It really strikes me how incredibly angry she is at her mother, but seems to be cool with her father, who heavily abused her and her mother. The prosecution, naturally, saw it a little different. He allowed his friends to brutally gang-rape her. Eric Boyles said the three walked out the front door to find a wrecked Mercury Mountaineer had spun out and crashed into their neighbor's culvert. Prior calculation and design (as the prosecution put it)? (Ohio Department of Corrections) An Ohio woman convicted of killing her husband in 1984 says she "accidentally" shot him before having their three children help bury his corpse in a garden. But what would it do for the three young children, to his family, even to her own family?. Linda, who has since been serving a sentence for murder, says she 'accidentally' shot him in the back of the headin October 1984 -and has always proclaimed her innocence. Speaking to the documentary crew, Wagner felt relieved to have a chance to tell her side. Now, I wish I'd never met him.". Since her incarceration, Linda spends her days at Ohio Reformatory for Women and has been rejected for parole seven times. Let us get somebody here. And I said Do you know where he is? And she goes Yes, I know where he is. And I said Where is he? And she says Youre standing on him.. The community can email the Ohio Parole Authority at the Hamilton County Prosecutors website. Linda Lee Couch, 67, is serving a life sentence in the Ohio Reformatory for Women for the aggravated murder of Walter Douglas Couch. But while the prosecution advocated for 20 years behind bars, the judge sentenced Ethan Couch to 10 years of probation and time in a rehab facility. Linda Couch said she believed she would die that night. He portrayed being such a loving father but that was just for show. Woman featured on I Am A Killer who killed husband, duped family into digging grave up for parole (NCD). Speaking to History's I Am A Killer, Linda explained: 'I was still a teen and I thought I was in love. Here's why. Evidence definitely points to premeditated murder. What Happened to the Victims and Their Families. She also went on a spending spree and purchased new furniture in the days after the murder, took the children on vacation and tried to get loans, Deters said in the release. Main Office - 512-406-5452 Parole Status Line - 844-512-0461. 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Think about how brutally cold that is, to involve your children in the burying of their father. Ethan Couch and seven other teens piled into this pick-up truck before a fatal crash that left four people dead. She then buried her dead husband in the three-foot-deep trench. Even though she feels safe where she is in Ghana, she still looks over her shoulder. Weeks before the shooting,Linda forged the deed to the house and transferred it into her name. Slowly but surely he was bringing me to a breakdown.'. "I would be beaten every day. Provocation isnt exactly a legal defence for homicide, per se, but it can be - if proven - a mitigating factor. Its not something that I normally talk about, but over the last few years I just learned, yknow, it happened, its part of who I am -- good and bad -- so what happens in your past stays with you no matter how hard you try to forget it or push it away, push it to the side.". LINDA LEE COUCH Number W017943 DOB 01/15/1954 Gender Female Race White Admission Date 03/18/1985 Institution Ohio Reformatory for Women Status INCARCERATED Victim Definition Ohio Revised Code Good Time & Earned Credit Decimal to Month Conversion Felony Sentencing Ranges Offense Information AGG MURDER Counts:1 ORC:2903.01 2 People hear her version or they see clips of her in the courtroom, but they dont see the aftereffects that it has on everybody else, Wagner said. During her trial, Couchs defense argued that Walter had abused Linda for years and that he struck her before he was shot. ET According to some, Linda Lee Couch is a cold-blooded murderer. On Oct. 9, four days before the murder, Linda Couch bought a gun. Story Saved You can find this story in My Bookmarks. But her daughter doesnt believe Couch has changed at all. In tonight's episode of Crime+Investigation's I Am A Killer, Linda Couch, from Ohio, tells how she met her partner Walter at a wedding reception when she was 16-years-old, and just months later he proposed. 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Self defence? The most common way of dealing with the trauma is to pretend it will just heal through time.. Tonya Couch was arrested today by the Los Angeles Police Department on a felony charge after being sent back to the United States from Mexico and was being held on no bail at Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown Los Angeles, police said, as they wait for Texas authorities to take her home. Linda Couch, convicted of murder in 1985, is up for parole. 'College was going to be my escape because I would have been there and away from him,' she explained. (WCPO). Unfortunately, LLC isn't the brightest woman and made mistakes and did things that made her unlikable and that was her downfall. She had other options besides murder, Wagner said. Linda Lee Couch . "And that was like the last thing that he said to us, and then he just got out of the car," McConnell said. Then, the young mum of three thought she had a way out - she had been accepted onto a college course, something Walter wasn't happy about. Hers is a complicated and sad tale, one marred by violence, bloodshed, trauma and death. We thought it was a big family fight, because there were people running around, except people were running around hollering and screaming," he told WCPO. "I am gonna go down here and try to find help.". Grade- A f*ing asshole who couldn't comprehend the kind of deep psychological damage abuse does to a person. McConnell scrambled out of his car and found Jennings lying in a ditch. After the hole was complete, she had her children help her carry the heavy, rolled-up rug up from the basement and into the back yard. Thats when they found his body. But the judge and jury did not agree and she has been in jail for his murder ever since. 11 Reply wlveith 3 yr. ago We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. All Rights Reserved. But she didnt believe her mother shot him in the back of the head during a fight, and neither did a Hamilton County jury. Linda wrapped her husbands body in a rug and found help to dig a ditch in the family yard. Couch deserves every day of her life sentence, and I hope that the community will join our office in opposing her possible parole, Nadel said. This station is part of Cox Media Group Television. Brian Jennings, pictured with his daughter Abby Jennings, was killed after stopping to help a stranded motorist. After Walter was buried, prosecutors said Linda continued living her life in a normal fashion. In a release advocating against her parole, current Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said she repeatedly lied to Walters close family about his whereabouts and told the children their father had abandoned them. The two-story house was owned by her husbands parents, Walter Couch Sr. and Dorothy Couch. Since her conviction, Couch has been denied parole more than half a dozen times. She also took the children on a vacation to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. In the same neighborhood, Ethan Couch, then 16, was having a party of his own. "The most common way of dealing with the trauma is to pretend it will just heal through time.".