Death Penalty Sought in Attack on Elderly Women
Chatham County prosecutors said Monday they plan to seek the death penalty against a former housekeeper charged in the December beating deaths of two elderly women at an upscale retirement community.
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Barbara Turrentine Clark, 41, of Toomer Loop Road in Pittsboro, is charged with two counts of murder and one count each of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. The charges stem from a Dec. 5 attack on three elderly women at Galloway Ridge at Fearrington, off U.S. Highway 15/501 north of Pittsboro.
Authorities said Clark attacked Margaret Murta, 92, her roommate Mary Corcoran, 82, and their neighbor, Rebecca Fisher, 77, with pepper spray and a cane-like object during a dispute over money.
Murta and Corcoran died from their injuries. Fisher was seriously injured but recovered.
Defense attorneys had tried to get Clark committed to a mental hospital for treatment, but a judge rejected that move last month.
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