KY- Daughters of victim doubt man is insane, more on victims
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Victim's daughters doubt man is insane
WOMEN SAY HUTCHINSON KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING
By Jim Jordan And Delano Massey
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITERS
Fontaine Hutchinson's daughters hope the world will remember their mother for
her love of cats and orchids, her skill with computers and the pleasure she got
from teaching gymnastics and dance.
After all, Fontaine Hutchinson had been a member of The Great Wallendas
high-wire troupe who had returned home to operate Fontaine's World of Dance in
Lexington and Richmond.
"She was the girl on top when they (the Wallendas) did the seven-man pyramid,"
said Kira Van Houten-Gurnee, 36, of Redondo Beach, Calif.
"She was an excellent water-skier," said Van Houten-Gurnee. "She was very
physically fit."
Van Houten-Gurnee and her sister, Dawn Fitzpatrick, 25, of Lexington, discussed
their mother on the day after Fontaine Hutchinson, 60, was shot to death at her
home on Adams Lane.
Her husband, Patrick Hutchinson, was charged with the murders of both his wife
and Lt. Brenda Cowan, a Lexington firefighter who tried to help.
Neighbors say Patrick Hutchinson had been acting strange before the shooting,
but Fontaine Hutchinson's daughters suspect it was an act.
Dawn Fitzpatrick said she lived at the Adams Lane house until she graduated from
high school and went to college in 1996 -- six years after Fontaine married
Patrick -- and "he was quite normal."
As time went on, he began telling strange stories and "acting foolishly," she
said. "He may have a few screws loose, but he knows what he is doing."
Van Houten-Gurnee said Patrick Hutchinson is a "very deliberate thinker" who
seemed to make up stories to avoid work and other things he didn't want to do.
Fontaine supported him financially, she said. "I can say I was a little
concerned, but not to the point that I thought he was dangerous. He didn't treat
her very well emotionally, but she loved him."
Fontaine Kinkead grew up near Clays Ferry in southern Fayette County and
graduated from Pinkerton High School, a branch of what was then Midway Junior
College.
After a year with The Great Wallendas, she entered the University of Kentucky
where she met John Keene Van Houten-Gurnee. They were married in 1965 and Kira
was born in 1967.
They divorced a decade later and Fontaine married Dawn's father, James
Fitzpatrick. That marriage also failed and so did a brief third marriage before
Fontaine tied the knot with Patrick Hutchinson in 1990.
Overall, Patrick Hutchinson seemed "perfectly normal for the first 10 years they
were together," said Kira Van Houten-Gurnee.
Neighbors said Hutchinson seemed to be a very private man who would wave and
occasionally speak, but never fraternize.
On Friday, he waved to Anna Foy as she pulled onto Adams Lane, and she stopped
to talk.
Clutching and stroking a large wooden staff he said Noah gave him, Hutchinson
shared his plan to fight a war with Noah's animals, Foy said. He said his army
of beasts included a 135-foot cobra, panthers and a hippopotamus
He also told her that except for about 800 humans, there was a conspiracy
involving UFOs, alien clones and the CIA.
"I thought about calling someone, but who do you call and tell someone's talking
crazy?" Foy said.
Another neighbor, Bobby Johnson said he saw no signs of abuse in the Hutchinson
relationship, but told of an encounter with Fontaine two months ago.
"She told us (Patrick) was going to kill her," Johnson said. "She had been
drinking pretty good, but that's what she said."
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