Kalispell woman on trial for murder
Heather Henson pleads not guilty of deliberate homicide in death of Larry Kingsley
by Duane Williams, KLCB 1230 AM Libby News Radio
December 12, 2008
A Kalispell woman accused of murdering 67-year-old Larry Kingsley appeared in 19th District Court in Libby this week.
19-year-old Heather Henson pled not guilty to charges of deliberate homicide, shooting Kingsley over 15 times at a campground at Sylvan Lake, tampering with evidence, and theft of a pickup. Henson and her boyfriend, Stephen Thomas, went camping with Kingsley in mid-July.
Henson told authorities Kingsley gave her money to help fund her writing career. When she lost the money, Kingsley told her she would have to repay it with sex.
Henson and Thomas agreed to go to Kingsley's campsite where Henson admits having sex with Kingsley and claims Kingsley became jealous of Thomas. She claims she and Thomas shot Kingsley. Henson testified she feared for her life.
Thomas, 17, pled not guilty. He will be tried as an adult scheduled for March.
In rather bizarre testimony Tuesday, Thomas claimed Kingsley tried to hire Thomas to assassinate then Libby mayor Tony Berget, and blow up gasoline filling station storage tanks to quote, "level Libby."
The trial is expected to continue into the first part of next week.
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Story by Duane Williams, KLCB 1230 AM Libby News Radio, www.todaysbestcountryonline.
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