Mary Jo Bailey, 81, was sentenced to life for killing her romantic rival, Yvonne Menke, in December 1985. Bailey was sentenced on July 2, nearly 36 years after Menke's death.
"It needs to be said how brutal and how horrific this crime was. And cold-blooded," Judge Scott Nordstrand said on July 2Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared on Variety, The New York Post, and The Wrap.
“Other than her lack of denial, Ms. Bailey has not admitted what she did, she has not taken accountability for her actions, she has shown no remorse,” Assistant District Attorney Holly Wood-Webster said, per The Osceola Sun. “In fact, she told the bailiff after she was convicted that she can now retire and not worry about it. This is first-degree murder … Ms. Bailey should not be eligible for parole.
The cold case into Menke’s death wasn’t reinvestigated until 2021, when a criminal complaint reported the two women were romantically involved with the same man, Jack Owen, at the same time. Thirty-six years later, in 2021, Lt. Andrew Vitalis and Polk County Investigations Liaison Deputy Mark Biller started to reinvestigate the cold case with new interviews with witnesses.
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