Hired Killer of Michigan Library Clerk
Faces Life in Prison
A Florida man was convicted October 17 of murdering an Orion Township (Mich.) Public Library clerk in an alleged four-person conspiracy masterminded by the spurned lover of the clerk’s husband. Under Michigan law, Kevin Joseph Ouellette, 33, faces life in prison without possibility of parole when he is sentenced October 31.
Martha Gail Fulton, 48, was shot to death as she left the library October 4, 1999. Prosecutors said Donna Kay Trapani, also 48, wanted to continue her two-year affair with Fulton’s husband, George. When he sought to end the affair in mid-1999, investigators said, Trapani first tried to lure him back by telling him that she was pregnant with his child and that she was dying of cancer; when that failed, she hired Ouellette.
The killing was filmed by a surveillance camera in the library parking lot. Trapani and two codefendants who allegedly were present will be tried later. All are charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy, the Detroit Free Press reported October 18.
Posted October 23, 2000.
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