Protest Against Parole
UPDATE!!!
We received notification on 20 July that Micheal Croote's petition for parole has been denied and he will not be eligible again until 2008.

Thanks to you we were able to keep another bad guy behind bars.





Please send letters, emails, or faxes protesting the parole of Michael Croote.


Background
Wendy Croote had planned to leave her husband, Michael, in April of 1990, because he was abusive to her, and had been almost from the beginning of their marriage. But he promised her again that "things would get better" and "he would change". She stayed. He went and bought a gun then, convincing her that "it was for her own protection".

She called her parents on the 21st of June, 1990, to let them know that she thought everything would work out between her and Michael. The last thing she said to her mother was, "I love you, Mom."

On June 24, 1990, three days following that phone call, Michael shot Wendy in the back of the head twice, while she lay sleeping.

This was a deliberate, cold blooded MURDER. He had to go to the bedroom for the gun, then to the kitchen, at the opposite end of their trailer, for the bullets, load the gun, go in the living room where she was sleeping, step behind her and shoot her. When she did not die instantly from the first shot, he pumped another bullet into her brain.

After committing this horrendous crime, Michael got in the car and drove around for FOUR HOURS, leaving their two year old son alone with his dead mother.

Michael turned himself in then. He calmly walked into the local police dept - laid the murder weapon upon the counter and stated, "I JUST shot my wife." The Police dept and the ambulance sped to the scene of the crime, tried to do C.P.R. on Wendy, not realizing that four hours had elapsed, that is when they found the little two year old there alone with his dead mother.

Michael was charged with first degree murder. After an autopsy was done, he was also charged with first degree feticide. Wendy's parents were told there would be no plea-bargaining. A trial date was scheduled for November, but it never went that far. He was allowed to plea-bargain the charge down to voluntary manslaughter for the murder of Wendy Ann. For the feticide charge, there was no plea-bargaining allowed.

Croote sentenced to twenty years for killing Wendy Ann, and sentenced to life for killing his unborn child. Wendy's family was sentenced to a life time of grief and sorrow. Justice demands that Croote be made to serve he complete sentence.