(KRON) — A Los Altos girl who tried to kill her estranged husband whereas the couple was going by means of a bitter divorce will seem in entrance of a state parole board Friday asking for freedom.
Laura Jean Wenke was wearing bubble wrap and a jumpsuit when she repeatedly stabbed her husband within the neck and chest throughout the 2011 assault in Redwood Metropolis, prosecutors mentioned. The couple had an eight-year-old son collectively. Throughout her 2014 trial, she was dubbed the “Bubble Wrap Attacker.”
Wenke has served 13 years behind bars. The prisoner, who’s now 63 years previous, was 50 on the time of the tried homicide.
Wenke will ask to be launched from custody when she seems at a parole listening to Friday in Central California Ladies’s Facility California State Jail Chowchilla. She was denied parole at three prior hearings held in 2020, 2021, and 2023.
On September 15, 2021, she co-owned a Redwood Metropolis enterprise together with her 48-year-old husband. “They were going through a bitter divorce and (Wenke) was unhappy that victim had a new girlfriend,” the San Mateo County District Lawyer’s Workplace wrote.
That night, she drove to the enterprise wearing bubble wrap with a mechanics jumpsuit over it. Her husband was engaged on his laptop when Wenke walked in, paralyzed him utilizing a stun gun, and commenced stabbing him within the chest and neck, prosecutors mentioned.
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Wenke was the beneficiary of her husband’s $2 million life insurance coverage coverage. The sufferer survived after present process life-saving remedy at a hospital.
The spouse pleaded not responsible by cause of madness. A jury deliberated for simply 4 hours on June 3, 2014, earlier than discovering Wenke responsible of tried homicide with premeditation, home violence, and assault with a lethal weapon. The jury delivered a second verdict discovering that Wenke was sane throughout her knife assault.
A month later, a San Mateo County decide sentenced her to serve 11 years to life in state jail.
