On the night of June 24, 2010, Kevin’s brother, Chris Mengel, and some friends kept watch near the Mengels’ apartment. The author was Morgan Mengel, who was trying to persuade them that Kevin Mengel had left and needed some time alone. Then, relatives began receiving texts from his phone that did not sound like him. Kevin Mengel’s relatives became concerned when he uncharacteristically missed a Father’s Day outing. Morgan Mengel arrived to clean up the scene and Shappell later buried the body behind his alma mater, Marple Newtown High School. When the shovel snapped, he grabbed another, and when it broke, he reached for a third one. When it did not take immediate effect, Shappell struck Kevin Mengel with a shovel. She said she added toxic liquid nicotine to her husband’s favorite lemon Snapple and then texted Shappell to make sure it was being consumed. It wasn’t until last week that Morgan Mengel admitted that she goaded Shappell into killing her husband on June 17, 2010, at MKB Landscaping, the West Goshen Township business the couple ran. “He held the shovel, but Morgan held the strings,” Carmody said, adding that Shappell expressed remorse and accepted responsibility early in the prosecution. He pointed out that Morgan Mengel “picked and groomed” Shappell, preying on his weaknesses. “I should never be forgiven.”Ĭhief Deputy District Attorney Patrick Carmody acknowledged the rarity of a plea agreement with a confessed killer, but he believed the circumstances warranted it. … I’ll never forgive myself,” he said, visibly distraught.
He said he hoped his “heartfelt remorse” would “help in some small way to ease some of the anger. Shappell said he understood that his words meant little and could not undo the pain he caused. Clark, had no supporters in the courtroom, not even his mother, who has sometimes attended proceedings. Shappell, who was represented by David P. Unlike his co-defendant, Shappell asked to face the more than a dozen members of the Mengel family who attended the sentencing as he apologized. “You are just a stupid kid lured by lust into the evil web of a black widow named Morgan,” he said. After fatally bludgeoning his son, Shappell left the body for several days in an unused garage at the landscaping business while he slept in his son’s bed.
said he felt some sympathy for Shappell that quickly dissipated when he focused on Shappell’s disgusting behavior. “Now Kevin’s three children have no father.” “He had such great plans for you,” Barton said to Shappell. Kathleen Barton, the victim’s mother, said her son had been trying to help and support Shappell, mindful that Shappell had lost his father to suicide as a teen. Although the judge imposed the negotiated penalty without comment, he first heard emotional testimony from a half-dozen people, including the victim’s parents, brother and sister.Īll of them expressed outrage that Shappell, an employee of Kevin Mengel’s landscaping company, committed the murder and then moved right into Kevin Mengel Jr.’s apartment. Gavin sentenced Shappell to a 40- to 80-year prison term for his pivotal role in the crime. On Monday, Chester County Senior Judge Thomas G. Mengel, 37, pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of her spouse, Kevin Mengel Jr., the 33-year-old father of their three children, a conviction that carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Last week, Shappell was scheduled to provide those details to a jury, but the trial did not happen. None of it was true, Shappell, 24, later learned from police: The birth announcement was a ruse to get Shappell to take the fall for his former lover, who loved no one but herself, prosecutors said. Mengel’s murderous plot, he was buoyed by the report that she had delivered his twins in prison. And even after Stephen Shappell sat behind bars because he carried out Morgan M. He believed her when she said the only obstacle to their lifelong happiness was her husband. Stephen Shappell will spend 40 to 80 years in prison for the 2010 homicide of his boss, who was also his ex-lover’s husband.
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