GUILTY MO - Melvin 'Beau' Griesbauer, 44, murdered, Novinger, 23 March 2006
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Young is now scheduled for trial sometime in 2009. She was granted a change of venue (Linn County--Brookfield or Marceline area) and a change of judge. None of this is sealed in cement, however, as we all know about delays and motions and other tactics.
Mock has been taken off the trial schedule and there still has not been a new trial date set.
Not much else to update as investigators and the prosecuting attorney remained very tlight lipped on this one. You can follow along on local postings at:
http://www.topix.net/forum/city/kirksville-mo
Click on Homicide in Northeast Missouri.
There's also a forum up in the Cassville area (Mock's home):
http://www.topix.net/forum/city/cassville-mo
Click on Homicide in Northeast Missouri has Cassville Connections.
http://www.topix.net/forum/city/kirksville-mo
Click on Homicide in Northeast Missouri.
There's also a forum up in the Cassville area (Mock's home):
http://www.topix.net/forum/city/cassville-mo
Click on Homicide in Northeast Missouri has Cassville Connections.
shotzie
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I hope u have some updates on this and when the trial is..Will u be going to it when it happens?
Bringing the thread up-to-date:
Early on the morning of Thursday, March 23, 2006 Melvin 'Beau' Griesbauer was found dead outside his home in rural Novinger, Missouri. Griesbauer died of a single gunshot wound to the head. A Winchester 30-30 rifle was laying next to his body.
When law enforcement arrived at the scene, following two 911 calls--one originating from the scene--Griesbauer's wife Elain Kay Young and her friend, Kathy Mock of Cassville, Mo., were present. Both women reportedly told first-on-the-scene Adair County sheriff’s officers it was a suicide.
That story didn’t fly.
The position of the rifle—owned by the victim’s wife--was the first indication the 43-year-old man had not shot himself. A subsequent coroner’s investigation and autopsy by the Missouri Medical Examiner led to cause of death being ruled a homicide.
After a weeklong investigation by the Adair County Sheriff's Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Drug and Crime Control Unit, Adair County Prosecutor Mark Williams filed a first-degree murder charge against Kathy Mock. Some of the evidence leading to Mock's arrest came from an interview with her son, Thomas Ponder, who told authorities his mother had told him Kay Young wanted her husband killed and there was a $10,000 payment to anyone who would kill him. A knit ski mask, containing Mock’s DNA, and a box of latex gloves (later discovered to belong to Young) had also been found near the crime scene. At the time of Mock’s arrest, Williams announced Mock may not be the only arrest for Griesbauer's death.
On April 6, 2006 Mock was taken into custody at a mental health facility in Joplin, Missouri, where she reportedly checked herself in to “avoid prison time.” A friend of Mock’s (unaware of the shooting at the time) who drove her to the hospital on March 24, 2006, the day following the shooting, alleged Mock was in possession of “several hundred pills” given to her by Young with instructions to “take some of these if you need to feel better.”
The same day Mock was arrested, Young listed her 92-acre farm for sale.
For the past three years, Mock has been held in the Adair County jail under a $1 million cash-only bond. Several trial dates have been assigned and later canceled, but she is currently scheduled to go to trial in August 2009. Reportedly, she has remained silent about what happened during the early morning hours of March 23, 2006.
At the time of his death, Griesbauer worked the line at a meat-packing plant in southern Iowa, approximately 60 miles from his rural Missouri home. His annual income was estimated to be between $30-35,000. Dead, the former LPN and Army Reserve Specialist was worth $1.2 million. Adair County Sheriff’s Deputy Larry Logston stated: “The number of life insurance policies and the inflated amount is key to our investigation.”
Griesbauer and Young were married in September, 2004. His second marriage, her fourth. At the time of their wedding, Young was superintendent of schools at Callao, Missouri. In October 2004 his Reserve Unit was deployed to Iraq. He survived his tour of duty, returned home in October 2005 and six months later was found shot to death next to an outbuilding on his wife’s farm. Although Young had taken the last names of her previous three husbands, she never assumed Griesbauer’s name.
On March 17, 2008, nearly two years after the shooting death of her husband, 53-year-old Kay Young was arrested and charged with 1st degree capital murder. She is currently being held in Howard County (Fayette, MO) on a $2.5 million cash-only bond. At the time of her arrest, Young was a middle school science teacher in Milan, Missouri.
Weeks prior to Young’s arrest, the body of her mother, Celia Hammons, was exhumed and sent for autopsy at the State Medical Examiner’s Office. Hammons died in 2000, and allegedly family members were suspicious the death was not from natural causes. For eight years they had voiced their concerns. Following Griesbauer’s death and a two-year murder investigation, authorities also began to question Hammons’ death. Results of that autopsy are still unknown.
After her arrest, Young’s problems appeared to multiple. In April 2008, an anonymous tip was received alleging Young had attempted to have her second husband killed. The source reports a friend had been approached in 1993 and offered $1,000 to kill husband number two.
And husband number three may also have been a potential target. During their separation and while on a restraining order, he alleges Young called him and asked him to drive to a remote field to round up horses that had broken out of the pasture. He declined, instead sending his nephew who claims the horses were within the fenced area. As was Young, who, he alleges, was holding a gun.
What little media attention this case has received has generated other allegations of Young’s sketchy past. There have been reports of embezzlement of state and federal funds while she was employed with the Callao School District; a possible extortion attempt of a Missouri State Highway Patrol Office; and arranging (albeit without official sanction) to foster a high school student for the purpose of “artificial insemination.”
In the year since her arrest, Young has been granted two changes of venue and has been assigned five different judges. She is scheduled to go on trial beginning October 29, 2009.
Early on the morning of Thursday, March 23, 2006 Melvin 'Beau' Griesbauer was found dead outside his home in rural Novinger, Missouri. Griesbauer died of a single gunshot wound to the head. A Winchester 30-30 rifle was laying next to his body.
When law enforcement arrived at the scene, following two 911 calls--one originating from the scene--Griesbauer's wife Elain Kay Young and her friend, Kathy Mock of Cassville, Mo., were present. Both women reportedly told first-on-the-scene Adair County sheriff’s officers it was a suicide.
That story didn’t fly.
The position of the rifle—owned by the victim’s wife--was the first indication the 43-year-old man had not shot himself. A subsequent coroner’s investigation and autopsy by the Missouri Medical Examiner led to cause of death being ruled a homicide.
After a weeklong investigation by the Adair County Sheriff's Department and the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Drug and Crime Control Unit, Adair County Prosecutor Mark Williams filed a first-degree murder charge against Kathy Mock. Some of the evidence leading to Mock's arrest came from an interview with her son, Thomas Ponder, who told authorities his mother had told him Kay Young wanted her husband killed and there was a $10,000 payment to anyone who would kill him. A knit ski mask, containing Mock’s DNA, and a box of latex gloves (later discovered to belong to Young) had also been found near the crime scene. At the time of Mock’s arrest, Williams announced Mock may not be the only arrest for Griesbauer's death.
On April 6, 2006 Mock was taken into custody at a mental health facility in Joplin, Missouri, where she reportedly checked herself in to “avoid prison time.” A friend of Mock’s (unaware of the shooting at the time) who drove her to the hospital on March 24, 2006, the day following the shooting, alleged Mock was in possession of “several hundred pills” given to her by Young with instructions to “take some of these if you need to feel better.”
The same day Mock was arrested, Young listed her 92-acre farm for sale.
For the past three years, Mock has been held in the Adair County jail under a $1 million cash-only bond. Several trial dates have been assigned and later canceled, but she is currently scheduled to go to trial in August 2009. Reportedly, she has remained silent about what happened during the early morning hours of March 23, 2006.
At the time of his death, Griesbauer worked the line at a meat-packing plant in southern Iowa, approximately 60 miles from his rural Missouri home. His annual income was estimated to be between $30-35,000. Dead, the former LPN and Army Reserve Specialist was worth $1.2 million. Adair County Sheriff’s Deputy Larry Logston stated: “The number of life insurance policies and the inflated amount is key to our investigation.”
Griesbauer and Young were married in September, 2004. His second marriage, her fourth. At the time of their wedding, Young was superintendent of schools at Callao, Missouri. In October 2004 his Reserve Unit was deployed to Iraq. He survived his tour of duty, returned home in October 2005 and six months later was found shot to death next to an outbuilding on his wife’s farm. Although Young had taken the last names of her previous three husbands, she never assumed Griesbauer’s name.
On March 17, 2008, nearly two years after the shooting death of her husband, 53-year-old Kay Young was arrested and charged with 1st degree capital murder. She is currently being held in Howard County (Fayette, MO) on a $2.5 million cash-only bond. At the time of her arrest, Young was a middle school science teacher in Milan, Missouri.
Weeks prior to Young’s arrest, the body of her mother, Celia Hammons, was exhumed and sent for autopsy at the State Medical Examiner’s Office. Hammons died in 2000, and allegedly family members were suspicious the death was not from natural causes. For eight years they had voiced their concerns. Following Griesbauer’s death and a two-year murder investigation, authorities also began to question Hammons’ death. Results of that autopsy are still unknown.
After her arrest, Young’s problems appeared to multiple. In April 2008, an anonymous tip was received alleging Young had attempted to have her second husband killed. The source reports a friend had been approached in 1993 and offered $1,000 to kill husband number two.
And husband number three may also have been a potential target. During their separation and while on a restraining order, he alleges Young called him and asked him to drive to a remote field to round up horses that had broken out of the pasture. He declined, instead sending his nephew who claims the horses were within the fenced area. As was Young, who, he alleges, was holding a gun.
What little media attention this case has received has generated other allegations of Young’s sketchy past. There have been reports of embezzlement of state and federal funds while she was employed with the Callao School District; a possible extortion attempt of a Missouri State Highway Patrol Office; and arranging (albeit without official sanction) to foster a high school student for the purpose of “artificial insemination.”
In the year since her arrest, Young has been granted two changes of venue and has been assigned five different judges. She is scheduled to go on trial beginning October 29, 2009.
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Wow, what a story. This is only about an hour or a little more from me!
Thanks for the update. We haven't heard much about it lately.
Thanks for the update. We haven't heard much about it lately.
According to Missouri case net, the trial has been backed off (again) due t a "pending federal investigation," but that event might not be related to this case. It could be something that would keep the prosecutor from being in court during the scheduled trial dates. Those officially involved in this case are still not talking....but I have put out some feelers to see if I can find out any information. So far, nothing.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/mow/index.html
<<Mock.Young.Indictment.pdf>>
October 23, 2009
For Immediate Release
St. Louis, MO: Elain Kay Young and Katherine A. Mock were charged with federal conspiracy charges involving the murder of Young’s husband, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap and Adair County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Williams announced today.
According to the indictment, Young and Mock planned and caused the murder of Young’s husband Melvin B. Griesbauer on March 23, 2006, so that Young could collect his insurance policies.
The indictment alleges that Young knew that her husband had a $600,000 basic life insurance policy issued by the Army And Air Force Mutual Aid Association (AAFMA) through his service in the United States Army National Guard. Young was beneficiary of the policy upon her husband’s death. She was also the beneficiary under two other policies concerning Mr. Griesbauer. Young had enrolled him in a $37,500 accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy through Monumental Life Insurance Company in connection with her employment at the Milan Schools and her association with the Missouri State Teachers Association. They had also enrolled in another accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy for $100,000 through Continental Casualty Company, a subsidiary of CNA.
Young allegedly recruited Mock to pursue a scheme to murder Griesbauer. In March 2006, Mock attempted to recruit a person to commit the murder for $6,000. The same month, Mock attempted to recruit a different person for $10,000.
On March 22, 2006, Mock traveled from her residence in Cassville, MO, to Griesbauer and Young’s residence in Novinger, MO. During the late evening hours of March 22, 2006, or the early morning hours of March 23, 2006, Young drove to Kirksville to pick up Griesbauer at conclusion of his work shift. The indictment alleges that when they returned home, Mock and Young caused the death of Griesbauer by causing him be shot in the head with a .30-30 Winchester caliber rifle, a firearm previously in the possession of Young and her family.
Both Mock and Young tried to conceal their involvement in the murder by making false statements to other persons. Additionally, as alleged in the indictment, Young provided Mock with pills containing hydrocodone and acetaminophen. She told Mock consume the pills in order to receive a short term in a mental hospital and avoid a penitentiary sentence. Beginning in late March 2006, Young used facilities in interstate commerce, and thereafter the mail, as part of processing the insurance claims.
Finally, the indictment alleges that in April 2009, Young mailed letters to potential witnesses directing them not to disclose her ability to escape from custody and directing them how to communicate regarding her ability to escape and travel to a non-extradition country.
Young, 55, Novinger, MO; and Mock, 55, Cassville, MO, were each indicted on one felony count of conspiracy to commit murder for hire and one felony count of murder for hire. If convicted, the maximum penalty for each charge is life in prison and fines up to $250,000.
Reap commended the tremendous efforts of the Adair County Prosecutor’s Office in conducting its investigation.
“This was a long term investigation,” said Roland Corvington, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in St. Louis. “The cooperation from the Adair County Sheriff's Office, Barry County Sheriff's Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol helped bring this case successfully to this point.”
Reap and Williams commended the work on the case by the Adair County Sheriff’s Office, the Barry County Sheriff’s Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Kirksville Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Assistant United States Attorneys Tom Dittmeier and Michael Reilly, who are handling the case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The charges set forth in an indictment are merely accusations, and each defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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<<Mock.Young.Indictment.pdf>>
October 23, 2009
For Immediate Release
TWO MISSOURI WOMEN CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO
COMMIT MURDER FOR HIRE & MURDER FOR HIRE
COMMIT MURDER FOR HIRE & MURDER FOR HIRE
St. Louis, MO: Elain Kay Young and Katherine A. Mock were charged with federal conspiracy charges involving the murder of Young’s husband, Acting United States Attorney Michael W. Reap and Adair County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Williams announced today.
According to the indictment, Young and Mock planned and caused the murder of Young’s husband Melvin B. Griesbauer on March 23, 2006, so that Young could collect his insurance policies.
The indictment alleges that Young knew that her husband had a $600,000 basic life insurance policy issued by the Army And Air Force Mutual Aid Association (AAFMA) through his service in the United States Army National Guard. Young was beneficiary of the policy upon her husband’s death. She was also the beneficiary under two other policies concerning Mr. Griesbauer. Young had enrolled him in a $37,500 accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy through Monumental Life Insurance Company in connection with her employment at the Milan Schools and her association with the Missouri State Teachers Association. They had also enrolled in another accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy for $100,000 through Continental Casualty Company, a subsidiary of CNA.
Young allegedly recruited Mock to pursue a scheme to murder Griesbauer. In March 2006, Mock attempted to recruit a person to commit the murder for $6,000. The same month, Mock attempted to recruit a different person for $10,000.
On March 22, 2006, Mock traveled from her residence in Cassville, MO, to Griesbauer and Young’s residence in Novinger, MO. During the late evening hours of March 22, 2006, or the early morning hours of March 23, 2006, Young drove to Kirksville to pick up Griesbauer at conclusion of his work shift. The indictment alleges that when they returned home, Mock and Young caused the death of Griesbauer by causing him be shot in the head with a .30-30 Winchester caliber rifle, a firearm previously in the possession of Young and her family.
Both Mock and Young tried to conceal their involvement in the murder by making false statements to other persons. Additionally, as alleged in the indictment, Young provided Mock with pills containing hydrocodone and acetaminophen. She told Mock consume the pills in order to receive a short term in a mental hospital and avoid a penitentiary sentence. Beginning in late March 2006, Young used facilities in interstate commerce, and thereafter the mail, as part of processing the insurance claims.
Finally, the indictment alleges that in April 2009, Young mailed letters to potential witnesses directing them not to disclose her ability to escape from custody and directing them how to communicate regarding her ability to escape and travel to a non-extradition country.
Young, 55, Novinger, MO; and Mock, 55, Cassville, MO, were each indicted on one felony count of conspiracy to commit murder for hire and one felony count of murder for hire. If convicted, the maximum penalty for each charge is life in prison and fines up to $250,000.
Reap commended the tremendous efforts of the Adair County Prosecutor’s Office in conducting its investigation.
“This was a long term investigation,” said Roland Corvington, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in St. Louis. “The cooperation from the Adair County Sheriff's Office, Barry County Sheriff's Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol helped bring this case successfully to this point.”
Reap and Williams commended the work on the case by the Adair County Sheriff’s Office, the Barry County Sheriff’s Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Kirksville Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Assistant United States Attorneys Tom Dittmeier and Michael Reilly, who are handling the case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The charges set forth in an indictment are merely accusations, and each defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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fran
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Here are a few articles about this case. Some of the comments on the first article are interesting.
JMHO
fran
http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=498917
Death penalty possible in murder case
Posted: 08.18.2010 at 8:05 PM
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http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=585897
Mock, Young will not face death
Posted: 02.25.2011 at 12:31 PM
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http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=611699
Mock/Young learn trial date
Posted: 04.29.2011 at 8:20 AM
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JMHO
fran
http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=498917
Death penalty possible in murder case
Posted: 08.18.2010 at 8:05 PM
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<article and video at link>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=585897
Mock, Young will not face death
Posted: 02.25.2011 at 12:31 PM
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<full article at link>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=611699
Mock/Young learn trial date
Posted: 04.29.2011 at 8:20 AM
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<,article and photos of suspects at link>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Trial was backed out again on Monday, 10/31. New date is sometime in March. Baffling why this one keeps getting delayed. I do have the Motion in Limine filed a few weeks ago and it is an eyeopener! The Feds are trying to bring in evidence of two prior murder for hire incidents and one incident of Young offering to murder a man's wife for him. This thing is gonna be huge....if it ever gets to trial.