Affidavit describes LaBarre's views on sex offenders
James A. Kimble
GOFFSTOWN | In addition to blood stains that matched a DNA sample from Kenneth Countie, an investigator found traces of what was described as "old" blood under layers of dust and dirt in a bathroom sink and tub at Sheila LaBarre's Epping farmhouse, a police affidavit says.
A notebook found in LaBarre's home has a sketch of a human body "made of circles."
"Under the sketch were the following notes: 110 lbs., 5'4"; 1. incinerated burned ashes flushed scatter; 2. water- 3. Bury c shovel; 4. private pilot/helicopter/boat; DEATH (which is circled); TORCH (erased but still visible); 1. incinerate burned," the affidavit says.
Below that entry was "Daniel: 3," an apparent reference to a Biblical passage about bodies being cast and burned.
The entry was dated July 1, 2005 | months before Sheila LaBarre was known to have contact with Countie, who she is accused of killing sometime around March 23.
Asked if the blood stain or notebook entry could suggest another victim, Assistant Attorney General Peter Odom refused to comment on the information made public yesterday, which was contained in an affidavit written by state police Sgt. Robert Estabrook.
The details are among the strange odds and ends that were revealed by Estabrook, the lead investigator in the case, who testified for nearly two hours in Goffstown District Court about evidence that led to LaBarre's arrest last month. A day after Countie's mother called Epping police to file a second missing person report on her son, LaBarre made a hysterical phone call to police around 1 a.m. Sgt. Sean Gallagher took the call and listened to LaBarre say she didn't know or care where Countie was because she woke up one morning and he was gone.
LaBarre then played an audio tape she alleges she made with Countie. "LaBarre went on to allege Countie raped several young children," Estabrook's affidavit says. "After each statement, LaBarre asked Countie if the statement is true. Countie replied yes, but Gallagher described the voice as muffled."
At the end of the tape, Gallagher believes he hears LaBarre "screaming and yelling" at Countie, then Countie vomiting. "Shortly after that, LaBarre states, 'you didn't faint, stop faking that you fainted.'" LaBarre told the police chief, Gregory Dodge, that the evening she made the tape was the last night she saw Countie alive.
LaBarre had been asked to leave her home at 70 Oak Hill Farm as police searched it on March 25, but apparently remained under police surveillance three days later at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester.
Around 7:15 that morning, a man named Steven Martello picked up LaBarre on the side of Interstate 293. Martello eventually went to police in response to television news reports that LaBarre was wanted for the murder of Countie.
To Martello, she was a complete stranger, but he agreed to give her a ride to Dorchester, Mass., for $100, an affidavit says. She claimed to be wealthy, but said she had had a fight with her boyfriend and her car had broken down. But Martello later told police, "as they drove by a Derry police car on Route 102, the woman made an excuse to duck down."
Martello told police that LaBarre said she needed to mail a letter to a friend and the pair made a stop at a local CVS before heading to Massachusetts. In Dorchester, LaBarre bought boots and began talking about her disdain for sex offenders.
"Martello noted that the woman had a big roll of money on her," wrote Estabrook. "The woman went on to state that she dated an 'offender' and claimed all cops were sex offenders."
LaBarre explained that "sex offenders all must die and kept saying, 'vengeance is mine said the Lord and she was sent back to earth as an angel and she talked to God and the apostles in Hebrew."
"When Martello tried to leave, the woman stated that to tell no one that she had met him, because a sex offender would come and hurt his son and that he could not stop the offender," Estabrook wrote.
Martello acknowledged to police he had sex with LaBarre at a hotel room and noted LaBarre "appeared to have fresh cuts and bruises all over her hands and legs."
"The woman went on to state that she had died and come back," he said. "That she was an angel and that Martello had sex with an angel. She then started talking again about sex offenders and police officers."
With Martello's tip, police were eventually able to locate LaBarre in Revere, Mass., where she was found with a $50,000 travelers check and $30,000 in cash.
