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| MO Killer Commits Suicide After Short Stay |
| By joplinglobe.com |
| Published: 07/30/2010 |
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CARTHAGE, Mo. — Matthew Laurin seemed angry Wednesday morning when he woke up a convicted man headed toward a life behind bars. Laurin, 20, of Springfield, pleaded guilty Monday to the 2008 murders of Robert and Ellen Sheldon, of rural Carthage, and was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance at parole. That prospect likely was troubling him. He had escaped the death penalty. That was the single mercy his guilty pleas gained him. Still, the jail staff thought he seemed angry about something while he spent an allotted hour in an area outside his cell in F pod at the Jasper County Jail, according to Sheriff Archie Dunn. Laurin dropped a letter, or letters, in the pod’s mailbox about 10:25 a.m. and retreated back inside his one-man cell 23 minutes later to be locked up again for the rest of the day, the sheriff said. Read More. |
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