Housekeeper Anita Fox Stabbed To Death, Person Of Interest Still At Large

[penelopejo]

Person of Interest

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/26657252/colleyville-housekeeper-stabbed-multiple-times-to-death

A housekeeper found dead in a Colleyville home last week was repeatedly stabbed, according to the medical examiner.

Anita Fox, 72, was found last Tuesday in the entryway of a residence in the 500 block of Frontier Court, the first homicide in more than 20 years in Colleyville.

Fox was the housekeeper at the home where she was found. The homeowners were not home at the time of the murder.

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Police released a sketch last week of a white male, about 40, 5-foot-8 and heavyset and with short blond or gray hair.

More at the link.

 

[Satanica]

From your link.

Police are also searching for a vehicle of interest in the case, a mid-2000s two-door pickup believed to be cream or champagne colored with metal pipe bed racks.

Anita Fox

 

[mybum62]

How sad...this sounds like an area people deem to be pretty safe. RIP Anita.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

An Irish Traveller who pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder a 69-year-old housekeeper in Colleyville was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison.

Bernard “Little Joe” Gorman, 28, had been accused, along with his father, of stalking and killing Anita Fox on Sept. 23, 2014, in hopes of collecting on a $1 million insurance policy that authorities suspect she didn’t know existed.

Investigators said the pair killed Fox hoping to collect proceeds from a $1 million life insurance policy that Fox didn’t know existed. There were four other policies totaling $4 million on Fox that listed her son-in-law, Mark Buckland, and/or her daughter, Virginia Buckland, as beneficiaries.

An FBI investigation revealed that Charles Mercier, an insurance agent whose family writes life insurance policies almost exclusively for Travellers, had written five policies on Anita Fox in 2007 and 2008.

“Travellers have been known to be involved in life insurance scams in the past,” FBI Special Agent Ronald Grosse wrote in a probable cause affidavit. “These scams typically involve lying on the policy applications about income, net worth, health, identifying information, and whether other policies have been issued.”

The elder Gorman died of natural causes in January 2015, before he could be arrested in the case.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article135231299.html

 

[Sevens My Charm]

The case against Mercier and the Bucklands stemmed from an August 2016 racketeering case against 22 members of the Murphy Village Irish Travelers that accused them of conspiracy to fraudulently obtain life insurance and government benefits.

Accused in Irish Traveler insurance fraud case to plead

A local insurance agent and a Texas couple accused of an insurance fraud plot that led to murder intend to plead guilty, according to court records. Attorneys for Charles Mercier and Virginia and M…

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.. federal grand jury returned an indictment of 45 counts against 22 people, most of them Travelers living in Murphy Village. The indictment alleges the group committed different kinds of fraud and money laundering schemes, among other charges.

Who are the Travels Murphry Villagers at link..

 

[Sugar Cookie]

They said she was an English Traveler I wonder if that was to disparage her character.