![]() ![]() ![]() Howe’s diamond ring was missing, but many valuables were left behind. ![]() Chunks of her hair had been cut, she was wearing only underclothes and her body had been bathed in bleach. She was stuffed in the trunk of her 2005 Cadillac. ![]() Howe’s body was found days later at a Middletown apartment complex. Then French slit her throat, according to investigators. When French went back to the crawl space, Howe, who was still alive, had crawled back further in the hole. The woman was dragged to a crawl space and stuffed inside. Then he hit Howe with a stun gun, but it didn’t knock her out. But prosecutors said he hatched a plan to rob Howe and others at the retirement community and never intended to leave a witness alive.įrench scammed his way into Howe cottage, telling her he needed to repair his medical alarm system, which he also tried on another residence before he was rebuffed. His confession came months after her death and after a grand jury had returned an indictment for aggravated murder and robbery.įrench’s defense attorneys maintained Howe’s death was an accident, as French told police in his confession. French was 57 and living with his sister outside of Berea, Ky., when he confessed to killing Howe. ![]()
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