Woman Charged With Attempted Murder Disappointed By No-Contact Order
INDIANAPOLIS
October 6, 2011
A woman charged in the beating and binding of a 68-year-old woman told the victim she would chop up her body with a chainsaw, according to court documents released on Wednesday.
Alice Howe, 48, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to attempted murder and other felony charges, days after a 68-year-old woman was found bound, gagged and duct-taped from head to toe, police said.
The victim may have died were it not for neighbors and the landlord hearing her banging on walls, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.
According to court documents, Howe told the victim that she would kill her and bury her behind the apartment building in the 2400 block of Bluff Road and that no one would notice because no one cared about her.
"To say you're going to chop somebody's body up and bury them, I think that's an evil, evil, evil person," said neighbor Donna Dye.
Howe was dismayed in court when a judge told her she could not have contact with the victim.
"I love her. She is my roommate," Howe told the judge.
Prosecutors said Howe lived rent-free in the woman's apartment, was the sole beneficiary of her life insurance policy and had the power of attorney over all the victim's financial matters.
"I cannot imagine a love that would beat on such a fragile woman and leave her alone to die over a period of days," said Marion County Deputy Prosecutor Barb Trathen.
Prosecutors told the court that Howe is a danger to the community and requested that her bond be raised to $100,000. The judge increased the bond to $20,000.
Investigators said they want to interview Howe's 75-year-old boyfriend.
Copyright 2011 by TheIndyChannel.com
SOURCE: The Indy Channel News
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