His wife lived near the Wenham/Beverly line. I saw TV crews at the house the next day as I drove around.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for...Sharpy Sharpe.
Posted on 01/06/2009 8:38:41 AM PST by raccoonradio
The cross-dressing Harvard-educated millionaire dermatologist who murdered his wife in their North Shore home in 2000 was found dead in his cell at MCI-Norfolk last night after he hanged himself, prison officials tell the Herald.
Dr. Richard Sharpe – who was also charged with hatching a plan to escape from jail shortly after he was charged with murder – was found in his cell at 7:26 p.m. last night, said Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin.
Wiffin said Sharpe, who blasted his wife in the chest with a shotgun, hanged himself with a bedsheet.
According to a prison source, a correction officer had just made the rounds past Sharpe’s cell and had delivered mail to him about an hour earlier. Sharpe’s cellmate was out of the room when Sharpe knotted his bedsheet to the top of his bunk and around his neck, the source said.
Sharpe was taken to Norwood Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:11 p.m. last night. The suicide is now under investigation by DOC, Wiffin said.
Wiffin added the death triggered a full emergency medical response by the guards at the medium-security prison in Norfolk.
The Sharpe story garnered national headlines after it was revealed that the dermatologist was a cross dresser who made a fortune opening laser hair removal centers. He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 2001 and attempted suicide within months of his incarceration.
He was temporarily sent to Bridgewater State Hospital, a prison for the criminally insane, but has been in general population at MCI-Norfolk for years, the source said.
A Norfolk Superior Court jury acquitted him in 2007 on charges he tried to hire a prison hitman to kill Robert Weiner, a former assistant district attorney. Prosecutors alleged Sharpe believed that having Weiner killed would increase his chances of overturning the murder conviction on appeal.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for...Sharpy Sharpe.
Now that's a messed up freak.
>>Prosecutors alleged Sharpe believed that having Weiner killed would increase his chances of overturning the murder conviction on appeal.
What a swell guy!
That Lola was definitely guilty.
He was an evil, evil man.
Looks like a Hussein voter.
Exactly...
Howie Carr list ping. “Is Ted In The House?”
What an opening sentence!
Everyone broke into applause when he was led from the courtroom after his conviction.
Sometimes our system works.
I wonder if he left a suicide note—and, in it, said what dress he’d like to be buried in...
Dick Sharpe? Didn’t he used to be a porno actor?
Court TV summary of the case, incl. pic of him in a dress.
What a drag!
http://www.courttv.com/trials/sharpe/index.html
Nov 2001: Sharpe gets life without parole
” Sharpe believed that having Weiner killed”
Is this what they call cross-dressing in Massachusetts?
No pass.
So was Lola’s friend, “Holly”
Holly came from Miami, F-L-A
Hitchhiked her way across the U-S-A
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
LOL!
I thought Robert “Bob” Weiner was too.
"Not every girl's crazy 'bout a Sharpe-dressed man"
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