Norfolk lawyer surprised at chance for daughter to join firm
KATHRYN HARRIS, Norfolk Daily News
March 13, 2021
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NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) The adage “like mother, like daughter” rings true in the Norfolk law firm of Copple, Rockey, & Schlecht, P.C.
Earlier this year, Norfolk native and attorney Allison Rockey Mason became a shareholder in the firm, where her mother, Kathleen Rockey, has built a successful career that now spans 35 years.
“I never dreamed we would be in this situation we are in,” Rockey said of practicing law with her daughter. “We’re really fortunate. I don’t think I ever really envisioned having a legal career of over 30 years and a daughter practicing beside me.”
they say he s white, has blondish hair and most likely has green eyes. he now knew two things, that he made too many mistakes and the dna technology had advanced far beyond anything he could ever have imagined. the same time, police asked the surviving roommate, lauren meanza, if she knew anyone who smoked this brand of cigarettes. she had let us know, well, the only smoker i can think of at this point is eric copple. 25-year-old eric copple was a land surveyor and a friend of one of the victims. but before police could question him, copple walked into police headquarters and confessed. i m just getting done with dinner, and i get a phone call at home. someone s here at the police department and they want to confess. copple said he knew adriane insogna.
after the party, copple returned home. he admitted to police that he was drunk. the fight with his ex-fiancee only added to the anger and bitterness he felt towards adriane insogna, so he took revenge. prosecutors believe copple stood outside the house where adriane lived with her two roommates, casing the place and smoking cigarettes. he used a knife to pry open the window and accidently dropped the packet of zip ties on the floor with his dna. leslie s bedroom was the first room at the top of the stairs, and he killed her first. [ screams ] he then went across the hall to adriane s room. she fought back aggressively.
that we had, we had the suspect s dna. copple was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. investigators learned that copple blamed adriane insogna for the breakup of his engagement to lily prudhomme. it appeared that some people and possibly adriane, were telling lily that she could do better and that she shouldn t any longer be involved in this relationship with eric copple, that he wasn t good for her or right for her. on the night of the murders, copple went to a halloween party and ran into his ex-fiancee, lily prudhomme. according to witnesses, the two argued. copple wanted to set a new date for their wedding, but lily wasn t interested. can you just leave me alone for the rest of the night? please.
at some point, he cut his hand and bled profusely as he rushed out of the house. at that point, based on what he s told us, at least, that he took his clothing and burned them in a fire pit that he had in his backyard, went back to sleep, and then the next day went to lily s house to console her, after lily called him to tell him that adriane had been attacked. no one knows why copple spared lauren meanza. some think he didn t know about the downstairs bedroom. i don t know whether or not copple knew that there was a room there. and i don t know whether or not he knew that there was a person in there. i just had a reckoning with myself and really understood that adriane was the target and somebody really wanted my child dead. and then i thought, how stupid was i? of course, adriane was the