Texas execution scheduled tomorrow for man who raped, murdered, robbed UNI grad November 12, 2008
Posted by John in Crime/Courts.Tags: capital punishment, death row, Denard Sha Manns, executions, Greg Abbott, homicide, Michele Robson, Michelle Robson Wellenstein, murder, robbery, sexual assault, University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls Iowa)
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Case details available from Texas Attorney General:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott offers the following information about Denard Sha Manns, who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 13, 2008. …
On November 19, 1998, Michelle Robson was found dead in a bathtub in her Killeen home. She had been shot five times with a .22 caliber gun. …
From Associated Press via Houston Chronicle:
On Thursday, Denard Manns, 42, faced execution for the 1998 fatal shooting of Michelle Robson, 26, at her apartment in Killeen. Robson, from Iowa, was a Fort Hood soldier living off the base. …
And from Utica, NY, Observer-Dispatch:
Man awaits execution of wife’s murderer
“She was sweet, passionate, caring … she was wonderful,” Clay Wellenstein of West Winfield said. “She was athletic, smart, had a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa. She was outgoing, very involved and active. She was social.” …
On Nov. 18, 1998, Wellenstein’s wife was sexually assaulted, robbed and shot five times with a .22-caliber, according to the Austin Chronicle newspaper. Manns took cash, credit cards and Michelle Wellenstein’s car. …
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UPDATE: Robson was from Newton, Iowa, per this AP story:
POST-EXECUTION UPDATE: Murder victim’s childhood friend in Iowa notes hard rain at gravesite while killer executed. Also, last words before the execution from the Killeen Daily Herald.