GUILTY OR - Gerald 'Jerry' Stomps, 60, Gresham, Feb 2009

[tatertot]

Murder trial underway:

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Police-testify-about-clues-in-Corbett-husbands-murder-114278114.html

 

[JDuMo]

http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2011/01/prosecutors_say_hazelynn_stomp.html

Hazelynn Stomps almost got away with murder, Deputy District Attorney Annie Shoen said Friday as she began her closing argument at Stomps' trial.

"But at the very last minute, something went horribly wrong with her perfect plan," Shoen said. "And it ruined everything."

That something was a broken pelvis, which Shoen said Stomps, 57, had to work into her elaborate story explaining the disappearance of her 60-year-old husband, Jerry Stomps.

Hazelynn Stomps became a suspect in her husband's death shortly after she reported him missing Feb. 6, 2009. Prosecutors say she shot him and burned his remains before inventing an elaborate account about how the Corbett couple were attacked by two men, one of whom supposedly wanted to buy their boat. When investigators found evidence that contradicted every part of Stomps' story, they shifted their focus to her.

http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=129591645497550100
Stomps was sentenced Tuesday morning, Jan. 25, in Multnomah County Circuit Court to life in prison – with no eligibility of parole before 25 years – for the early 2009 murder of her 60-year-old husband, Gerald (Jerry).
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Deputy district attorneys Kirsten Snowden and Annie Schoen argued that Lynn Stomps, sometime around Jan. 31, 2009, shot Jerry twice with his own pistol. She then systematically dismembered his corpse and – through the course of a few days – burned it in large, animal carcass-filled refuse piles and a garbage can on the couple’s Larch Mountain property.

When she fell and injured herself after parking her husband’s truck near the Gordon Creek bridge, prosecutors contend Lynn was setting the stage with evidence to look as if Jerry went fishing by himself, perhaps drowned in the Sandy River, and never came home.

But Lynn’s resulting pelvic injury, which sent her to a Portland hospital, meant she had to alter the story to explain why she too was at the bridge at the crack of dawn, prosecutors said.

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An interesting case. What a cold and calculating woman she is! I'm glad justice was served for Gerald.