Englewood Woman Sentenced For Killing Man With Baseball Bat
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) - A judge on Friday sentenced a woman to 38 years in the Department of Corrections for killing a man with a baseball bat.
Forsythia Eliese Owen beat Denzle Rainey to death outside her Englewood home in the alley of 3654 S. Sherman Street at 1:07 a.m. on Sept. 22, 2013.
She beat him numerous times with a Louisville Slugger baseball bat and Rainey suffered multiple blunt force injuries and lacerations to the head, a skull fracture, broken left arm, six broken ribs, a laceration to the liver and a left testicle hemorrhage. He died a few hours later just before 5 a.m.
Owen told police she thought Rainey sexually assaulted her child but there wasn't any evidence to support that claim.
"Despite Colorado having one of the toughest-in-the-nation laws to overcome a plea of insanity, an Arapahoe County jury acknowledged that Owen's claimed mental illness is no excuse for Owen's intimate and personal act of repeatedly bludgeoning a poor and defenseless man and leaving him to die alone in an alleyway. She knew what she was doing when she murdered Mr. Rainey, and she will know what she is doing for the next 38 years," said District Attorney George Brauchler.
