Fort Lewis Soldier Convicted Of Murdering and Mutilating his teenage wife

dmp

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This case has kept my building restricted for the better part of last week; Blocked-off parking guards everywhere. From a bigger perspective employees having to park further out is NOTHING compared to what that girl's family must be going through :(

Joe Piek used to work in my Division.


http://www.komotv.com/stories/43540.htm

FORT LEWIS - An Army jury early Saturday convicted a soldier of brutally murdering and mutilating his teenage wife after deliberating past midnight, a Fort Lewis spokesman said.

The jury found Spc. Brandon Bare, 20, of Wilkesboro, N.C., guilty of premeditated murder and two counts of indecent acts for chopping his wife to death with a meat cleaver and desecrating her corpse.

The jury deliberated about four hours Friday night before reaching the verdict shortly after midnight, said Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek.

The same jury of five officers and three noncommissioned officers sentenced Bare Saturday evening to life in prison with the possibility of parole, Piek said. His rank was downgraded to private and Bare was dishonorably discharged, as well as forfeiting all pay and allowances and being formally reprimanded.

The verdict followed a five-day court martial.

Prosecutors portrayed him as a satanic, would-be serial killer who carefully plotted the time and place to slaughter his 18-year-old wife.

His defense lawyer said he was an emotionally and physically damaged combat veteran, angry over his wife's infidelity and the pending breakup of their marriage, who killed in a moment of rage.

Bare turned himself in the day of the killing and signed a confession with Army detectives. The issue in the trial was whether the slaying was premeditated. His defense lawyers had argued he should be found guilty of a lesser offense of unpremeditated murder or voluntary manslaughter.

The judge, Col. Mark Toole, limited the extent to which the defense could try to link the killing with any psychological or emotional problems Bare might have suffered from his combat service and injuries in Iraq.

The machine gunner with the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division was wounded in a March 24, 2005, grenade attack in Mosul. He was soon sent home to recover from internal ear injuries and later was enrolled in an intensive psychiatric group therapy program to cope with stress and his anger over his troubled marriage, witnesses said.

Toole ruled that testimony about Bares combat experiences was not relevant and might confuse the jury about the question at issue in the trial: that is, whether he formed a plan to kill his wife.

Toole also barred the defense from calling as a witness another soldier with whom Nabila Bare was allegedly having an affair. That soldier was court-martialed in an unrelated case last November and was convicted of indecent acts, given a bad conduct discharge and sentenced to six months in prison.
 
dmp said:
This case has kept my building restricted for the better part of last week; Blocked-off parking guards everywhere. From a bigger perspective employees having to park further out is NOTHING compared to what that girl's family must be going through :(

Joe Piek used to work in my Division.
How sad :(
 

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