Murder case with Snapple, shovel to start
Police believe a Chester County mother had no regard for her three children - or human life - when she goaded her young lover into killing her husband on June 17, 2010, and today jury selection will begin in the murder case against 36-year-old Morgan Marie Mengel.
Murder case with Snapple, shovel to start
Police believe a Chester County mother had no regard for her three children — or human life — when she goaded her young lover into killing her husband on June 17, 2010.
Jury selection begins today in the murder case against 36-year-old Morgan Marie Mengel, who is accused of conspiring with Stephen M. Shappell, 22, to poison and fatally bludgeon Kevin Mengel, 33, at the landscaping business the couple ran in West Goshen Township.
Police said Morgan Mengel and Shappell, 22, an employee of the couple, spiked the victim's lemon Snapple with liquid nicotine. When that did not work fast enough, Shappell bludgeoned him with a shovel and buried the body behind Shappell’s alma mater, Marple Newtown High School.
Shappell pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and is expected to testify against his former paramour, but not the way his co-defendant had apparently planned, police said.
Prosecutors said the evidence will include texts Morgan Mengel sent to Shappell outlining the murder plot and urging him on as well as letters she sent from prison after the fact. In the latter, she allegedly fabricated a story that she had given birth to Shappell's twin boys in prison and that she needed Shappell to take the fall for the murder so she could raise them. She even provided a birth announcement with the infants' weight and eye color, police said.
Prosecutor Patrick Carmody said that when Shappell learned from investigators that he'd been duped, "he was devastated." Is it any surprise that some TV shows have been closely monitoring this case? Stay tuned for a telemovie.
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the crazy chicks are always the best in the sack. that's a fact, jack.— The Boston Strangler- She must have been good in the sack, because she's as dumb as bag of rocks.Give her life in prison— drbob1
- A man dies a horrible death, murdered and the above three comments are disturbing and sickening. The three of you clown need psychological help.— Bob H
- cmon bobby h! lighten up. go find yourself a crazy chick for the sack and then come talk to me. you'll be whining in tongues!— The Boston Strangler
- First of all for any person to have a username as the Boston Strangler is disturbing. Second, please see my first comment. — Bob H
- First of all for any person to have a username as the Boston Strangler is disturbing. Second, please see my first comment. — Bob H
- Hey Bob --- let them get their crazy chicks. Maybe they'll take a permanent shovel to the face and then we won't have to hear their schpeel here. HAR! — MDRN
- No wonder Snapple is involved, those are the same creeps that keep money flowing to free Mumia...I owuldn't buy or drink a snapple if my life depended on it— cmoney
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- I'm going to agree with the Strangler on this one. Bob is just jealous he spent his single days playing Dungeons & Dragons and making moronic comments on message boards, when he could have spent them like we did: hooking up with crazy chicks and making moronic comments on message boards.— dragoon6
- I never played Dungeon & Dragons. As for hooking up with crazy chicks, that's most likely because you were raised in an abusive home. Let me guess, your dad was a drunk and your mom was like a revolving door. Hey it paid the bills. Bet you even had a couple of spins with her. You are a strange character dragoon — Bob H
- Crazy chicks are cool...— FLYERS LOSERS FOR 37 YEARS!
- Who would kill to be able to come home to that every night?— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
- People forget that this happened during the Bush Administration, when people were completely stressed from the two illegal wars, the tanking of the economy, and the constant fear of terrorism that Bush and the Republicans pushed on us every day. Before we judge this woman, who is innocent until proven guilty (unlike the political prisoners being illegally held at Guantanamo Bay), we should take a hard look at how the Republicans are responsible for this and many other senseless deaths.— eldiablodelsol2009
