Tammi's World

Dead. Finally

On the radio this morning was a short blurp about a man that was put to death in Indiana this morning. His name was Alan Matheney. I about drove the car off the road. I thought he was already dead by now - figured it happened while I was living in Florida.

He was a monster. Pure Evil.

Lisa Bianco was a pretty girl. She was good friends with a girl that Mama had in her Sunday School class and she would often come to the house. I remember when she was talking about how she met a man. They were going to get married. That man was Alan Matheney.

Mishawaka is not a big town. And knowing some of the same people we knew that he was "not a nice man". Finally in 1985 she filed for divorce. They had 2 girls. He wouldn't leave her alone. Eventually in 1987 he was arrested and sentenced to 7 years for Battery and Confinement.

While in prison he made no secret of the fact that he wanted Lisa dead. He even tried to hire it done. Despite that - he was allowed an 8 hour pass to go to Indianapolis on a weekend day.

No one warned Lisa.

Instead of heading to Indy - he went back to Mishawaka. He "took" a shotgun from a friend and drove to Lisa's house. He broke in the back door - she ran out the front. He continued to chase her through the neighborhood until he caught her, outside a neighbor's house and beat her to death with that shotgun. He beat her so violently that the shotgun broke into pieces.

Their children were home at the time.

This was in March of 1989. Today is September 28, 2005. 16 and a half years.

The monster is finally dead.

Good riddance.

Rest In Peace Lisa.

**Ironically enough today also marks 11 years ago I walked away from my "monster".

Posted by Tammi at September 28, 2005 05:31 PM