Corina Voegeli-Burton, 29
WI, Darlington, Lafayette Co.
Corina's murder has left her 3 Children, ages 6, 9 & 12 at the time of her murder, to live with their Father and to grow up without their Mother in their lives
Corina was strangled to death by her former boyfriend, David Carpenter, 29. A search was launched after Corina’s children woke to find their mother missing and she failed to call her boyfriend before going to work. Her body was found in an abandoned mine shaft. There was evidence that she had been sexually assaulted prior to her death.
David had been stalking and threatening Corina since she had broken up with him two or three months earlier. In the weeks before the murder he told several acquaintances that he planned to kill Corina and to dump her body in a mine shaft. After leaving David, Corina changed the locks on her doors and her phone numbers more than once. She and her children stayed overnight with friends at least twice because she was afraid of David. She told her current boyfriend that David had threatened to kill her on several occasions. The night of the murder David shot at her boyfriend’s truck and made threatening phone calls to him.
On July 23, 2005, David was arrested at Corina’s residence in what law enforcement officers described as a domestic dispute. On August 1 Corina filed a petition for a temporary restraining order. A court dismissed the petition on August 9 at her request. She was killed the following day.
David Carpenter pled guilty to First-Degree Reckless Homicide and Third Degree Sexual Assault, amended from First-Degree Intentional Homicide and First-Degree Sexual Assault, and to a felony charge of Hiding a Corpse. He was sentenced to forty years in prison and twenty years of extended supervision for the homicide; and, to five years in prison and five years of extended supervision for each of the other charges, with all sentences to run concurrently. Two counts of stalking, including one resulting in bodily harm, were dismissed as a part of the plea bargain. He pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of Criminal Damage to Property for shooting the truck belonging to Corina’s boyfriend and was sentenced to 270 days in jail. A charge of Threatening Harm by Unlawful Use of a Phone was dropped.
Source:
WCADV.org - Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence - Homicide Reports - 2005 DV Homicide Report
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