By Madhuri Dey
Oct. 30, Iowa, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Michelle Kehoe is to be convicted of first degree murder and endangering children, on the basis of witness of her son [whom she had left for dead]. Michelle had been arrested for murder when her two year old son was found dead in a van that belonged to their family. His throat was slit. Beside him, there was his elder brother. His throat was also slit, but he was miraculously alive. This discovery was made on November 27, 2008, in an isolated area near Littleton.

After being arrested, Kehoe denied all allegations and said that the murder had been caused by a stranger. Police found a handwritten note that said that a stranger had stopped the family at the gas station and had forced them to go to the area where the boys were found. He had then committed the murders and knocked Michelle unconscious with a pepper spray when she had tried to defend herself and her sons. According to Andrew Prosser, Assistant Iowa Attorney General, after killing her younger son and attempting murder on the other, she had tried to kill herself by slashing her own throat. When she realized that she would not die, she went to a nearby home and narrated the story she had obviously carefully prepared.

Michelle’s plan went awry when the police recorded the testimony of Sean, her elder son. He said to the police that his mother had taped his mouth and eyes and had slashed his throat. He testified all the other evidences gathered by the police and assured that his mother had indeed killed his brother.