Sheila LaBarre

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Speaker 13 for one young man searching for love a bucolic farm in new hampshire offers the promise of romance and a fresh start

Speaker 8 it was everything that he had hoped for he wanted to have a girlfriend she owns the farm 115 acres she is the richest woman in town

Speaker 13 but when he suddenly disappears it becomes clear this idyllic life is not what it seems.

Speaker 18 At first, it didn't seem like it was going to turn into such a big case, but as it went along, it became huge.

Speaker 13 Investigators uncover a twisted world of sexual seduction, vengeance, and control.

Speaker 21 It was one of the largest homicide scenes in the state of New Hampshire ever.

Speaker 15 You've got a predator predator going after the same type of prey. We started getting real concerned that we were going to have other victims.

Speaker 13 A quiet rural town with a monster in its midst. I don't know if he's been killed.
I don't know.

Speaker 7 It was almost immediately apparent from the first time I met her.

Speaker 10 She was absolutely stark raving man.

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Speaker 13 February 24th, 2006.

Speaker 13 Temperatures are hovering just below freezing in Epping, New Hampshire.

Speaker 13 It's been four days since Caroline Lodge, who lives about 45 miles south in Massachusetts, has heard from her son, and she's starting to worry.

Speaker 23 I was working a patrol shift as a patrol sergeant, and we received a 911 call from Carolyn Lodge, who was the mother of an individual in his 20s named Kenneth County.

Speaker 8 She had concerns because Kenny had some mental limitations.

Speaker 8 His mother would check in on him sort of on a very frequent basis to make sure all the normal things were being taken care of.

Speaker 17 He had a job working in a car wash. Carolyn talks to his boss.
He hasn't showed up for work.

Speaker 8 Carolyn had historically had fairly continuous contacts with her son, so it was alarming to her.

Speaker 13 Caroline tells police Kenny had only recently moved to Epping, New Hampshire to live with his girlfriend, 47-year-old Sheila Labar.

Speaker 8 Kenny wanted to be a normal guy. He wanted to have connections, with friendships, and he wanted to be in a romantic relationship and have a girlfriend.

Speaker 1 However, Kenny's sudden move has his mother worried.

Speaker 17 She says Sheila has taken him away from the setup that he had and isn't returning him to his regular life.

Speaker 17 And she considers Sheila being Kenny's abductor.

Speaker 8 Carolyn was somewhat worried about Kenneth's ability to take care of himself, stand up for himself. She was a mom who was worried about her son.

Speaker 13 Epping police agreed to pay a visit to Sheila's farm.

Speaker 15 On February 24th, 2006, Sergeant Gallagher and I did go to the Labar farm.

Speaker 15 We banged on the rear door of the home. We asked Sheila, where's Kenny?

Speaker 15 A few minutes later, Kenny came down wrapped in a towel.

Speaker 15 And we asked him if he wanted to be there. He said, oh, heck yeah.
He looked happy to be there. He told us he wanted to be there.

Speaker 15 We don't have that type of power to forcibly remove an adult from a location that they want to be in, and we shouldn't. That was that, and we left.

Speaker 13 Police confirmed that Kenny seems fine. However, a month later on March 23rd, 2006, Caroline Lodge calls Epping police again.

Speaker 8 Before Sheila invited Kenny to come up and live with her, he had an apartment with a friend in Massachusetts.

Speaker 17 Carolyn had spoken to his roommate, found out that Kenny hadn't been around in more than a month

Speaker 17 and she spoke to Sheila. and Sheila said that Kenny wasn't around anymore.
So now he really is missing.

Speaker 13 Born in Tewkesbury, Massachusetts on July 18th, 1981, Kenneth County Jr. struggled most of his adult life.

Speaker 17 Kenny County was a mentally disabled man. His childhood had been relatively carefree.

Speaker 26 He was well cared for.

Speaker 17 But he became an adult and he wanted to get away and be independent.

Speaker 8 He finally was able to get an apartment, live with a friend.

Speaker 8 His mother certainly helped set him up to have the life of a normal 20-year-old despite some of his limitations.

Speaker 13 Kenny moved 15 minutes away from his mother to the nearby town of Wilmington, Massachusetts with his roommate, who helped Kenny get a job at a car wash.

Speaker 17 Kenny wanted to be an independent adult man. He was desperately lonely, which is why he joined a telephone dating service.

Speaker 8 This is before the age of apps and people meeting in that way. And so there were phone chat lines.
And people would call these phone lines in an effort to meet somebody to go out on dates with.

Speaker 13 It was on a chat line that Kenneth first met 47-year-old Sheila Labar.

Speaker 8 Beyond simply being attractive and having a great southern accent, Sheila was very adept at reading people

Speaker 8 and giving them what she felt they wanted.

Speaker 13 The youngest of six children, Sheila Labar grew up in Fort Payne, Alabama.

Speaker 15 From what I hear, it is not a very affluent area.

Speaker 15 She had a really rough childhood.

Speaker 13 As a teenager, Sheila loved to sing and dreamed of becoming a model or country music singer when she grew up.

Speaker 6 There comes a time

Speaker 6 when we will be cold and peace.

Speaker 10 This was someone who was once a beauty contestant.

Speaker 7 She really was an extremely stunning young lady.

Speaker 13 In 1987, Sheila was in her late 20s when she first met Dr. Wilfred Labar of Epping, New Hampshire through a singles ad.

Speaker 27 Everybody in town knew Wilfred Labar.

Speaker 21 He was a chiropractor by trade, and I think that's, you know, where he made his money for his horse farm, which is a very beautiful piece of property.

Speaker 13 widowed at 57 the chiropractor lived alone on the sprawling 115 acre property

Speaker 17 he was at a point in his life he was lonely he was looking for female companionship so he puts an ad in a newspaper and sheila answers the ad

Speaker 17 there's a tremendous age difference She is in her late 20s, maybe 30 years old.

Speaker 29 He's 61.

Speaker 17 But it doesn't seem to matter.

Speaker 2 Sheila was boisterous and free,

Speaker 12 and she easily drew Bill in.

Speaker 13 After a few visits in Alabama, Bill was smitten with Sheila, and she returned with him to Epping.

Speaker 17 Sheila stuck out in Epping, New Hampshire, like fire engine red lips in a black and white movie. She was flamboyant.
She drove a Mercedes.

Speaker 17 She was in town for maybe 48 hours before everyone knew she was there.

Speaker 13 But Sheila had no trouble settling into life on the farm.

Speaker 7 Sheila was an animal lover and especially loved her rabbits and was doting on them.

Speaker 13 Though Bill and Sheila never married, she took his last name. However, 13 years after she arrived in New Hampshire, tragedy struck.

Speaker 8 Bill LeBar died at a somewhat early age in 2000 because of heart problems.

Speaker 8 And when he passed away, despite having family and children, the entire estate went to Sheila.

Speaker 30 She inherited everything.

Speaker 30 The farm, the acres of land, the Mercedes, the Cadillac. I think there was a couple of trucks.

Speaker 17 The family is shocked to find out that in his last years, he had changed his will, giving the family only scraps and leaving everything to Sheila.

Speaker 17 She is the richest woman in town.

Speaker 13 Sheila worked hard to keep the massive farm running, but she was lonely.

Speaker 13 After Bill's death, she turned to phone dating.

Speaker 15 Sheila loved going on these chat lines, and she would call people and talk all night.

Speaker 13 And in February of 2006, after Sheila first spoke with Kenneth County through the chat line, their relationship moved quickly.

Speaker 8 They went out on their first date on Valentine's Day.

Speaker 31 He was a young guy that was sort of struggling to find his way in the world. Life wasn't always easy for him.

Speaker 8 Sheila invited Kenny to come up and live at the farm.

Speaker 8 There were expectations that he would help maintain the enormous property and that he would have a home.

Speaker 13 Just days after their first date, Kenny moved an hour north to Epping, New Hampshire.

Speaker 17 Kenny moves in with Sheila. This is really his dream.
He's independent of his mother. He's out in the real world.
He's through the moon. It's for Sheila Labar, crazy in love.

Speaker 13 The promising new life seemed the answer to both of their prayers.

Speaker 13 But just a month after the move, Kenny's mother, Caroline, contacts authorities for a second time.

Speaker 10 On March 23rd, 2006, Carolyn Lodge had called Sheila Labar to check on her son and found out that Kenneth was no longer at the house. Sheila, she believed that Kenneth had gone back to Massachusetts.

Speaker 8 Carolyn called the police, demanding that something was wrong and they needed to go find her son.

Speaker 13 Coming up, investigators return to Sheila's farm.

Speaker 15 We decided we were going to go out to check for Kenneth County one more time.

Speaker 32 As soon as I kicked the door, very eerily, somebody yelled, What are you doing?

Speaker 13 And what they find is haunting.

Speaker 33 I want to know where he is. That's all.

Speaker 4 Get that bag.

Speaker 13 March 24th, 2006.

Speaker 13 Investigators in Epping, New Hampshire are en route to Sheila Labar's farm for the second time in a month in search of missing 24-year-old Kenny County.

Speaker 15 I had gotten on duty at 5 p.m.

Speaker 15 and right around 6 p.m., we decided we were going to go out to Sheila Labar's house to check for Kenneth County one more time.

Speaker 10 As we drove out there that night to Sheila's house, it was dark.

Speaker 32 Somebody was burning something.

Speaker 10 There was a barrel, a 55 gallon rusted out barrel, a burned pile on the ground.

Speaker 10 There were no lights on in the house, no lights on outside.

Speaker 8 Here in New Hampshire, burning debris isn't something that's uncommon. When people burn, though, they get a burn permit.
It has to be during certain hours.

Speaker 8 This was at night, and it is dark out, and there are burning piles right next to the house.

Speaker 18 All Sheila's vehicles were at the property. We had every reason to believe at that point in time that

Speaker 10 possibly both Sheila and Kenny were still in the home. Ultimately, we knocked on the door and tried to get a hold of somebody.

Speaker 12 Nobody came to the door, and we walked back out to take a closer look at the burned pit that was in the middle of the front yard.

Speaker 28 I was extremely happy not to be alone because this was getting spookier and more eerie by the second.

Speaker 13 Investigators are looking around when they spot something unusual jutting from the burn pile.

Speaker 15 I put my gloves on, I bent down, I'll never forget it. I picked it up and I looked at it and I showed Sergeant Gallagher.

Speaker 23 In the fire pit, there was what appeared to be

Speaker 5 a bone.

Speaker 10 As a police officer, the sense really kicks in that something is very seriously wrong at that home. And the concern for Kenny and Sheila

Speaker 16 had gone through the roof.

Speaker 15 Is it plausible that that could be an animal bone?

Speaker 23 Absolutely.

Speaker 15 But we wanted to enter that residence to make sure that there wasn't anything happening to Sheila. Wasn't anything happening to Kenny? We said, well, we got to get into the home now.

Speaker 18 As soon as I kicked the door, very eerily, somebody yelled,

Speaker 14 what are you doing?

Speaker 10 And it actually made me jump.

Speaker 13 The officers suddenly find they are not alone.

Speaker 15 Sheila comes down the road and kind of starts screaming immediately. What are you doing?

Speaker 27 Sheila had been grocery shopping.

Speaker 16 This is just perfect timing.

Speaker 10 We explained that we were there to check on Kenneth.

Speaker 12 Said, yeah, he left.

Speaker 32 He left on his own.

Speaker 13 Sheila says Kenny left a few days earlier and she has not heard from him since.

Speaker 23 That's when I asked her what the bone in the fire pit was from.

Speaker 18 She immediately stated, well, that's a rabbit or a pedophile.

Speaker 23 But I asked her, why did you say that it's a rabbit or a pedophile?

Speaker 19 And she claimed that she did not say it was a pedophile, that she never said that.

Speaker 23 Our concerns were really, really high at that point that something terrible happened to Kenneth.

Speaker 10 And we asked her if we could take the bone that we found in the burn pile.

Speaker 32 And she said no.

Speaker 13 Sheila demands the officers leave her property.

Speaker 15 She said, don't come back without a search warrant or something to that effect. So we got in the car.
You know, I was not happy that we were leaving, but that's what we had to do.

Speaker 15 There's a whole lot of red flags that I had just observed, and I just didn't like driving away from it. But we did.

Speaker 15 When we leave, we still have a missing person, so that starts a clock.

Speaker 13 The next day, a judge signs the search warrant, and at 8:50 a.m., authorities return to Sheila's farm.

Speaker 22 We found Sheila Labar kneeling in her front yard by the fire pit.

Speaker 16 She was covered in ashes

Speaker 19 and sitting on this chair, there was a plain plastic Walmart bag.

Speaker 13 Noticeably absent is the bone officers saw the day prior.

Speaker 13 With their suspicions heightened, police ask Sheila if she is armed and she proceeds to hand over a.38 caliber handgun.

Speaker 10 We had asked her if she had any other weapons.

Speaker 27 She said no.

Speaker 23 She exposed her breasts to show us she had no weapons.

Speaker 18 It was very, very

Speaker 23 strange.

Speaker 23 Two of the officers talk with her and the rest of us began a search of the outside of the home.

Speaker 13 An officer asks Sheila outright, where is Kenny?

Speaker 13 He said, I call him Adam

Speaker 33 Olympian Labar. He wanted to change his name to my name.
Sheila, can I ask you?

Speaker 17 Go ahead.

Speaker 33 The night before you left, what went on here? Would you argue, fight?

Speaker 33 Was there anything went on between you and when do you think he left? I don't know. I fell asleep.
The bottom line, and the chief and I both know, and you want to know where he is.

Speaker 33 That's all.

Speaker 1 He's in that bag.

Speaker 33 He is in the bag.

Speaker 18 Which bag did you say he was in when you said, I guess he's in there?

Speaker 34 The Walmart bag.

Speaker 18 When we looked in the bag, it appeared to be full of bone fragments.

Speaker 19 I felt like that was the worst possible scenario that could have happened.

Speaker 16 I obviously suspected that he was deceased and couldn't comprehend what would have happened to him to reduce him to be in a bag.

Speaker 13 Coming up, Sheila exhibits more bizarre behavior.

Speaker 27 She stated that she would only go to the police department if she could bring one of her rabbits.

Speaker 13 And Sheila accuses Kenny County of the unthinkable.

Speaker 34 He had been raping children, his family.

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Speaker 13 I saw the darkness.

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Speaker 13 In March 2006, authorities investigating the disappearance of 24-year-old Kenny County are searching a farm in Epping, New Hampshire owned by Kenny's girlfriend, 47-year-old Sheila Labar.

Speaker 27 It was filthy.

Speaker 29 There were rabbits all over the place.

Speaker 12 Probably, you know, 100-plus rabbits at this home.

Speaker 13 Officers are pressing Sheila for more information after she made a terrifying comment concerning Kenny.

Speaker 18 She said he's right there in the Walmart bag.

Speaker 21 And she pointed to the bag that was on the chair.

Speaker 33 Do you think somebody killed Kenny?

Speaker 33 I don't know if he's been killed. I don't know.
Okay.

Speaker 33 Unless that's him out there. Why do you keep saying that? I mean, you keep telling me that.

Speaker 34 Because it's too many bones for a rabbit.

Speaker 13 Investigators collect the bag full of bone fragments for testing and send Sheila down to the police station for a formal interview.

Speaker 27 She stated that she would only go to the police department if she could bring one of her rabbits.

Speaker 13 So

Speaker 34 when did you first meet him? On February the 14th of 2006 at the Ashworth. But Forest originally he hit me up with messages on a chat line.
Okay, and how did it go when you met her?

Speaker 34 Well, my first thought was, when I looked at it, I thought, well, she like, I don't want to talk to myself about that, but I was thinking, I'm 47.

Speaker 34 You know, he's legal age. He wants to chase me, so I'm off him.
You know, they'll talk.

Speaker 13 She says that their relationship started strong, but ended abruptly on March 21st or 22nd when she discovered that Adam was hiding a dark secret.

Speaker 34 His Kenneth Michael County, but he wanted to change his name. Okay.
But what happened that last day that you saw Adam?

Speaker 34 He He confessed this to me, that he has raped numerous children.

Speaker 34 He didn't start in with this.

Speaker 34 Obviously, I wouldn't let him stay in my home. Did you say anything to him? Yes.

Speaker 34 I said, you're a pet.

Speaker 34 You're a pedophile.

Speaker 13 However, authorities find the accusations against Kenny are simply not true.

Speaker 12 There is no evidence and not even a sliver of an investigation against Kenneth County for ever being a pedophile.

Speaker 10 There's no evidence of that.

Speaker 16 There's no reports of that.

Speaker 13 Sheila says after Kenny left her farm, she burned everything he touched, including the mattress that he had been sleeping on in her living room.

Speaker 34 It scrolls me up.

Speaker 13 Detectives try moving the focus back to Kenny's whereabouts.

Speaker 34 Okay,

Speaker 34 how did those bones get in your fire?

Speaker 34 I don't have the answer. You don't have the answer? I'm only the one being a cue.

Speaker 34 Is it possible that maybe he did something

Speaker 34 and there was an accident? If he tortured me, I would not admit it. Why not?

Speaker 34 Why not?

Speaker 32 Chill.

Speaker 34 Just come off the troll, Sheila. It will make you feel better.

Speaker 13 After a few hours, Sheila has worked herself into near hysterics and asks to end the interview.

Speaker 8 We still did not have enough to make the arrest of Sheila Labar.

Speaker 8 So it was determined she would be released that night, but that police would tail her and follow her. After she left the police department, she did go back to Manchester and stayed in a hotel.

Speaker 13 Investigators ask Sheila not to return to her residence until they have finished processing the scene.

Speaker 10 We had 60-plus officers do the large exterior search at Sheila's farm.

Speaker 15 The exterior of the home comprised two burn pits.

Speaker 13 The property is over 100 acres and the search efforts are extensive.

Speaker 23 We had found hedge clippers, a knife handle, a saw handle.

Speaker 23 There were bone fragments found in that fire pit.

Speaker 10 We collected as much evidence from the outside as we could.

Speaker 19 Those bone fragments went off to the University of Maine.

Speaker 13 Investigators hear back from the lab with chilling results.

Speaker 21 Within a matter of four hours, that came back that those bone fragments were indeed human.

Speaker 12 The property was blocked off by police.

Speaker 10 We had shut down the scene as an act of crime scene.

Speaker 13 When the search team enters the farmhouse, no one is prepared for what they find.

Speaker 15 I walk into the home and I'm looking around and I remember the state trooper in charge, he walks in, he says, what do you see? And I'm colorblind, so I have a tough time seeing some colors.

Speaker 15 He said, it's a bloodbath in here.

Speaker 15 And I looked at him and I said, what do you mean? And this trooper started pointing out blood everywhere.

Speaker 15 There's blood here. There's blood here.
There's blood here. Literally, there was blood everywhere inside this home.

Speaker 13 In the living room where Kenny slept, they find an empty area where they believe his mattress used to be.

Speaker 12 There was blood cast off found on the wall, consistent with the swinging of a blunt force trauma instrument or a knife.

Speaker 15 So obviously that kicks off an exhaustive search.

Speaker 13 Investigators find nearly 1,000 hours of audio recordings of Sheila's conversations with her husband, Bill Labar, Kenny County, and other men.

Speaker 13 And detectives are quick to notice another disturbing detail.

Speaker 17 The crime scene investigators noticed that the blood splatters were not all the same age. Some was fresh, some was old, some was dust-covered.

Speaker 10 I've seen my fair share of death. You know, there was a creepy feeling something horrific happened there.

Speaker 13 Coming up. Is this farm a place of refuge or revenge?

Speaker 8 Neighbors had called about odd behavior.

Speaker 31 Neighbors would see men running away from the farm.

Speaker 13 March 27, 2006.

Speaker 13 New Hampshire state investigators are searching Sheila Labar's farmhouse for missing 24-year-old Kenneth County when they come across an appalling scene.

Speaker 17 They find blood splatter all over the house and blood splatter of different ages. So it didn't all happen at the same time.

Speaker 13 Blood samples are collected and sent out for analysis.

Speaker 13 While awaiting lab results, authorities dig deeper into Sheila's background.

Speaker 8 Sheila was quite a character in town.

Speaker 8 The police were familiar with the Labar farm.

Speaker 10 I think Sheila and Wilfrid Labar's relationship was more tumultuous than anything else. The police department would be involved several times with domestic disputes.

Speaker 13 According to friends and neighbors, after her husband's death, there was a revolving door of men in Sheila's life.

Speaker 30 I knew that Sheila was pretty promiscuous.

Speaker 8 She didn't hide it, I'll tell you that.

Speaker 30 She was picking up her men from the homeless shelter.

Speaker 8 Neighbors had called about odd behavior, seeing men go down to the farm, and then they would see them being dropped off by Sheila at the end of the driveway, sometimes with bruises and markings on their body.

Speaker 31 Neighbors would see men, you know, running away from the farm.

Speaker 13 Neighbors tell investigators that before Kenney County showed up, there was another man living with Sheila named Michael DeLoge.

Speaker 31 Sheila's neighbors said he was a man who she picked up at a local homeless shelter in Portsmouth.

Speaker 13 However, when detectives track down Michael DeLoge's family, they learn that no one has seen him since July of 2005, about seven months before Kenny moved in.

Speaker 17 Michael DeLoge is 38 years old and he has been out on his own for a while. His family's used to him not being around, from not hearing from him.

Speaker 17 They say he has a drinking problem. He's been known to take drugs, which is he's in the halfway house.

Speaker 31 She brought him to the farm. She gave him a place to live and food, and he was working at the farm for her.
They engage in a very intense sexual relationship.

Speaker 31 I think he saw Sheila as providing some sense of security.

Speaker 17 At first, Michael DeLoge's family is thrilled.

Speaker 17 But one day, they get a letter from Sheila accusing them of abusing Mikey. And this is all confusing and frightening to them.
And of course, none of it was true.

Speaker 13 Investigators also find audio and video of Michael in Sheila's batch of recordings.

Speaker 34 2004, this tape is for my mother. And I started to remember things about the past.
You really messed me up. You psychologically damaged me.
And if it wasn't for Sheila,

Speaker 34 I wouldn't know half the things I know.

Speaker 31 Now that I know what I know, I don't want to visit you.

Speaker 13 In February of 2005, Michael's family received another letter from Sheila's address asking them to leave him and Sheila alone.

Speaker 17 The family of Mikey Deloche has been extorted into leaving them alone.

Speaker 17 The next time they try to get in touch, Sheila said he's not here anymore.

Speaker 14 You know, he left.

Speaker 17 He didn't say where he was going.

Speaker 28 Family members had actually assumed that he had left there and just went traveling.

Speaker 28 The search kind of turned into what happened to Michael?

Speaker 22 Where is he?

Speaker 10 And does any of the evidence that was already located in the home, such as blood spatter or bloodstains, Did any of it possibly belong to him?

Speaker 13 While investigators sift through the evidence collected on the farm, they get word that Sheila may be looking to skip town.

Speaker 8 A woman came by the police department in Epping.

Speaker 8 She explained that she and her daughter were at a pet store the day before and they'd met Sheila who had one of her rabbits with her. She offered them money in order to care for her rabbit.

Speaker 8 The three women ended up having a conversation, which led to Sheila going back home with them.

Speaker 8 They were watching the evening news, and the news was reporting the missing person's investigation regarding Ken County.

Speaker 8 Sheila Labar at that time started explaining that Ken County was her boyfriend.

Speaker 13 The woman says Sheila then asked for a ride to a local bank.

Speaker 8 Sheila, she was concerned she was being framed and that she needed to get bail money.

Speaker 8 The woman described driving Sheila Labar to a branch of TD Bank and observing Sheila Labar withdraw $85,000 from the bank.

Speaker 8 After that, she dropped Sheila Labar off on the side of the road and had no further contact with her.

Speaker 27 I had been fearful the whole time that she would leave.

Speaker 28 I know that she had access to funds.

Speaker 8 We are trying to figure out what our next moves are while we're continuing to build the case.

Speaker 8 We are still sorting through all the stuff that's in the house.

Speaker 13 Investigators dig deeper into the hundreds of hours of audio recordings.

Speaker 15 I haven't seen another cachet of recordings like that in the rest of my career.

Speaker 13 In these recordings, Sheila seems to coerce her male visitors into making alleged confessions.

Speaker 35 I am struggling with the issue of whether to go forward

Speaker 35 to have charges brought against this individual by severe, repeated,

Speaker 35 horrible acts of child molestation.

Speaker 22 I could hear her questioning Kenneth about being a pedophile and asking him over and over again, you are a pedophile, aren't you?

Speaker 18 And at some point, he did say yes.

Speaker 10 And then she said, Kenneth County is now pretending to throw up.

Speaker 21 And then she said,

Speaker 10 why are you passing out?

Speaker 10 Kenneth County is now faking that he passed out.

Speaker 13 The recordings suggest Kenny was under duress when he made these statements.

Speaker 19 There was no evidence that he was a pedophile.

Speaker 10 No indication that he ever did anything like that.

Speaker 13 Investigators sorting through photos in the house make another disturbing discovery.

Speaker 31 The most most eerie picture was this picture that she took herself of Kenneth County at the Walmart in Epping

Speaker 31 and he has a gas can in the front of his cart and that was within a day or so of her killing him and burning him.

Speaker 13 When the state lab finally issues its report, the findings are damning.

Speaker 31 There was actual blood spatter that was matched to Kenneth County and his DNA.

Speaker 17 They used DNA technology to determine that both Kenneth County's and Michael DeLoge's blood were all over the walls at Sheila's house.

Speaker 13 On March 31st, authorities are finally able to issue an arrest warrant for Sheila. There's only one problem.

Speaker 18 Nobody knew where she was.

Speaker 19 You know, I had some fears that something may happen where she would never face trial for this.

Speaker 13 Coming up, the manhunt for Sheila intensifies.

Speaker 26 There was a bolo put out for Sheila Labar.

Speaker 15 Be on the lookout.

Speaker 13 And investigators' worst fears are realized.

Speaker 15 It starts to become clear that we may have more victims.

Speaker 13 Sheila Labar, the prime suspect in the disappearance of 24-year-old Kenny County, has just withdrawn over $85,000 and fled town.

Speaker 15 So there was a bolo put out for Sheila Labar to be on the lookout,

Speaker 15 and that gets broadcast through Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Speaker 17 It was on the news that the police had issued a warrant for Sheila's arrest, which caused a witness to phone in that she'd been in Revere, Massachusetts.

Speaker 8 He

Speaker 8 told us she was hitchhiking and looking for a ride down to Massachusetts, and so he picked her up.

Speaker 8 And so police were sent to their location and they found who they believed to be Sheila Labar

Speaker 8 in a parking lot. However, her hair was now dyed red.

Speaker 8 She denied that she was Sheila Labar for quite some time, but it was apparent based on the photographs police had of her, and she was finally arrested.

Speaker 13 On April 2nd, 2006, Sheila is finally behind bars, but investigators still have questions.

Speaker 8 We come across some of the blood smears spatter that were in the home that did not match Mike DeLoge or Penn County's DNA.

Speaker 15 As we're investigating this, it starts to become clear that we may have more victims.

Speaker 13 With evidence piling up against her, Sheila finally comes clean. But there's a catch.

Speaker 23 After she was arrested, she had obtained legal counsel.

Speaker 10 She wanted wanted to plead insanity, but understanding in order to do so that she had to provide a confession.

Speaker 31 She confessed to the state psychiatric expert about her version, exactly how she killed both of these men. Now, do I believe those versions are true? No, I don't.

Speaker 31 But then she said, I was not sane when I did it.

Speaker 13 In April of 2006, Sheila Labar is charged with the murders of Kenneth County and Michael DeLoge.

Speaker 10 Ultimately, she killed Kenneth.

Speaker 23 I think she probably stabbed him over and over again, which created all that blood cast while he lay in bed.

Speaker 18 When she realized that she had killed him, she decided to dismember him

Speaker 22 and burn him in an attempt to

Speaker 12 hide.

Speaker 18 I think Michael DeLoge suffered much the same fate.

Speaker 13 At her trial in May of 2008, Sheila pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.

Speaker 7 It was almost immediately apparent from the first time I met her.

Speaker 10 She was absolutely stark raving mad.

Speaker 7 That's basically the heart of any insanity.

Speaker 4 The client did it,

Speaker 28 but should not be held responsible for it.

Speaker 17 There's a big difference between mental illness and insanity. Insanity is a legal distinction.

Speaker 17 The PERP did not understand the difference and quality between right and wrong.

Speaker 8 Sheila, purposely, after finding out she could be held accountable, went to lengths to take out money, escape the jurisdiction, hide her appearance. And these are all things that show

Speaker 8 she knows what she's doing.

Speaker 13 On June 20th, 2008, after 13 hours of deliberation, jurors return with a verdict. Guilty on all counts.

Speaker 31 It was a very emotional verdict. Both Kenneth County's family and Michael Delaj's mother were in the courtroom.

Speaker 31 There was a lot of just plain relief and tears by those family members that this woman met justice.

Speaker 5 There is no evidence against Kenneth County or Michael Deloge for ever being a pedophile, ever committing such an act or being sex offenders.

Speaker 13 Even now, detectives wonder: are there more victims?

Speaker 10 I think it was more towards the end of the search, toes that were found at Sheila's home and sent off for a DNA comparison, and they could not match Michael DeLoge or Kenneth County.

Speaker 10 To this date, Sheila has never mentioned the third victim.

Speaker 19 She will not talk about it, and that section of this case remains open.

Speaker 36 Sheila Labar is serving consecutive life sentences in the New Hampshire Correctional Facility for Women without any possibility of parole.

Speaker 36 No other victims have ever been identified on Sheila's property.