WTW? Wife slain after putting ketchup lid on too tightly, prosecutor says

[mfcorey1]

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BEND, Ore. -- An 86-year-old Oregon man on trial for the shooting death of his wife carried out the attack after a series of grievances with his family that prosecutors said included the failure of his stepdaughter to wish him a happy birthday and his complaint that his wife put the lid on the ketchup bottle too tightly.
Deschutes County prosecutor Mary Anderson told jurors about Lawrence Loeffler's complaints during opening statements Wednesday at his murder trial.
Anderson said Loeffler made the criticisms about his family during questioning by officers about the death of 83-year-old Betty Loeffler. The prosecutors said the killing was a calculated act.
Anderson said Lawrence Loeffler took the phone off the hook, retrieved a .25-caliber handgun in the middle of the night from the bedroom where she slept and then "set a trap" to get his wife onto the deck at the back of their house near La Pine, a town of about 1,670 people on the east edge of the Cascade Range in Central Oregon.


He shot her once in the neck and then again in the head in what he described to investigators as a "kill shot" to make sure she was dead, Anderson told jurors.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/20/20593524-wife-slain-after-putting-ketchup-lid-on-too-tightly-prosecutor-says?lite

[pinboy3niner]

1. I smell a condimental insanity defense. nt

[LiberalEsto]

2. I doubt it will pass mustard. nt

[Goalie49009]

3. He may need to goto the.....

mayo clinic

[pinboy3niner]

4. You and Goalie are men after my own heart

I relish your contributions.

[LiberalEsto]

6. I hate to cast asparagus...

but I'm a she...

[pinboy3niner]

7. So you claim

Gender is irrelevant here. I just hope you're not literally after my heart.

[KamaAina]

9. Horseradish!

[Chan790]

5. What the heck do you do with a guy like Mr. Loeffler?

He's 86 years old which puts him past the age when many murderers on life sentences are being released on humane grounds. He can't be put in gen. pop. He's likely to die before his trial can complete even. I have to wonder if this is a sad misguided attempt to compel the state to handle his medical issues and expenses.

Is it wrong that I think the best solution here is to plead him, bar him from further firearms possession and release him into a state care facility on involuntary hold?

[RebelOne]

8. I can agree. That seems like the only solution.

He will probably be dead within the next 5 years anyway. Though I have an ex-father-in-law who is 92 and still alive and has no major health issues.

[KamaAina]

10. Not Florida?