![]() The guilty verdict for DeFranceschi's death, the first murder he was brought to trial for, was voided last year after the U.S. Supreme Court banned non-unanimous jury verdicts, local outlet The Advocate reports. While the new trial was slated for this month, it has now been moved to January after Sharpe’s lawyer Tommy Damico requested that doctors examine Sharpe’s mental capacity. The lawyer said he wants to make sure his client can understand what is going on in the courtroom. In a July motion, Damico said that "it is the belief that his condition has deteriorated to such a point as he can no longer assist counsel in defense of this case,” according to The Advocate. Sharpe’s defense also argued in 2018 he didn’t have the mental capacity to stand trial. He was then sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment until his competency was restored enough for his 2019 trial. Sharpe has already pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity regarding DeFranceschi’s death in the retrial. ![]() “I have picked out the most respectable and I have decided that yours is such,” wrote Gunness.When he was arrested, Sharpe allegedly claimed he killed Defranceschi and two others to meet a hunting “tags” quota issued to him by the government, The Advocate previously reported. ![]() In a letter to Carl Peterson of Wisconsin, she told him she had received as many as 50 responses to the ad. No replies by letter considered unless sender is willing to follow answer with personal visit. ![]() Twice widowed, Gunness began placing newspaper ads in Midwestern Norwegian newspapers seeking male suiters: “Personal - comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts in La Porte County, Indiana, desires to make the acquaintance of gentleman equally well provided, with view of joining fortunes. ![]() The owner of the house was Belle Gunness, who turned out to be one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.īelle was a robust Norwegian immigrant with four children who ably ran her farm - especially when it came to hog butchering. In addition to three bodies found inside the house - one of them headless - investigators found the remains of several more buried on the property. In May 1908, after fire destroyed a LaPorte farmhouse, police made a gruesome discovery. ![]()
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