www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_54671.aspWoman Gets 25 Years For Killing Father, Encasing Him In Concrete
posted August 25, 2004
A Bledsoe County woman has been given a 25-year prison sentence for her part in killing her father, stuffing him in a barrel and encased him in concrete.
Michelle Martin, of Bledsoe County, on Wednesday entered a guilty plea to second degree murder in the death of Michael Martin.
Authorities said in the incident two years ago, the father and daughter had argued. They said the daughter shot her father while he was sleeping.
They said her mother and her mother's boyfriend helped her put his body in a barrel along with the gun. They then poured concrete on the top and buried the barrel.
Pamela Martin, and her boyfriend, William Burchard, are facing charges of abuse of a corpse and being accessories after the fact.
The murder trial had been set to begin Wednesday in Bledsoe County Circuit Court.
Ms. Martin had led investigators to the victim’s body in August 2002. That was 10 months after relatives began asking questions about his whereabouts.