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Bada-BANG!

By Peter Mavrik in News on Oct 3, 2007 5:55PM

2007_10_3.strowder.jpgOh, pornography. It holds a strange power over people. It can cause priests to debate porn stars, the incarceration of R&B singers, and even become a code name in the biggest scandal in American history. Or it can cause a woman to kill her boyfriend. Wait, what? Kill her boyfriend?

Jeanette Strowder, 58, had been dating her boyfriend, Jesse Martin, 54, for sixteen years. For the past two years they lived together in Fuller Park. This past Sunday, Strowder found a CD in the house that contained nude images of women. After confronting Martin about it, she got a gun and shot him a number of times, including twice in the head. But that's not all. She smashed the windshields of Martin's motorcycle and car, and then scratched the nickname of one of photographed ladies on his car. The police eventually found her sitting in her yard with the gun. She pointed it at herself, then at the cops, then back at herself before dropping it.

Ahhhhh, Ah! Jealousy!

Image courtesy of the CPD.