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Man pleads guilty to charge in alcohol-poisoning death
Two of the house’s three occupants who were at home at the time of the party — Joseph Rattles, 20, and Dennis Meinke Jr., 22, now of Pierce City — face 10 misdemeanor charges apiece of allowing an underage person to drink on their premises.
For the Murphys, questions still persist about what happened the night of March 3. Although almost two dozen people attended the party, few have come forward to recount what happened, the family says.
“They more or less quit talking,” Jan Murphy said Monday. “After two years, they just kind of clam up on you.”
Meinke, who was among the prosecution’s witnesses to testify at Himes’ preliminary hearing last year, previously said he only once saw Himes interact with Murphy at the party. Himes kept trying to grab Murphy and would not leave her alone, Meinke said.
Meinke said he was aware that Murphy spent some time in the bathroom, apparently vomiting, with a pair of female friends before she fell asleep on the floor of one of the bedrooms early March 4, 2007. He said he provided Murphy with a pillow and blanket, and checked on her several times before he went to bed about 4:30 a.m.
When a friend tried to rouse Murphy for work sometime after 10:30 a.m., her skin had turned “an ugly purple” and felt “really cold,” Meinke said. Emergency responders who were called to the scene later said Murphy was already dead.
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Brandon Himes’ sentencing hearing is set for 1 p.m. May 22, either in Barry County or Lawrence County court.
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