A Maine woman has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for stabbing her longtime friend nearly 500 times.
Kailie A. Brackett was found guilty of murdering 43-year-old Kim Neptune in April 2022 in December 2023, according to Portland Press Herald. On Friday, May 10, Brackett was sentenced to 55 years in prison for her role in the crime, the Associated Press reported.
Brackett, 39, said in a sentencing statement that she was not responsible for Neptune’s death and that the woman’s killer or killers could still be at large, the AP reported.
Authorities found Neptune dead in her Maine home with 484 stab wounds to her body, which was wrapped in a blanket, after the victim’s brother called police on the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation in Washington County.
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A man named Donnell Dana was initially also charged and tried for Neptune’s murder, but in December 2023 his case was declared mistrial due to a deadlocked jury.
Dana later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of “obstructing the apprehension or prosecution for disposing of evidence related to Brackett’s murder charges,” according to the AP.
The Portland Press Herald reported that Brackett and Dana share a child, and that Dana lived with Neptune prior to 2021.
“We’re relieved that justice has been served. And then tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and so on, we’re going to start looking at different healing things together as a community, as one,” Passamaquoddy Council member Adam Newell told CBS affiliate WABI 5 after Brackett’s sentencing .
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