Woman Who Killed for Lust

I'm sure a lot of men would find Sheila LaBarre charming. Actually, she proved that fact several times, but not like most of these men would have wanted, unless they were of a masochist disposition. In many ways, she behaved like some male serial killers, enticing her victims to visit her on the farm where she lived to torture, control and, in some cases, even kill them, probably during sex.

As a very young girl, she had plans of becoming an artist and a model. However, having been abused by her father and his friends for years did something to her mentality and sent her out on another course in life. When she married, 19 years old, and became a stepmom that must have been an attempt at escaping her past as the abused daughter of a man unfit to be a father, but as it is, she herself turned into a physical and emotional abuser of both her husband and her stepdaughter: Not surprising, the marriage only lasted for 6 weeks. However, soon after that failed marriage, she married another man whom she treated just as badly. Of course, that marriage also ended in a divorce, but in 1987 she set her trap for someone else, using a "Lonely Hearts"-ad.: The wealthy, widowed chiropractor, Wilfred LaBarre. 

Soon after moving in with him, she succeeded in taking over his large horse farm, to isolate him, and also to get her hands on his finances, yes, actually, his entire property. They never married, but she also started to use his name "LaBarre". One of her exploits was luring young men to the farm to abuse and exploit them. At one point, she even married one of them, Wayne Ennis, and did what she could to abuse him, right under the nose of Wilfred LaBarre. However, Wayne escaped her, but they never divorced, and in 2000 Wilfred died, presumably from natural, although suspicious, causes, although some don't believe that. 

Sheila's "thing" was bringing young men home to the farm and abuse them, but the first one she murdered (as far as we know) was after the death of Wilfred: Michael DeLuge whose birth certificate was found in her septic tank. His body, on the other hand, was never found. Soon after what is thought to be her first murder, she lures another young and vulnerable man to the farm: Kenneth Countie. She promises him love and shelter, but only gives him starvation, physical and mental torture, before she tires of him and murders him. This time she is brought to court and sentenced to jail for life, but she is still being investigated for more murders of men. Her statement at the trial that she in reality was "an angel sent by God to punish pedophiles" may have been an attempt of claiming innocence because of insanity, but whatever it was, it didn't help her: Sentenced she was.

 

As it is, I see Sheila LaBarre as a sad case of a victim being turned into an abuser and killer by being the treatment she received at the hands of abusive men. To me, it's obvious that her childhood made her what she became ....

 

https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/sheila-labarre-case-who-did-she-kill 

 

https://www.truecrimene.com/episodes/episode-4 

 

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