She killed her husband — or did she?

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By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
August 31, 2010



Reporting from Burney, Calif. — On an April morning 18 years ago, Kristi Lyn Bateson dressed her two small daughters for the hourlong drive to Mount Shasta Mall. Her husband, Charlie, was sleeping after his graveyard shift at the sawmill.

"Hon, we ran down to Redding for a few more groceries and to look at a few things in the Target ad," she wrote on a note fixed to the refrigerator with the N from 3-year-old Kayla's alphabet magnets. She'd be home around 1 p.m., she said, signing it: "Love, your three girls."

Charlie probably never read the note. He was found at noon, dead from a single gunshot wound to the head. The body position and blood spatter told the coroner he had been asleep on his back when the shot was fired.

Within two weeks, police had four sources connecting the killing to drug deals at the house where the Batesons had moved less than two weeks earlier. But homicide investigators were looking at Kristi. It's usually the spouse, they told her.

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[LiberalFighter]

1. I'm wondering if the police investigated the probability that it was intended for previous renters?

Probably didn't do a very good job.

The judge of the trial should be removed and lose his damn pension too.

[ThomCat]

2. I agree.

:(

[arikara]

3. I'm starting to think that they are not very successful

in solving murder cases so they often railroad someone just to close the case. We've had several murders around here in the past few years that are still totally unsolved. This is another good reason to oppose the death penalty.