Slain Good Samaritan a Strike Against Gender Equality

Photo of Murder Victim Melissa Jenkins

We’ve all probably heard of the Biblical “Good Samaritan”, and if you haven’t, just imagine a person stopping to help someone with no assumption of compensation.  Believe it or not, there are folks in the world willing to go out of their way for others.  Some call us suckers.

Could be they’re right …

Melissa Jenkins, a science teacher at Vermont’s St. Johnsbury Academy, received a call from Allen and Patricia Prue, a couple who had plowed her driveway in the past, claiming car trouble.  Jenkins, who clearly got a bad vibe from the dynamic duo, called a friend to let someone know where she was going … just in case.

From WMUR:

According to court documents, Prue beat and strangled Jenkins when she got out of her car. He said his wife was outside helping him but didn’t know what she was doing, court documents said.

He then put the body in the backseat of their car, and they drove to their home — at some point, Patricia Prue …

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