calling his wife "a deciple (sic) of the anti-Christ," McGee alleged that "Hell-ene" told him she just had sex with a deputy.
"When she first told me that, it ripped my insides out," McGee wrote. "It's hard for me to send this out because I love my wife, but God will sometimes use Satan to his advantage."
The following five pages, some of them dated in January, are typewritten religious quotations from the Bible and other sources, interspersed with McGee's comments. He urged people to help him and his wife "serve God."
"My past is remembered against me no more, so in the spiritual since (sic), she is my very first wife," McGee wrote. "She is very special to me because I feel God has made her just for me."
- Times staff writers Janet Marshall, Maureen Byrne and Graham Brink contributed to this report.
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