Murder of Senicha Lessman
In 2017, 25-year-old Senicha Marie Lessman of Eagan, Minnesota was murdered in her townhome by her boyfriend, Vern Jason Mouelle, while she was 32 weeks pregnant.[1]
Background[edit]
Senicha Marie Lessman was born Senicha Zdravokova Tzoneva on February 24, 1991 in Isperih, Bulgaria; her birth parents were originally from Turkey. She lived in two orphanages before coming to the United States at age 6 and being adopted by Margi Lessman at age 9. Senicha lettered in track and basketball at Arlington High School in St. Paul before moving to Eagan and graduating from Burnsville High School in 2010. After becoming pregnant, she planned to name her son Logan Andrew. Margi Lessman released a statement describing her daughter as a "loving, kind, smart and beautiful young woman who was very excited to be a mother." [2][3][4]
Murder[edit]
On January 24, 2017, shortly before 3 p.m., Margi Lessman drove to Senicha's home to take her to the doctor, and found her naked on the bedroom floor with her throat cut and a cloth stuffed in her mouth. After Margi called 911, Eagan police and paramedics unsuccessfully tried to revive Senicha. Two days later, prosecutors charged Senicha's boyfriend and the father of her unborn child, Vern Jason Mouelle of Brooklyn Park, with one count of second-degree murder with intent and one count of second-degree murder of an unborn child.[5] Mouelle was 23 at the time.[6]
A neighbor had observed an SUV parked in Lessman's driveway around 1:30, and officers subsequently determined that Mouelle's mother owned a similar vehicle. Officers found the vehicle and Mouelle at his workplace in Mounds View and arrested him. The vehicle contained Lessman's cellphone, bloody women's clothing, a bloody trash can and a Walmart receipt for a pocket knife, which was subsequently found bloodied in Mouelle's dresser drawer at his parents' home. [5] A search of Mouelle's phone revealed he had searched for "How long would it take to die if one of your external jugular vein(s) was slit" and "How much time does it take to knock someone out with a rear naked choke". [1]
Sentencing[edit]
In December 2017, a jury found Mouelle guilty on two counts each of first-degree and second-degree murder. Dakota County judge Erica MacDonald sentenced Mouelle to two consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole.[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Man gets life in murder of girlfriend, fetus". KARE.
- ↑ "Senicha Marie & Logan Andrew Lessman Obituary - Woodbury, Minnesota | Legacy.com".
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Life sentence in deaths of woman, fetus". AP NEWS. December 19, 2017.
- ↑ "Senicha Lessman". Athletic.net.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Eagan woman's throat cut by the father of her unborn child, charges say". January 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Pregnant woman killed in Eagan". www.mprnews.org.
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