The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 20

Page C4 The Leaf-Chronicle www.theleafchronicle.com Tuesday, November 12, 2002 Judge to hand down sentence for winery widow By BILL POOVEY Associated Press MANCHESTER A well-todo widow finds out Tuesday if she will have to go to jail for arranging to have her husband of 52 years gunned down as he arrived home from their mountaintop winery. Sentiment in this rural community is divided over what sentence 74-year-old Louise Marlow should get. She pleaded "no contest" to reckless homicide in July to avoid going to trial on a murder charge. Circuit Judge Craig Johnson will decide if she goes to jail for seven years, performs community service, remains free on probation or receives an option that is some combination of those. "I think it is probably divided among the community, 50-50," said Freddie Bush, 40, a lifelong friend of the Marlows.

Joe Howard Marlow 75, was fatally shot Feb. 5, 2000, outside his home at Hillsboro, about 20 miles from the Monteagle winery he owned with his wife, Louise. When officers arrived, she was cradling her husband's head in her lap. She told investigators she was cooking supper when she heard shots. Investigators quickly ruled out robbery as a motive.

A money bag her husband was carrying and thousands of dollars in his pocket were not taken. She was arrested 19 months later after the accused triggerman cooperated with investigators and secretly recorded conversations with her. "I know she is a good person. If she did it, it was just that she didn't have any other way out," said Cynthia Pellam, 50, a lifelong friend who grew up across the street from the Marlows. Pellam recalled the wife's distress after an argument "when Joe told her he would see her out on the road digging ditches and no longer living in his house.

He kept his mistress up in the mountains and bought her a fine house and vehicles and boats." Pellam thinks Marlow should go free. "She has paid for it for years and years. He is just lucky he lived that long." she said. Some Marlow family members want the widow, whose real estate holdings are valued at more than $2 million, to serve time. A Sept.

I1 letter to the court from granddaughter Alicean Marlow, 23, asks that her grandmother receive the maximum sentence. "I was present at the scene the night the crime was committed and I had to sit there and watch as the blood flowed freely from my grandfather's body and as he gasped fighting for air," the letter said. "Not only am I living with the knowledge that my grandmother killed Pa Joe, but I am also dealing with the possibility that she could go free without paying for anything." One of Marlow's three daughters, Becky Stevens of Crossville, wrote in a letter to the court that her mother "should have to serve time." "Mama betrayed me and my family," Stevens wrote, "She lied for over a year- about having daddy killed. She kept telling us she didn't know who killed daddy and she was afraid that person would come after her." A clear motive for the slaying has never emerged. Prosecutors didn't attempt to link the murder to an arson at the winery eight months later.

Marlow's former son-in-law, Howard N. Givens, pleaded guilty, telling Whooping cranes continue slow migration Associated Press SEYMOUR, Bad weather has kept a flock of whooping cranes migrating to Florida on the ground more than in the air, but favorable conditions on Monday allowed to flock to continue its journey southward. The birds, which are being guided by ultralight aircraft, landed for an overnight stay at a wildlife refuge near Seymour, about 20 miles south of Columbus. However, three of the flock's 16 cranes got a ride in crates in the back of a truck after their human guides decided it was too dangerous for those birds to fly, The Indianapolis Star said in a story post- ON THE NET 1 Monteagle Wine Cellars: www.marlowwine.com. able to fly since arriving in the state.

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"In 1 those conversations she admitted to his shooting Joe Howard for her and that she was glad he did," Coffee County investigator Billy Cook said in his 2001 report. The recording caught Marlow telling Wimley, "If you hadn't killed him, he would have killed me the next day," Cook's report said. "After asking her many times, Why was Joe Howard going to kill you? She would not respond or give a reason. Finally she said, TIl take it to my grave," Cook wrote. Wimley is being held on a $300,000 bond, and his wife, Lori is free on $25,000 bond after being charged with helping him get rid of the gun used to kill Marlow.

Layne said a separate plea agreement in that case was being disO'Neal of Winchester, declined cussed. Wimley's attorney, Greg comment. Louise Marlow, who is free on a $500,000 bond, told a court official that she is an insulin-dependent diabetic, had three heart attacks in May and June and has since suffered a stroke. The judge put off the sentencing in October at the request of Marlow attorney Robert Carter to give a doctor time to provide new information about her condition. Carter said she is "entitled 1 to probation." Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves said probation for Marlow would be an "injustice to the rest of the family." "Just to let somebody be on probation because they are elderly or sick, I don't think that pays the price for what she did," Graves said.

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At 5 feet tall, whooping cranes are North America's tallest birds and one of the world's rarest, with only about 400 left. The whooping crane was near extinction in 1941, with only about 20 left. STATE BRIEFS Davis replacement unclear in state Senate KNOXVILLE The Fentress County Commission will appoint a successor for Democrat Lincoln Davis in the state Senate but when or who remains unclear. Davis has not yet announced his resignation date because he is weighing how long he can conduct Senate business before taking office as 4th District congressman. Police in Indiana find escapees' stolen pickup Associated Press duct tape and electrical cord in PORTAGE, Ind.

Police have northern Vanderburgh County, found the truck that they say two police said. escaped inmates used after they The truck was impounded, tied the truck's owner to a tree but there was no sign of two in southern Indiana, where they Kentucky inmates who police left him. The truck, a 1989 GMC say abducted Hawkins. Sierra Z71, was found Sunday at Branden L. Basham, 21, of a Days Inn in Portage, which Hopkins County, and is west of South Bend, Ind.

Chadrick E. Fulks, 25, of Logan The truck's owner, James County, Ky, escaped from the Hawkins, 42, of Hanson, Hopkins County Detention Cenfreed himself from the tree last ter on Nov. 4. They remain on week after being bound with the loose. The swearing-in for new members of Congress is Jan.

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