Posted on 11/22/2004 10:18:49 AM PST by beyond the sea
Rochester (AP) Police say a woman went to a Beaver County police station and admitted fatally shooting her husband after he threatened to kill their pets.
Elsie Kost was charged yesterday with homicide in the death of her husband Edward. Police say Edward Kost was killed November 16th but authorities didn't find out about the shooting until Elsie Kost confessed to shooting him and putting his body in cistern on their property.
Elsie Kost had told others her husband was away at a hunting camp. But New Sewickley police say she told her daughter about the shooting yesterday and they decided to go to police.
Kost told authorities she had an argument with her husband and that he pushed and shoved her. Police say Edward Kost had threatened to shoot some of the family pets.
Authorities recovered Edward Kost's body yesterday.
An autopsy was planned for sometime today
Maybe she was in the wrong, but he was in the cistern!
What about clothing?
postgazette.com:
A 60-year-old woman walked into a Beaver County police station yesterday and admitted shooting her husband and dumping his body in a cistern after he shoved her and threatened to kill their pets.
New Sewickley Township Police Chief John Daley issued a press release today saying Elsie Kost has been charged with homicide in the death of Edward Kost, 60.
Police said the killing occurred Tuesday and in the five days afterward Elsie Kost told people her husband had gone to a hunting camp.
Kost told her 25-year-old daughter, Melissa Kost, about the shooting yesterday, and together they went to the police station.
Police released the following account based on Elsie Kost's statement:
Kost had an argument with her husband on Tuesday during which her husband had pushed and shoved her inside their house on Cycle Drive. Edward Kost reportedly threatened to shoot some of the family's pets and he got a handgun. After he placed the loaded gun on the kitchen table, he walked outside.
Elsie Kost picked up the gun and followed her husband outside, where she shot him. Afterwards, Kost, who was home alone, placed her husband's body in a wheeled cart and moved him to a cistern at the rear of the property. She then placed the body in the cistern, where it remained until police recovered it Sunday afternoon.
To explain her husband's absence, Kost told other family members that he had gone to his hunting camp. However, on Sunday morning she told her daughter what had actually happened.
The body of Edward Kost was removed from the cistern, and an autopsy is scheduled for today.
Isn't that the truth..... I'm the head waiter.
;-)
wow! So if the wife slaps the husband he should shoot her too? My eyes have been opened wide by this thread! Unbelievable!
Not me, Dude! Pushing and threatening warrent being left for the pig (sorry, animal worshipers) that he is. He doesn't deserve to die. He just deserves to be alone. Animals do not have rights. God put them here for our use, and we as good stewards must use them and treat them with dignity and respect. (Rush's word's, not mine.)
Heree's hoping the little dog wasn't put there by a guy such as is in this article.
I dont believe it. I have noticed lately that many freepers seem to be "losing it" or maybe we have just been infiltrated by DU.
I dont care if he threatened to shoot the dam animals or not. Being murdered is not suitable punishment for threatning to kill a animal.
Just a guess.
This is from your profile.
Seems like that. IMHO, anyone who threatens to hurt or kill (or actually does hurt or kill) a defenseless animal (ALL animals are defenseless if compared to a human being, if for nothing else, because humans are supposed to reason and animals allegedly do not)is lacking something inside. Serial killers usually start torturing and killing animals and then they move on to do the same with humans.
Humans sometimes kill and torture for a so-called pleasure, animals kill for food, territory or the preservation of the species.
Humans abort their babies, and sometimes kill them after they are born. Animals kill to protect their babies.
A dog will give you unconditional love and loyalty, will not betray you, will stick with you even if you beat him or starve him of treat him like sh... a human being will drop you like a hot potato in similar circumntances.
Sounds like more than a threat to me. I think we'll find out later that there was quite a bit of history with these two.
What?
Are you a strict vegetarian?
That really Bugs me, rabbit hunter!!!!!
For God's Sake! This is like a PETA site! We are talking about a human being here. For all you know, the cat pissed in his shoe just one too many times.
I'm not saying that. I'd fire to protect another human if I thought it was necessary.
It's easy ... you just lead 'em a bit more.
It sounds like that because we've only heard her side.
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