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DeKalb County woman charged with capital murder two years after stepfather's death
By Victoria Cumbow, The Huntsville Times

May 14, 2010, 1:25PM

Karrie Denise WilloughbyFORT PAYNE, AL -- A woman was arrested today on murder charges following a two-year investigation into the death of her stepfather.
On April 22, 2008, Karrie Denise Willoughby, 32, claimed she found her stepfather, Billie Junior Shaw, 65, dead in his home, police said. Initial reports indicated Shaw died of a heart attack.
An investigation by the district attorney, law enforcement investigators and Coroner Tom Wilson led to Shaw's body being exhumed in May of 2009. An autopsy revealed Shaw died from a lethal injection of Propofol - the same drug that allegedly killed pop singer Michael Jackson.
Willoughby turned herself in to DeKalb County officials today following a Grand Jury indictment for capital murder. Willoughby is in the DeKalb County Jail without bond.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/05/dekalb_county_woman_charged_wi_1.html
 
Is this for real? I thought the half life of that stuff was very short so it was hard to trace after a time. This guy was dead and buried two years ago. How strange!
 
i wonder what kind of message they're trying to send. and to me, a grand jury is like the media. it should be outlawed, and can be very misleading.
 
ginvid said:
Is this for real? I thought the half life of that stuff was very short so it was hard to trace after a time. This guy was dead and buried two years ago. How strange!
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I agree..this is very confusing...and I dont believe that propofol can be detected in a persons system 2 years later. Maybe they had other evidence that pointed them to this conclusion. This just sounds unbelievable.
 
well if they are that uneducated, then they are clowning around and proving that they don't care about Michael. and they are joking around about it. and the word cruel cowers in their evil presence
 
ginvid said:
Is this for real? I thought the half life of that stuff was very short so it was hard to trace after a time. This guy was dead and buried two years ago. How strange!
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When the person is alive..once all physiology activity stops, I am guessing the body cannot evacuate the drug. So drug concentration level remains as it was at the time of death.
 
Memefan said:
When the person is alive..once all physiology activity stops, I am guessing the body cannot evacuate the drug. So drug concentration level remains as it was at the time of death.
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This makes sense...that is why they were able to detect it in Michael to the degrees that they did..because once the blood stops pumping to different parts of the body and just settles there...it can no longer be absorbed by the body. Good Job Memefan..:)
 
Woman Injected Stepfather With Lethal Dose of Propofol

Sheriff: DeKalb County Woman Injected Stepfather With Lethal Dose of Propofol

Body Exhumed in May 2009

Robert Richardson Reporter
7:16 PM CDT, May 14, 2010

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Karrie Denise Willoughby, 32 (DeKalb County Sheriff's Department / May 14, 2010)


DEKALB COUNTY, AL - A Dekalb County woman is charged with capital murder, after investigators say she gave her stepfather an injection that killed him.

Karrie Denise Willoughby, 32, turned herself in Friday, one year and one day after investigators exhumed her stepfather's body from an Ider cemetery.

Willoughby is being held in the DeKalb County Jail without bond. Investigators say she used Propofol.

Willoughby is charged in the death of her stepfather, Billie Junior Shaw, 65, on April 22, 2008. Reports from that day show Willoughby told investegators she found Shaw in his home in the Cartersville community. Emergency responders from Ider Rescue Squad and DeKalb Ambulance Service arrived, and Coroner Tom Wilson pronounced Shaw dead at the scene.

Initial reports at the scene indicated Mr. Shaw had died of an apparent heart attack. However, that turned out not to be the case.

"We received those samples back probably 6 to 8 months after we got the results back, it showed propofol in the blood sample," Sheriff Jimmy Harris said.

They started proceedings to exhume Shaw's body so an autopsy could be performed.

Officials exhumed Shaw's remains on May 13, 2009.

"We sent the body to the Medical Examiner in Huntsville, and they determined was propofol, propofol poisoning that led to his death," Harris said.

Propofol is the same drug the Los Angeles County Coroner determined caused Michael Jackson's death in June 2009. Sheriff Harris found that investigation relevant.

"During our case and all this, that was going on," Harris said.

"That came out right after it and we tried to follow that case as much as we could because at that time nobody really knew much about it. It is used in hospitals and places to put people to sleep."

While most people didn't know about Propofol until Michael Jackson's death--or have access to it--Willoughby was familiar with it from her work as a nurse at a Chattanooga medical center.

"She had signed this drug out and that's what started the investigation. We started to look to who had a reason or who could have gotten a hold of this drug so it led us back to her."

In his 20 years in law enforcement, this is the first time Sheriff Harris has dealt with exhuming a body. He said he talked with the current and former Dekalb County District Attorneys and they believe the last exhumation was in the 1950s. This is also the first capital murder case in Dekalb County in Harris' time as Sheriff.

"I'm glad that we finally got to this case. We've worked hard, and I know our prayers go out to her family and to the family of the victim also," Harris said.

"This is a very tragic situation. It is unfortunate, but our investigators and the District Attorney would not have presented the case to the grand jury if we didn't have conclusive evidence."

Sheriff Harris said the timing of Willoughby turning herself into authorities, 366 days after Shaw's exhumation, is purely coincidental.

The indictment for capital murder states that Billie Shaw died by lethal injection.

If convicted, Karrie Willoughby could face capital punishment by lethal injection.


http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-dekalb-county-capital-murder-willoughby,0,821488.story
 
Re: Woman Injected Stepfather With Lethal Dose of Propofol

That's what I call justice.
 
Re: Woman Injected Stepfather With Lethal Dose of Propofol

I'm guessing they've got motive and intent on her (and likely premeditation), to be charging her with capital murder???
 
Re: Woman Injected Stepfather With Lethal Dose of Propofol

Wow..thanks for posting.
Excellent reference on a precedent case. This is exactly what needs to be kept on record and brought to the DA's knowledge.
 
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TinaG said:
I'm guessing they've got motive and intent on her (and likely premeditation), to be charging her with capital murder???
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I should think so.
 
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TinaG said:
I'm guessing they've got motive and intent on her (and likely premeditation), to be charging her with capital murder???
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yep. see this part

"She had signed this drug out and that's what started the investigation."
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so they have premeditation and it also shows intent.
 
Re: Woman Injected Stepfather With Lethal Dose of Propofol

Just an absolutely wonderful find here. G R E A T P O S T ! ! ! Murray should also be charged with Murder 1 and face the death penalty. There is no doubt. Not Murder 2 and most definitely not Manslaughter. He's a physician who worked in interventional cardiology. In that department, patient's require sedation all the time. He knew what he was doing and I strongly feel he did it intentionally. What he did was no accident.
 
although I'd like to see Murray charged with more than IM and spend more time at the prison, you really cannot compare these two cases.

on one case you have a person, who plans to kill someone, takes out a drug and gives it to the other person possibly without their knowledge..

on the other case you have a person who uses the drug in a wrong and careless manner but to make other person to sleep - not to kill and gives with the knowledge of the other party..
 
Asedora said:
Why nobody is not even going to question if Murray had a motivation to kill Michael? Why Murray's "innocence" is being taken by officilas as something obvious? I really do not understand how the American Law system works. Or it just works like that for Michael?:(
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We don't know all of the facts and evidence involved in the investigation and case where Murray is concerned. We don't know what was considered and what wasn't. We don't know that Murray's "innocence" is being taken as anything "obvious." We don't know anything more than what the media has thrown at us, which is a far cry from being all of the facts.

Yes, the American judicial system is flawed, but so are the systems of many other countries (if not all of them). And the fact is that in this country, a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and they are entitled to due process under the law. If that were not the case, Michael himself would likely have died in a prison in 2005, because he would have been thrown in jail based on lies and a twisted presumption of guilt. Sneddon would have loved that, and so would the media. Thank goodness that did not happen, and that is due to the system itself (and a darn good lawyer, T. Mes, who knows the law!).

Many people want Murray charged with a higher crime with the potential for a harsher punishment (myself included). But the reality is, from all current indications, that it's not gonna happen. And no matter what ends up happening, will anyone who loved or cared about Michael really be content with it? In the end, Michael is still gone, so nobody really wins, regardless of how much (or how little, as the case may be) time Murray spends behinds bars. The way I see it, there isn't really any amount of punishment or consequences that would bring peace or satisfaction---not for us, and especially not for his children.
 
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I'll add to this one. It's quite obvious that LAPD and DA doesn't think that Murray is "innocent". If they thought like that they would have never charged him and classified this as an accidental death.

However the system depends on "innocent until proven guilty" order, everybody deserves their day in court, everybody deserves to depend themselves. After a trial a jury of their peers (or in some cases a judge) determines whether they are guilty or not. I realize that this doesn't seem fair in this situation but you'll need to look from the other side as well. TinaG has the perfect example :if an accusation and a DA that thinks you're guilty were enough to determine a person's fate, Michael would have been in the jail at 2003 without a chance of redemption.

Asedora I'm sure that they have investigated every possibility and it's my feeling that (and the events show that) there's not anything that shows premeditation, a motive or a gain from MJ's death by Murray.

I repeatedly said that I too want Murray to be charged with more than manslaughter but as far as the charges go DA can only charge people with what they can prove without reasonable doubt or the person walks free.
 
ivy said:
although I'd like to see Murray charged with more than IM and spend more time at the prison, you really cannot compare these two cases.

on one case you have a person, who plans to kill someone, takes out a drug and gives it to the other person possibly without their knowledge..

on the other case you have a person who uses the drug in a wrong and careless manner but to make other person to sleep - not to kill and gives with the knowledge of the other party..
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:bugeyed I don't know what to say. But this IS the case forum, and I know the case is TAINTED AS HELL!!!!

Boy, if this post was in the conspiracy forum, I would've torn it apart.

All I'm going to say is when I started reading this part...

on one case you have a person, who plans to kill someone, takes out a drug and gives it to the other person possibly without their knowledge..

I automatically thought of Michael's case, not that woman's. Because I don't believe the media, which is owned by people on Murray's team.

I'm hearing they have MORE than enough evidence to charge murray with murder 2. but they don't even go for manslaughter? they go for IM!! Something is DEFINATELY fishy in this case, and those who cannot see are either acting or need to open their eyes!!
 
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Interesting story and development to Propofol as a whole, but I really doubt this is going to affect the case or Murray's sentencing and charge. So far, from everything thats been released legally, there's only positive, concrete proof that Murray was simply negligent with his client as opposed to having a motive for murder. While I agree Murray should get a lot more time than four years for showcasing carelessness for his patient, is this story really comparable to what happened to Michael? I don't know, but as said before, no matter what, we aren't going to be happy with the outcome, no matter how stiff his sentence may be, no matter how many lies and cover up's get unraveled during Murray's trial, nothing, absolutely nothing is going to replace the void we all have.
 
I have to get something off my chest once again

There is a lot of evidence to convict Murray and have him rotten in Jail for life. The inside media would make sure he walks or just get probation “the head people in charge” love the fact that the family are addressing his allegedly drug addition because this is going to help them close his case and every body looks like clowns they are people who are willing to help in MJ case but they are basically shut out or the media have a flied day destroying their character and put the wrong people who never gave a damn about MJ the person on pedestal like royalty I just don’t know how all them people sleep good at night.

In due time a lot of things are going to come out in the light.
 
I can't believe the double standards we have in todays society, this woman kills someone by injecting someone with propofol- Murder charges... Kill Michael Jackson the same way, manslaughter !!! This is dispicable !!!
 
You do realize that being charged by murder doesn't equal being find guilty of murder, right?

anyway here's more information about this case

Karrie Denise Willoughby's attorney is speaking out, saying his client is innocent. A Facebook page is dedicated to supporting the 32-year-old wife and mother of two young girls.

"Naturally, she's very very upset about the nature of the allegation, can't believe anybody would actually think that she would think she would kill the only man she only knew as a father," said Bruce Gardner, Willoughby's attorney.

Bruce Gardner said Willoughby discovered her 65-year-old stepfather Billie Junior Shaw sitting peacefully in a chair in spring of 2008.

Initial reports pointed to a heart attack, but authorities said clues at the scene would lead them to a different cause of death. A year later, Shaw's body was exhumed and an autopsy revealed he died from a lethal injection of Propofol.

"She turned herself in and she's being held in the jail at this time with no bond," said Sheriff Jimmy Harris.

Gardner said his client, a former registered nurse, admitted she had access to the drug and even lost her job and license as a result, but he thinks it is going to be tough to prove Willoughby was the one who administered the dose.

"You have to put this in context too, his wife, my client's mother had died three weeks to the day before he was found dead at his house, so the biggest issue to me is who administered the lethal dosage including perhaps the deceased himself?" said Gardner.

The DA's office is hoping for a capital murder conviction, claiming the victim died by lethal injection for pecuniary or other valuable consideration. They believe she had absolutely no financial motive.

Gardner said he wants more information, like injection sites and how the cause of death was missed the first time.

Prosecutors and law enforcement believe they have the evidence to prove her guilt.

http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=12489336
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you can see that it's not a simple and definitive case either.. The outcome will depend on what they can prove without reasonable doubt.
 
The point is if they are willing to prove something they actually can. This is where corruption comes in.
As far as I know there may be other factors contributing to the level of charges pressed. For example, what the DA wants to safely charge in order to avoid conflicts with powerful local interests.
Sadly this is a reality everywhere in the world.
 
But won't it be kind of hard to give yourself a lethal injection of Propofol all at once? From what I have heard as soon as that stuff touches your vein you go out
 
Justthefacts said:
But won't it be kind of hard to give yourself a lethal injection of Propofol all at once? From what I have heard as soon as that stuff touches your vein you go out
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I believe it takes some seconds. They had a showed a video on CNN way back and they were able to count back from 10 before the patient was out.
 
ivy said:
I believe it takes some seconds. They had a showed a video on CNN way back and they were able to count back from 10 before the patient was out.
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Yes but
If you gave yourself an injection of propful the evidence (needle and drug would be present)
becuase you would be out and unable to get rid of it. So apprently there was no evidence of
propoful use at the death scene to showing he injected himself.
 
AnnieRUOkay89 said:
You can't just convict someone for murder without the sufficient evidence, that's not the way the judicial system works.
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lol what eutopia is that. tell that to to ppl like rubeun carter. and the many others who have been wrongly convicted of murder.
 
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