It is no secret that Shannon Gillepie wanted her father to be out of the house, and relatives told the investigators.
However, it will take years to combine it with a cruel murder.
Family members’ testimonies united the mystery that began when in 2018 A family patriarch was found at his Clearwater at home and beaten to death. More than two years later, Gillespie was arrested for the murder of her father.
After Pinell was sworn after 3.5 hours of consideration, she was sentenced to life prison late Tuesday.
“We are delighted that the jurors have spent time, reviewed all the evidence, and finally agreed with our assessment of who the killer is,” said Doug Ellis, a Pinell-Pac’s state lawyer in an interview with Bay Times, who prosecuted.
2018 November 15 Detectives arrived at home in 1500. In the Meadow Dale Drive block near Clearwater.
They found Daniel Gillespie, 71, dead. He was beaten in the head with a blurry object and suffered many stab wounds in the back and later found by a medical expert.
A baseball bat and knife were found in the fireplace. It was impossible for investigators to lift fingerprints or DNA from burned weapons.
On the inner walls of the house, deep black ink wrote “Pedophilus” and provided claims that the house belonged to Shannon Gillespie.
According to the court, she and her children lived at home with her father, but their relationship began to come together in 2018.
They submitted the orders of the duel at each other in a civil court. Shannon Gillespie said her father had sexually harassed her young grandson. Children’s protection investigations in Pinell at the Sheriff’s Office later did not find any evidence to support her accusation.
Conversely, her father accused her daughter of spending more than $ 1,000 in Home Depot, stolen his post office and vandalized.
“She constantly leads my past, called me a pervert and spit on my face,” he wrote in 2018. In July – Although my daughter is small, I’m afraid of her because of her mood. ‘
He asked her to leave, but she refused under one complaint. The judge with his senior Gillepie, with his eviction, on October 30 of that year, and his daughter moved out.
A few days later, Daniel Gillespie was found dead.
The detectives asked her daughter, Beeth Gillepie, whether she knew someone who wants to hurt her father.
Her sister answered.
She then told the investigators about the acceptance she made to her about the previous time when she tried to kill their father.
About two months before his murder, Shannon Gillepie told her sister that she was trying to stifle her father while sleeping with a pillow, but that he was “too strong” by deposition.
Initially, Beth Gillespie did not believe her sister. “She doesn’t always tell the truth,” she testified.
But after her father was killed, she gave those words more weight, she testified.
Beth first learned about the death of her father from her sister’s voicemail, ”the researchers said. In the report, Shannon Gillepie sang the words “Ding Dong! Witch Died” from “Oz Wizard”.
“Finally we are free,” her sister sang.
Detectives began to listen to calls between two sisters, where Shannon Gillepie appeared “paranoid” and “too happy”, discussing his father’s death, Pinell Sheriff’s office details. Jerry Creaser said he was deposited.
“I found it a little strange, but I didn’t know that I had not yet known the story with my family,” he testified.
Investigators said Shannon Gillespie was involved in a son when after the murder.
By announcing, then the 20th anniversary Danny Gillespie recalled how his mother told him to tell him that he had found a grandfather’s body to police.
“She told me to go to discover the body,” he testified. “She said, ‘If you are dealing with your body, don’t call me. Call 911 … just act as you found it.”
“We need you to do it for your family. We need our home back,” she continued, according to her son.
Shannon Gillespie was represented by lawyers working in the Pinell-Paco Public Defense Bureau. The Bureau refused to comment on his case, and the spokesman wrote Times email. In the letter.
During the trial, she occupied a position and denied killing her father.
“If I had $ 10 million, I would still live in this house,” she said to the jurors, according to Ellis, who said home control turned out to be a motive for her murder.
After the death of Daniel Gillespie, home ownership was transferred to their four adult children. Three of them wanted to sell the house, and Shannon Gillepie refused.
Due to the long court battle judge, hiding with three siblings. Homes were sold to an investor for $ 190,000. The fire then torn down the home early in 2020. Morning, just days before the sale.
Shannon Gillespie has never been accused of fire. She was not brought during her murder trial, Ellis said.
During those years from the murder of grandfather and his mother’s arrest, Danny Gillepie said he was in rehabilitation and prison, trying to start addiction on crystal time. He was not good with his mother, who threw him out of the house.
Danny, whose testimony led to his mother’s arrest, said his relationship with her has improved in recent years.
“We write each other in prison. I have no grief against her,” he testified. “Over the years, on my spiritual journey, I just came to the conclusion that love is a better way.”