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Michelle Boat after hearing she s been found guilty of Murder in the First Degree on May 11th, 2021. Photo by Court TV/Pool Reporter
Guilty in the First Degree. The verdict was given by the jury in the murder trial of 56-year-old Michelle Boat of Pella after just over 43 minutes of deliberation in Marion County District Court this afternoon at approximately 3 p.m. The charge carries a life sentence without parole. Boat killed Tracy Mondabaugh of Ottumwa on May 18th, 2020. Stay tuned to 92.1 KRLS for additional coverage.
Michelle Boat after hearing she s been found guilty of Murder in the First Degree on May 11th, 2021. Photo by Court TV/Pool Reporter
Guilty in the First Degree. The verdict was given by a jury in the murder trial of 56-year-old Michelle Boat of Pella after approximately 43 minutes of deliberation in Marion County District Court Tuesday afternoon.
The charge carries a life sentence without parole. Boat killed Tracy Mondabaugh of Ottumwa on May 18th, 2020, the woman who was dating Michelle’s estranged husband Nicholas at the time, 69 days after he left their home on Prairie Street in Pella.
Julie Kuiper was the key eyewitness of the May 18th incident, testifying that she saw a woman–later identified as Michelle Boat, outside of a parked truck with a bloody face that caused her hair to stick up.
Photo of Michelle Boat being cross examined by Marion County Attorney Ed Bull on May 10th, 2021. Photo by Court TV/Pool Reporter.
Michelle Boat, 56, of Pella, was found guilty of First Degree Murder for the May 18th, 2020 killing of Tracy Mondabaugh. On today’s program, listen to reaction from Marion County Attorney Ed Bull, Assistant County Attorney Jared Harmon, Pella PD Lt. Shane Cox, and Eyewitness Julie Kuiper, as well as key moments from the courtroom.
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Photo of Michelle Boat being cross examined by Marion County Attorney Ed Bull on May 10th, 2021. Photo by Court TV/Pool Reporter.
Michelle Boat took the stand Monday in defense of her killing of Tracy Mondabaugh, attempting to convince the jury that the First Degree Murder charge is too severe.
Attorney Jill Eimermann: “In the opening statement I had said that you were not a scorned woman, at some point did you use the word scorned in your interview with police?”
Boat: “I did, I did…because he just threw me away like trash, and like I’d never been his wife, like I didn’t have his two kids, like he never loved me he looked right through me and everything, it was horrible.”