Wife who shot fire marshal in bed gets 25 years
Maximum sentence.
The Associated Press
WFLS News
Date published: 7/3/2009
NEW YORK (AP) - A woman who shot her New York City fire marshal
husband to death while he slept in their bed has been sentenced to
25 years to life in prison.
Forty-year-old high school teacher Janet Redmond-Mercereau
got the maximum sentence Thursday.
A Staten Island jury in May convicted her of second-degree
murder.
Thirty-eight-year-old Douglas Mercereau was found dead in their
home in December 2007. The 12-year vet of the Fire Department of New York
had been shot three times in the head.
His wife told investigators she never heard the gunshots. She
said she was wearing earplugs and sleeping in another room with one
of their children, who was sick.
The couple were married 12 years and had three daughters.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Date published: 7/3/2009
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