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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Tom Peterson / The Bulletin
January 12, 2002
In a videotaped statement made with police on March 28, Lucretia Karle told detectives the fall-back plan in killing Barbara Thomas was to shoot her, but it was her idea to electrocute the 52-year-old woman.
Police found a bathtub full of water and a radio plugged into an orange extension cord....