04-18-2011, 04:09 PM
http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/...-insanity/
The mother-in-law charged in the kidnapping of an Ohio mother who was later found dead in a church septic system has changed her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
Sandra Inman, 46, was the one who told authorities where they could find 25-year-old Summer Inman’s bound, strangled body a week after she, her husband and her son allegedly abducted Summer outside the bank where she worked on March 22.
47-year-old William Inman and Summer’s husband, 26-year-old William Inman II, refused to cooperate with investigators, but Sandra Inman’s attorney negotiated a deal with undisclosed terms for providing information after their arrest.
The Inmans are currently charged with kidnapping, but no charges connected to Summer’s murder are expected until a grand jury meets later this month. All three initially pleaded not guilty, but Sandra Inman changed her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity at a pretrial hearing last Tuesday.
Her attorney did not comment on the reason for the change.
Summer and William Inman II were in the middle of bitter divorce and child custody proceedings when she was abducted. Court documents she filed last year show that she was frightened of her husband, who she claimed had threatened to kill her if she tried to leave with their two children.
In police documents released last week, statements from an inmate housed in the same area as the older William Inman indicate that he was afraid his wife would give up information that could incriminate them all. “I really worried my wife might say something,” Inman allegedly told the inmate, also stating cryptically that he wished he had not “helped my son out.” In another statement, Inman is quoted by the inmate as saying that the police would never find Summer’s body “as long as my boy and wife stay strong.”
Following Sandra Inman’s change of plea, the court ordered an evaluation of her mental condition at the time of the kidnapping. The Inmans are all being held on $1 million bond in Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail.
The mother-in-law charged in the kidnapping of an Ohio mother who was later found dead in a church septic system has changed her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity.
Sandra Inman, 46, was the one who told authorities where they could find 25-year-old Summer Inman’s bound, strangled body a week after she, her husband and her son allegedly abducted Summer outside the bank where she worked on March 22.
47-year-old William Inman and Summer’s husband, 26-year-old William Inman II, refused to cooperate with investigators, but Sandra Inman’s attorney negotiated a deal with undisclosed terms for providing information after their arrest.
The Inmans are currently charged with kidnapping, but no charges connected to Summer’s murder are expected until a grand jury meets later this month. All three initially pleaded not guilty, but Sandra Inman changed her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity at a pretrial hearing last Tuesday.
Her attorney did not comment on the reason for the change.
Summer and William Inman II were in the middle of bitter divorce and child custody proceedings when she was abducted. Court documents she filed last year show that she was frightened of her husband, who she claimed had threatened to kill her if she tried to leave with their two children.
In police documents released last week, statements from an inmate housed in the same area as the older William Inman indicate that he was afraid his wife would give up information that could incriminate them all. “I really worried my wife might say something,” Inman allegedly told the inmate, also stating cryptically that he wished he had not “helped my son out.” In another statement, Inman is quoted by the inmate as saying that the police would never find Summer’s body “as long as my boy and wife stay strong.”
Following Sandra Inman’s change of plea, the court ordered an evaluation of her mental condition at the time of the kidnapping. The Inmans are all being held on $1 million bond in Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail.