Oxygen\u2019s Snapped<\/a> he found Carmen\u2019s body naked and burnt on the property. He said: \u201cSome scenes make perfect sense. But this scene completely confused me.”<\/p>\nDauphin County Prosecutor Mike Sprow added: \u201cShe said to the 911 operator that she had seen him at 1 o\u2019clock in the morning, heard him yell and chose at that time not to call 911. She indicated that she found him in the morning when she got up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn took the police to her 84-year-old former policeman husband\u2019s naked, burnt remains. There was more burnt debris including shreds of clothing, shoes, and a belt as well as a burnt chair.<\/p>\n
There was a lighter on a table along with a rolled-up paper towel with one burnt end on the ground. \u201cMy question is, why is he naked?\u201d Wilson said. \u201cWe believe, as he was on fire, he more than likely was disrobing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said there was evidence of using fire accelerant and fly eggs on Carmen\u2019s body which had begun to decay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat told me immediately that the story Evelyn told the 911 dispatcher was a complete lie,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cBecause there was no way, after a short amount of time, could flies have landed on the body and left their eggs behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
They noted Eveleyn seemed emotionless. Prosecutor Breese Lantzy said: \u201cYou would expect someone to be hysterically crying and upset and inconsolable. She was just flat and had a monotone reaction to everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Carmen Henderson was known as ‘Grandpa’ in the local community<\/p>\n
Evelyn said she had bipolar disorder and had stopped taking her medication and emergency responders thought she may be in shock.<\/p>\n
She denied killing her husband suggesting that Carmen had set himself ablaze.<\/p>\n
Evelyn told 911 she last heard from Carmen at 1am, then later said she saw him smoking on the back patio around 7 or 8pm the previous evening. She also said she saw Carmen at 11on, then heard him scream her name at 4 or 5am.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined Evelyn had waited at least four hours before calling 911 even though she said it was five to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
Wilson said: \u201cSome people make mistakes, some people do bad things, but she, at that moment, struck me as truly an evil person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carmen\u2019s daughter Lori Henderson said Evelyn isolated Carmen from the rest of his family and didn\u2019t allow visitors. Evelyn herself said their marriage as having \u201cup and down\u201d moments.<\/p>\n
Sprow said the couple argued over money as Evelyn, almost 20 years younger than her husband, had taken over the family limousine company and had driven the firm into debt.<\/p>\n
Sprow said: \u201cWe suspected\u2026that she may have grown tired of having to care for him, since he was elderly and was not able to do everything for himself as time went on. That was something that put a larger burden on her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn was charged with aggravated arson and Carmen\u2019s autopsy results showed he was alive while being burnt with soot found in his throat.<\/p>\n
Sprow said: \u201cIf someone dies from a fire, oftentimes, the thing that kills them is inhaling all of the smoke. His blood results did not bear that out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a fire that caught quickly [and] burned hot, and so there wouldn\u2019t have been a lot of smoke initially. He was actually breathing in more flames than any sort of smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prosecutors thought Carmen may have been set on fire from behind. Wilson said when they presented Carmen with evidence \u201cIt was the longest pause of my life. She goes, \u2018I did it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn told police she lit the back of Carmen\u2019s chair. Prosecutor Breese Lantzy said: \u201cHis clothes became engulfed in flames. He had called out, \u2018Evey, Evey, help me\u2019\u2026as she watched him burn.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Then her story changed again. Sprow said: \u201cBy the time the preliminary trial rolled around, she was denying that she did the crime. She basically recanted her confession.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn\u2019s defense team argued Evelyn made a false confession because she was off her medication and the fire was an accident and started by Carmen.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors noted there was no evidence of a mental health diagnosis for Evelyn.<\/p>\n
The jury convicted Evelyn of second-degree murder, and she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
Dauphin County Sheriff Nicholas Chimienti said: \u201cI asked Evelyn, \u2018How did those handcuffs fit?\u2019 I said, \u2018These were your husband\u2019s handcuffs.\u2019 Her eyes opened up and it hit her.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the sentencing, Carmen\u2019s daughter Lori Henderson directly asked Evelyn: \u201cHow could you treat someone like that, [who] was so kind to you and loved you and gave you everything?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s when she broke. That was the first time she ever looked up, and you could see in her eyes that she did it\u2014and that maybe she regretted it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carmen Henderson was found naked and burned to death in his Pennsylvania backyard in 2022. His wife Evelyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[77476,783,77475,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-172669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-family-feud","tag-murder","tag-murder-trials","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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