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A former successful college student who confessed to helping her dad kill her mom revealed his disturbing behaviors before the crime.
Karrie Neurauter was an engineering student at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York before becoming an accomplice in the murder.
Back in 2017, Neurauter was just 19 and was told by her father, Lloyd Neurauter, 47, that he couldn't afford to pay child support to his ex-wife, her mother, anymore.
At the time, Michele Neurauter, 46, was living with one of the couple's three daughters, who was a minor.
Karrie admitted to investigators that her father threatened to kill himself if Karrie didn't help him murder his former wife, which was the solution to his money problems.
In January 2020, Karrie was released from Albion Correctional Facility on parole.
The then-college student decided to help her father, driving him from his hotel in Rochester to her mom's home in Corning.
Lloyd then entered the house and strangled Michele before asking Karrie to help him stage the scene as a suicide.
She would tearfully admit her role in the crime when questioned by cops, before standing trial.
Her father would plead guilty to first-degree murder, telling the court that he planned the murder and manipulated Karrie into helping.
Lloyd would be sentenced to life in prison without parole, and remains at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.
As for Karrie, Steuben County District Attorney Brooks Baker would help to support a decision that allowed Karrie to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter that same year.
She would be sentenced to one to three years in state prison, the outcome her family was hoping for.
Baker said that while the then-teenager decided to help with the crime, she was brainwashed by her father.
The DA claimed that she may have been suffering from parental alienation syndrome, which is where one parent convinces a child to devalue the other parent.
This results in the child turning against the targeted parent, which in extreme cases can result in crimes such as this one.
Karrie had originally pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but in court, her defense asked for a lesser charge.
Jeanne Lundy, Michele's mother, said that Lloyd manipulated Karrie and that she isn't to blame for what unfolded.
She echoed what she wrote in a letter to the Judge, claiming: "I do not believe my daughter, Michele, would want a long prison sentence for her daughter...
"She would want her to eventually lead a happy life."
Baker further added: “As I said during Lloyd's sentencing, there was some room for mercy in this case, and the place for it was with Karrie. I think the ends of justice were met.
“She was expecting to be sentenced to a much longer term today, and as we went through the process, she was very, very emotional so. Her responses were consistent with what she went through and where she stood in this case,” the DA concluded.
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