Melissa Jenkins, young mom murdered, VT.

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This was a fucked up crime. The teacher had a black boyfriend, but they split up shortly after the baby was born, not sure how the support thing was working, but he doesn't have custody.

The crime was done by a couple, supposedly married. He plowed her driveway a couple years ago, and they had one date where he took her out, but she found him creepy, and I guess he became obsessed.

The couple that killed her called her and said they were having car trouble. She called a friend (not sure who, another bf?) to let them know she was going to help someone that had plowed her driveway a couple years ago to keep an eye out in case anything "happened".

Here are the perps (Allen and Patricia Prue) :



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A man charged with the bizarre killing of a popular prep school teacher lived a hardscrabble though seemingly harmless life with his family, but little was known about the woman he married last year, shocked residents of northeastern Vermont said Thursday.

The body of Melissa Jenkins, a 33-year-old science teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy, was found Monday in the Connecticut River. Authorities say Allen and Patricia Prue lured her from her home with a ruse about a broken-down car and killed her. Jenkins' 2-year-old son had been found Sunday in her idling SUV.

The couple had been riding around Sunday when Allen Prue got the idea "to get a girl," a police affidavit said. They have not elaborated, and the trickle of information has the close-knit residents of northeastern Vermont talking and wondering about the motive.

Neighbor Jessica Fontecha said Allen Prue, 30, used to shovel snow and mow the lawn for her elderly parents without being asked. She called him when her lawn mower broke and he fixed it. Last winter, he drove her to her home in a snowstorm when she couldn't get up the slippery road.

"It's easy to say `these horrible people,' but they weren't horrible people," Fontecha said.

But once Allen married Patricia last year, Fontecha said, "we didn't see much of him."

Patricia Prue's ex-husband said that Prue, whom he met online, had requested a restraining order on him but that they hadn't talked in a couple of years.

Jeffrey Witkoff, of Littleton, Colo., said she called him once repeatedly and he didn't answer. When he called her back, she asked why he was calling, he said.

The Vermont court from which Prue, 33, reportedly sought a restraining order would not confirm whether one was in the works. Marc Eagle, a lawyer for Prue, said he hadn't yet met with her.

The couple pleaded not guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder and unauthorized burial or removal of a dead body. They are being held without bail, and more charges are possible, police said.

Dan Maguire, Allen Prue's lawyer, called the case a tragedy.

"As with all Vermonters, my heart goes out to Ms. Jenkins' family and friends," Maguire said. "We all cherish the peaceful and tranquil life, which we have here in Vermont and are shocked when that peace is broken."

The Prues live with Allen's mother, a widow, in the same run-down mobile home in Waterford where he grew up. The town had been working with the Prues to clean up their property, which was littered with metal scrap, a pile of old tires, bags of garbage and a camper.

On Thursday, five state police vehicles were parked in front of the house, which was still adorned with Christmas decorations.

"They've had hard times, but they weren't a family of bad news," said Waterford Town Clerk Joanne Jurentkuff.

Allen Prue had plowed Jenkins' driveway and asked her out a couple of times, police said. She told a friend that she felt uncomfortable around him and later had him stop plowing, but that he showed up drunk at her home in autumn 2011 to ask whether he could plow the following year.

Police say Allen and Patricia lured Jenkins from her home, with the wife calling her to say they were broken down on her road. Allen Prue then strangled her, police said.

Jenkins' young son, Ty Robertson, apparently witnessed at least part of the attack, police said. When an investigator questioned him, he pulled on the back of his neck and indicated that a perpetrator had done the same to "mommy."

Back at their home, investigators say, Allen Prue put Jenkins' body on a tarp, removed her clothes and poured bleach on her body. The Prues also removed their clothes and put them on the tarp.

They then drove to a boat access at the Connecticut River, which separates Vermont from New Hampshire, and put Jenkins' body in the water, weighing it down with cinder blocks and concealing it with brush, court documents said.

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Murder defendants Allen Prue and wife Patricia Prue (left); victim Melissa Jenkins (right)

The 32-year-old defendant, Allen Prue, cried when the jury announced its guilty verdicts.

The jury rejected arguments by Allen Prue's defense that his wife, Patricia Prue, killed the 33-year-old Jenkins in a jealous rage.

Prosecutors said the Prues lured Jenkins from her St. Johnsbury home on March 25, 2012, as part of a long-planned crime. Patricia Prue's computer had been used to conduct online searches for "how to kidnap a girl," investigators said.

Police were led to the couple by a business card for Prue's plow business (he'd formerly plowed her driveway) and because Jenkins had told a friend she was suspicious that the Prues called her about their broken down vehicle.

Allen Prue told police he and his wife went out to "get a girl" and "wanted somebody they could play with," Caledonia County State's Attorney Lisa Warren told jurors.

Jenkins, a single mother and a teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy, was reported missing after her vehicle was found idling on her rural road with her 2-year-old son inside (the boy later described the attack on his mom to police).

Jenkins' nude body was found the next day in the Connecticut River. She had been strangled and beaten. A coroner found stun gun burns on her body, and authorities said they found a box for a stun gun in the couple's home, but not the weapon itself.

Allen Prue was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy and attempted kidnapping. He could be sentenced to life in prison. Judge Robert Bent did not set a date for the sentencing. (HOTD: minimum sentence for the crimes is reportedly 35 years and max is life-in-prison in VT.)

Prosecutors said during the two-week trial that Allen Prue gave a detailed confession to police that implicated both him and his wife. His lawyer had argued his client had a low IQ and was unaware of his wife's plan to kill Jenkins. (HOTD: such bullshit -- the couple jointly researched, planned a ruse, executed a murder and disposed of a body -- they're both intelligent enough to be held responsible for what they were intelligent enough to carry out.)

Patricia Prue, 34, is being tried separately on an aggravated murder charge and other counts. Her trial is scheduled for February. If convicted of aggravated murder, she would get an automatic life sentence.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vermont-man-...g-teacher/