Amy Bosley

Shortly before 5 am on May 17, 2005 Campbell County Kentucky 911 call center received a frantic call from Amy Bosley...
Amy Bosley: Someone is breaking into my house and my husband is fighting with him
911:What was that ma'am
Amy Bosley: Someone is breaking into my house and my husband....
NO! You cant go up there..It's my kids
911: Where are they? Where are they at ma'am?
phone disconnects..
911 hello? ma'am..
Amy Bosley: yes?
911: Alright, is he is the house now?
Amy Bosley: He just left but he shot my husband. Oh my God, he shot my husband!!
911: he shot your husband?
Amy Bosley: Yes! Oh my God!
Moments later a patrolman arrived at the Bosleys cabin. Amy Bosley tells him, He shot my husband, he shot my husband! She tells him the intruder fled out the back door. The patrolman pushes past her and there, lying on the bed is Bob Bosley riddled with bullets. His lips were blue..he was dead. He was face down on the bed, shot 7 times. when the detectives came...they knew it didn't look right. Made for TV crime scene. Too perfect..

Okay..give me a fricken break!! I listened to the call and copied down exactly what she said..first of all..what killer is going to let her sit on the phone and call 911? And when she says, No! you can't go up there! It's my kids..umm..that shows that he was right there where she was and he let her stay on the phone? For real? Seriously...OMG...when I listened to her 911 call..I KNEW she did it..I just knew..and I know..no one can say how another person reacts to tragedy...but I could just tell she was lying and the whole call was fake..

Well to say the least, she got caught..when the police went outside to see where the intruder ran off to, the grass had dew on it and it wasn't disturbed. When they were searching through her home, they found...wrapped up in a towel in the washer full of detergent, shell casings. They matched the gun that he was shot with. But they never said if they found the gun..hmm..I wondered about that.

It turns out that since she was the office manager for her husbands business, she was taking all the money that was supposed to be used to pay taxes. the IRS don't play that..so they kept calling and calling trying to get a meeting with her and her husband. he had no idea what was going on because she had all his cell phone calls forwarded to her phone and had all the mail going to a PO box with instructions that only she could retrieve the mail. her husband knew something was going on, but didn't know what. He was also considering a divorce. Well, she shot him and made sure he was dead. the money that she was pilfering from the business was over a million dollars..and with a plea bargain, she will be out of prison is about 15 years or so..so I'm sure when she gets out, she will disappear and be a very rich woman.

I don't get it. She was married to this man for 15 years, they had two kids..and I'm sorry..but any amount of money would not be worth my husbands life. And even if she hated him, any amount of money is not worth the gamble that you may end up going to court for days, weeks even years on end fighting for your freedom and ultimately end up in prison. It just wouldn't be worth it to me. I mean, even though she didn't get life, she is still giving up 15 years of her life for this money that HIS family will probably fight her for because they got stuck with the bill to the IRS..I think it was 1.7 million dollars..so really? Do you think they don't know she has that money hidden someplace? They will find it and have every right to take it from her. So it would have all been for nothing. Seriously stupid people..And WTH is UP with all these women in Kentucky that kill thier husbands? Really! Kentucky should be known as the domestic murder state.

What I think of our SYSTEM and Dixie Shanahan

For the most part, I think our system sucks! There are so many people in prison for crimes they didn't commit, and when a person that the police suspect is a murderer gets off, the police don't look for another suspect. Basically the crime goes unsolved. Most police do not want to admit that maybe they suspected the wrong person the whole time. I have to say, If someone murdered my husband, and the police suspected me and I was their sole suspect..I would be freaking out that the real murderer is out there, roaming free. I'd tell the cops, "Fine! You think it was me? Okay! But please keep looking! Don't focus just on me"! But it happens all the time. And why is it that people get different sentences in different states for basically the same crime? And why is it that the state gets to "assume" what happened in a crime and the defense doesn't get to do the same? The defense only has the truth on their side. The defense has no idea what really happened but they get to make up a theory of what happened and tell it to the jury to help sway the jury in their direction. It's so wrong. I have said it a million times..sometimes I would like to give up my right to be an American simply because of the way our judicial system works. it is scary. What happens if (God forbid) something bad happens to someone in my family and I am accused, or someone else in my family is accused, and we are innocent. If the cops decide you did it, then you did it as far as they can see and they will do everything they can to prove it. And they probably will succeed, just on circumstantial evidence. it scares the crap out of me! There are hundreds of people locked up forever for crimes they didn't commit. I want to give credit where credit is due..the law puts away ALOT of people who deserve to be put away..I agree that alot of people deserve to be in prison for life too..but my problem is there are a lot of people in prison for life that are no threat to our society. For example, Dixie Shanahan, who killed her husband after years and years of horrid abuse. She must serve at least 35 years before she is eligible for parole.Yet, there is a case where a woman shot her husband because she was writing bad checks and didn't want him to find out, an she only got 6 months! Yes! It's crazy! She used the battered wife defense, but no one believed it. He was a preacher, no one ever saw a mark on her, she never told anyone that he abused her until after she was caught, and she got 6 months. She served her time in a mental institution and gets to live her life as if nothing ever happened. Seriously, do people realize how long 35 years IS? I mean..that's practically my WHOLE life..and Dixie Shanahan will be in prison for 35 years because she just couldn't take it anymore. This man held her captive for days in their basement. He tied her hands up with metal coat hangers and threatened to kill her every day while he beat the crap out of her. My heart went out to her and so did many others, but she still has to serve 35 years and won't be out of prison until she is an old woman and her children will be grown. All because she just couldn't take it anymore. She literally snapped. it's not like she didn't call the cops either..she did..and he kept getting out of jail and convincing her he had changed. (Like they all do) She finally had a chance to put him away for a long time, but she left the state and just wanted to move on with her life and guess who came back to get her? Yup! Her husband came back and convinced her to take him back. All this woman wanted was to keep her family together, and all she wanted was to believe that the man she loved would change.
Well, she shot him...and then she left him in the bed that she shot him in for over a year. She just closed off the room and pretended it never happened...and folks..that was probably her downfall..if she would have called the cops immediately after she shot him, I'm sure she would be a free woman.
Woulda, coulda...shoulda...geesh!

Piper Rountree

Okay, this is one murder that I can understand..I will explain in a minute..but first, the back story..
This is the story of the murder of Fred Jablin, a respected college professor, by his wife, Piper Rountree. Piper Rountree was a lawyer who had success in Texas. Her husband was a college professor who was offered a job in Richmond VA, so they moved. She got to Virginia and couldn't pass the Virginia state bar exam, so she pretty much was a stay at home mom while her husband pursued his career. She soon became bored and lonely because he was always at work and she basically had no life outside of her children. So she did what a lot of women do in this circumstance, she had an affair. When Fred found out, he filed for divorce. Piper tried to stay on in Virginia for the sake of her children, but could not find work and was still lonely. All of her family was in Texas. When the divorce went through, because of Pipers adultery and because she couldn't find work, Fred was granted primary custody of their children and she would have to pay child support..so basically Piper went back to Texas with her tail between her legs. She really had no choice, she had to pay child support and could not pay if she could not find work in Virginia. She had her law degree and could practice law in Texas. Not to mention, her family was there and she needed their support. I don't really know how much time went by before her and her sister decided to kill Fred Jablin..I guess she missed her children so much that she would do anything to have them with her, even if it meant murder.

Pipers' motivation was to assure that she was granted custody of their three children. So her and her sister clumsily constructed a series of events designed to provide Piper with an alibi. But since the sisters were not as smart as they believed they were, the attempt ultimately failed. Wearing a wig and using her sister's identification for plane tickets and hotel reservations, Piper flew from Texas to Virginia, where she gunned down her estranged husband in the driveway of his home, as their three children slept in their beds mere yards away. Despite the sister's best efforts to concoct an air tight alibi and dispose of evidence, it was just a matter of time before justice came calling.When police investigators began questioning those close to the family who knew about the contentious divorce between Piper and her husband, Fred Jablin, several individuals suggested the police take a closer look at his ex-wife. Police departments in two states, along with the prosecution team, compiled an impressive mound of evidence and detailed a paper trail that spanned the country from Texas to Virginia and back again.Although Piper had once served as a defense attorney herself, she was uninformed when she assumed she would never be arrested, much less convicted. The most damning piece of evidence came in the form of cell phone records. While Piper casually spoke to her 12 year old son and informed him she was on a business trip in Texas, she was calling from the very neighborhood in which her children resided with their father. (Damn. Forgot about those cell phone records!) So basically, that is how she was caught. The cell phone left a trail from tower to tower along interstate 95 heading into the Baltimore airport. Not to mention, the airline receptionist pointed her out as Piper Rountree in a wig, not Tina Rountree as she was supposed to look like.

Piper got life in the clinker...so she will never see her children outside prison walls again..I know she is beating herself up every day..it was totally NOT worth it.

Okay, the reason I can understand her story is because I lived almost the same story..My ex-husband took me from my family in North Carolina and moved me to Texas. I didn't have any close friends that I could lean on when I needed it because he invaded my space at every turn...(this is a man who controlled my entire life) all of my friends had to be friends with him too. So I basically had no one to talk to, or turn to because he would be sure to give them his side first..They were friends with him too so if I had a marital problem, which I always had, I couldn't talk to them. eventually, I asked for a divorce, we separated and I met someone else. Someone I could spend time with and talk to without his interference. The relationship became pysical once..and I told my ex about it. Well, he decided he was coming back home, and eventually kicked me out, without my children. the relationship was so volatile, I wanted him dead. More than anything..I wanted him dead. There was so much hatred there that I saw red every time he was mentioned or every time I saw him. I eventually packed my belongings, took my children out of school and drove back to NC..with him following me for almost 600 miles. I go back to NC..got a job, got my own house, and put the kids in school. Well, stupid me..I didn't go to a judge and get primary custody of my three children on paper..I didn't think I needed to. They are my kids..right? Wrong. After a year of peaceful living..and not having a man control my every move..he shows up while I was at work and kidnapped my children. I got to him before he got out of the state...and when I tried to reach in the car to get my 2 1/2 year old son, he rolled the window up on my arm and drove off. He was out of the state within the hour and my son was gone. The police could not do anything since he was out of state and I didn't have legal papers saying I had primary custody. There was a warrant for his arrest for domestic violence and kidnapping, but he used my children to get me to drop the charges. He would never let me see them until the warrant was dropped. He came back a few months later and got my oldest son..there was nothing I could do since he lied and had papers saying he had custody of the children the entire time that they were living with me. The papers said I abandoned them, as a family. I wanted to go back to Texas and fight him..but I had a 13 year old daughter (from a previous relationship) and could not take her out of school and move her half way across the country (again) when I had no job or home there. I had no one in Texas and he knew it. So my boys didn't grow up with me. In fact for the first six months that they were both gone, he didn't let me have any contact with them. Okay. this is why I get it. I don't know about Fred Jablin, but my ex is an evil man..and very manipulative and the best liar I have ever seen..I could never win against someone who can do or say anything because he has no conscience. And when you are in a relationship for as long as I was..there are so many emotions..I was married to him for 10 years. He knows every button to push. We don't know..maybe Fred Jablin was pushing Piper Rountree's buttons. And when you are a mother, you will fight tooth and nail to keep your children happy. My children had been through so much, I couldn't risk putting them through anymore. So I left it alone. But I can't lie and say I didn't fantasize about killing the SOB. I did. I wanted him dead..and I still have a hatred inside of me that will not go away..but I have learned to put it aside. It was eating me up inside, and if I would have let it continue to fester, I WOULD have killed him..
So now you know..In my opinion, just because she had an affair didn't mean she wasn't a good mother. If your man isn't giving you what you need, and you try everything to make it work, and he still refuses to listen, he deserves to be cheated on..Wives are people too! Although...she should have left him first..why stay in a marriage if you are just going to cheat?
Obviously, she didn't think about how killing their father was going to affect the children. Like I said, I understand her motives..but I don't condone it. Only GOD has the right to take a life. Piper Rountree has the rest of her life to think about the mistakes she made.

To read the entire story click on the link below.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/family/piper_rountree/2.html

Darlene Gentry

I usually try to understand why these people do what they do..but this one..I don't get..and she so blatantly killed her husband..she can lie all she wants, but the bitch did it.
Her story was the most stupid story I have ever heard..Okay..she shot her hubby in the head, then called 911..and this is what she said.."yeah, I was sleeping in my sons room all night cause they couldn't sleep and when I got up the back door was opened and my husbands gun cabinet was opened and all his guns are gone..and when I went to check on my husband, there was blood on the bed, he's got pink foam coming out of his mouth and he is making a god awful sound.. " (To hear the actual 911 call click the link http://www.wacotrib.com/news/mplayer/m/8201 and give it a second to load)

Okay..first of all..if someone broke into my house and shot my husband in the head..I would have freaked the hell out and called 911 and said someone shot my husband! Instead of the LONG ass story she gave..I don't think I would have been that calm and I certainly would have tried to help my husband out..especially if he was making a god awful sound! And Darlene Gentry is a nurse! WTF?
So the cops come and see all the guns lying in the front yard..neatly stacked..it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what was going on. She claims to have heard nothing or saw nothing. I've heard gunfire..it is extremly loud..Also, there was one gun missing..a .22 pistol.
So she decides that she wants to move because she doesn't want to live in the house that her husband got shot in..that's understandable..so she goes to look at some land and the land she is looking at has a pond. She asks the man who is selling the land if the pond comes with the land and he says yes..she then says, "good, because my husband always wanted a place that the boys could go fishing".
Well, she gets arrested for the murder, but no one can believe such a cute girl (she looks like Jaimie Pressly) committed this crime, so her husbands family bailed her out..well..yeah..she should have stayed where she was...because she may have had a chance of getting acquitted. She gets out of jail on bond, and goes to look at the land again. But this time she tells the guy she doesn't want the pond and she wants him to fill it in. Well, the guy gets suspicious for some reason and calls his friend in the Texas Rangers and says, " Look, this woman wanted the pond at first, now she wants us to fill it in..I think she may have thrown the missing .22 in the pond". So they cops send divers into the pond and within 15 minutes..they find the gun! OMG! yeah...so the guy calls Darlene and says they are going to "drain" the pond and they all set up cameras in the brush in front of the pond and wait..and guess who comes back to the pond? Yup! Darlene Gentry herself...looking for the murder weapon, that she so obviously had thrown into the pond..and you see her clear as day..searching and searching aimlessly for that gun..and never finding it..so yeah...the tape was shown in court and she got sentenced to 60 years in the big house...so she is on camera crying about the tape being admitted into evidence because the only reason she went to the pond looking for the Gun was because she heard a rumor that the gun was thrown into the pond and she didn't want the cops getting it because she was afraid they would try to frame her since she was buying the land..yeah right! Who the hell did she hear a rumor like that from?? You'd have to be stupid to believe her. What is sad is he has 3 little boys who have no daddy now and she is in prison..the boys live with the grandparents. Looks like the only reason she did it was for the money..750 thousand clams..so Darlene? Let me ask you a question..How happy would that money have made your boys without thier daddy? Or were they next?
To see the video...follow the link below
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1459469131/bctid1494791361

Note from the Author

Growing up, I always had an interest in the psychology of serial killers and people who kill in general. I wanted to go to school for criminal psychiatry, but that wasn't my destiny. I chose a different path, but I have never wavered on my interest of the dark side of the mind. Although I never got to attend school for this subject, I have studied so much that I consider myself pretty smart when it comes to what these people have done. We as human beings are capable of so much and so many emotions are involved in a relationship that ends badly, it's easy to see why people would resort to violence. It's also hard to understand why someone would take another life for mere pleasure. My interests in this subject have always been pure curiosity. I have always wanted to understand, because I could not fathom taking someone's life for any reason. Yet these people have thier reasons. I am writing this blog for my own enjoyment but welcome any feedback. Who knows, maybe writing this blog may help me to understand a little more.
I am going to write each entry about a different person and this may be the longest writing that I have ever written. I'll also be stating my opinions..these are my opinions. You may agree or disagree but I am only stating what I believe to be true.
Rhonda