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78-Year-Old Woman Indicted in Love Triangle Killing
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ^
| August 16, 2005
| Anon
Posted on 08/17/2005 3:19:38 AM PDT by Pharmboy
ATLANTA (AP) -- A 78-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on charges she shot her 85-year-old ex-beau to death as he read the newspaper in a senior citizens home.
Lena Sims Driskell was charged with murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Herman Winslow was slain June 10.
Police said Driskell was angry that her yearlong romance with Winslow had ended and he was seeing another woman. She allegedly shot Winslow four times with an antique handgun at the Hightower Manor retirement home in southwest Atlanta, where the two lived.
''I did it and I'd do it again!'' she allegedly told officers.
The woman's attorney, Deborah Poole, said her client was released on bail Thursday and is staying with her granddaughter. Poole said her client is ''very ill,'' but would not elaborate on her specific medical condition.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: geriatricpassion; lovetriangle; murder
Antique woman shoots antiques man with antique handgun. Ya don't see this everyday...
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:19:39 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
At 85, there are worse ways to die.
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:21:22 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
...and for worse reasons.
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:22:40 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
To: Pharmboy
I never got the whole zeitgeist of Thug-life.
I guess I'ma a luddite that way ;>
To: Pharmboy
There's no fool like an old fool.
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:37:06 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
To: Pharmboy
A 78-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on charges she shot her 85-year-old ex-beau to death as he read the newspaper She was a crazy conservative and old Herman was reading the New York Times and had the Washington Post on his lap.
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:41:13 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
To: cjshapi
To be killed at 85 by a jealous lover. Whata way ta go!
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:47:28 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
To: Pharmboy
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
To: Pharmboy
he went for the one wearing the teddy
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posted on
08/17/2005 3:53:42 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:07:26 AM PDT
by
ZOOKER
( <== I'm with Stupid...)
To: Roy Tucker
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
EXACTLY what I was thinking!
To: Pharmboy
''I did it and I'd do it again!'' she allegedly told officers.
** I guess she was a little upset.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:19:39 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(I'm having the best day ever.)
To: Pharmboy
One of "Hell's Grannies" from Monty Python.
To: Pharmboy
with an antique handgun well, that only makes sense
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:27:10 AM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, "To Serve Man", it's... it's a cookbook!)
To: Izzy Dunne; Pharmboy
You two are asking for it. You know that.
Incoming!
Fortunately, most of them are still asleep.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:29:30 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
To: Junior
I remember this story. At 78 it's gonna be difficult to adjust to being Big Betty's prison b!tch.
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posted on
08/17/2005 4:58:23 AM PDT
by
cjshapi
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