Krista's past.. a news story "Stegall Murder"
Mekare23
"National tabloids revive story of Stegal murder"
Opelousas waitress Krista Stegal soon will discover the two-edged sword
of celebrity.
The national tabloid press has picked up on the 23-year-old murder of
her father by her brother's hand.
Stegal, 29, is a current cast member of the Big Brother television show.
Big Brother is the CBS product that places people in the fish bowl of a
Hollywood house to videotape every word, move and emotion. Contestants try
to outlast one another as they vote members out of the house. The last guest
standing wins $500,000. House guests are completely cut off from the outside
world during the contest.
The very public present life of Krista Stegal soon will engulf her very
private past.
On the Sunday morning of July 3, 1977, according to newspaper and police
reports, Fred Stegal, 43, was found slumped over in his pick-up truck on
Gradnigo Island Road northwest of Opelousas. He had suffered a fatal shotgun
blast to the left side of the head. Stegal was found about three-quarters
of a mile from his house at 642 Wayne Street.
At the time, St. Landry Parish Sheriff Chief Deputy L.B. Carriere told
the Daily World that Stegal "was a real nice guy that did his own thing,
according to the people we talked to. He wasn't a racketeer or anything
like that."
Carriere and detectives Robert Dailey and Larry Zerangue investigated
and determined that 16-year-old Fred Stegal Jr. shot his father after a
fight.
District attorney Morgan Goudeau III agreed with the police and placed
the case before 27th Judicial District Court Judge H. Garland Pavy.
Young Stegal was arrested two days after the murder.
When Stegal Jr. was confronted by deputies in 1977, he gave a full
confession.
Because juvenile records are sealed, information about his conviction
and the number of years he was in prison is not available. He was charged
with first degree murder.
At the time, the Stegal family consisted of the widow Margie Fontenot
Stegal and her four children, Fred Jr., Steven Kent, who lived in Houma
at the time, and toddler girls Kelley and Krista.
The elder Stegal, who was a member of the Elks Lodge, a veteran of the
Korean War and was employed as a well operator for Schlumberger Company,
also left a brother Samuel Stegal of Raceland, and two sisters, Mrs. Doris
Daigle of Sulphur and Mrs. Dorothy Simpson of Lafayette. Burial service
was at the Bayou Rouge Pentecostal Church, with burial in Palmetto cemetery.
ŠDaily World 2001
SilverTabby64
>The national tabloid press has picked up on the 23-year-old murder of
>her father by her brother's hand.
Snip:
Doesn't this sound like an old movie of the week?
The father was probably abusive and the son killed him to protect the family.
In the 70's any kind of family abuse wasn't talked about.
Billie
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Captain America
"SilverTabby64" <silver...@aol.comnono> wrote in message
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> Doesn't this sound like an old movie of the week?
> The father was probably abusive and the son killed him to protect the
family.
> In the 70's any kind of family abuse wasn't talked about.
Daddy probably molested her. Seriously. Putting flame retardant suit on now.
Mike D
>Opelousas waitress Krista Stegal soon will discover the two-edged sword
>of celebrity.
That is really sad.
TC3
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"Billie " <pusss...@aol.com> wrote in message
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charlies-angel-007
in a "tabloid"....
Mekare23 <akas...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Travln' John
<angeldrinki...@home.com> wrote:
>I just wanna say I posted this already and nobody believed me becuz it was
>in a "tabloid"....
LOL
Captain America
"charlies-angel-007" <angeldrinki...@home.com> wrote in message
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> I just wanna say I posted this already and nobody believed me becuz it was
> in a "tabloid"....
That's ok, we know elvis is alive.
luna...@home.nospam.com
<angeldrinki...@home.com> wrote:
>I just wanna say I posted this already and nobody believed me becuz it was
>in a "tabloid"....
I believed you!
Rick in LA
charlies-angel-007 <angeldrinki...@home.com> wrote in message
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> in a "tabloid"....
I believed the *story* I just doubt *your* existance.
