Melvin Ignatow, The Murder Of Brenda Schaefer
Mel Ignatow (March 26, 1938 – September 1, 2008) was a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, who murdered his girlfried, Brenda Sue Schaeffer, in 1988.
The case was controversial because Ignatow was acquitted of the charge, but photographs that proved his guilt were uncovered after the trial. Under the legal principle of double jeopardy, however, Ignatow could not be tried a second time for the murder. He was, however, convicted and jailed for perjury in his grand jury testimony for the case on several occasions.
Ignatow and Schaeffer had been in a relationship for two years at the time of the murder, but Schaeffer, who had complained that Ignatow was abusive, was planning to break off the involvement, an intention that Ignatow was aware of.
Intending to murder Schaeffer, he worked with a former girlfriend, Mary Ann Shore, to lay out plans for the murder, spending several weeks laying out extensive preparations. Shore testified they had "scream tested" her house and dug a grave in the woods behind it.
On September 23, 1988, Schaeffer met Ignatow to return some jewelry of his that she had in her possession. Instead, Ignatow took Schaeffer to Shore's house, where he pulled a gun on Brenda and locked her in the house. Brenda was blindfolded, gagged and bound hand and foot.
Ignatow forced Brenda to strip, photographed her in suggestive positions, raped, sodomized and beat her before killing her with chloroform. Ignatow and Shore buried her behind Shore's house. He took Brenda's jewelery and the exposed film.
Title: Melvin Ignatow, The Murder Of Brenda Schaefer : Crime Documentary
Published on Mar 22, 2016
Uploaded by: Serial Killers Around The World
The case was controversial because Ignatow was acquitted of the charge, but photographs that proved his guilt were uncovered after the trial. Under the legal principle of double jeopardy, however, Ignatow could not be tried a second time for the murder. He was, however, convicted and jailed for perjury in his grand jury testimony for the case on several occasions.
Ignatow and Schaeffer had been in a relationship for two years at the time of the murder, but Schaeffer, who had complained that Ignatow was abusive, was planning to break off the involvement, an intention that Ignatow was aware of.
Intending to murder Schaeffer, he worked with a former girlfriend, Mary Ann Shore, to lay out plans for the murder, spending several weeks laying out extensive preparations. Shore testified they had "scream tested" her house and dug a grave in the woods behind it.
On September 23, 1988, Schaeffer met Ignatow to return some jewelry of his that she had in her possession. Instead, Ignatow took Schaeffer to Shore's house, where he pulled a gun on Brenda and locked her in the house. Brenda was blindfolded, gagged and bound hand and foot.
Ignatow forced Brenda to strip, photographed her in suggestive positions, raped, sodomized and beat her before killing her with chloroform. Ignatow and Shore buried her behind Shore's house. He took Brenda's jewelery and the exposed film.
Title: Melvin Ignatow, The Murder Of Brenda Schaefer : Crime Documentary
Published on Mar 22, 2016
Uploaded by: Serial Killers Around The World
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