[MN] Justice for Barbara Winn Trial
- Filed under: Videos
- Date: Jul 27,2008
As I post this it’s anticipated that the jury will most likely decide today the outcome. No matter what the outcome, MUCH good has been accomplished in this 1981 cold-case coming finally to trial. Others have been inspired to press on to be heard for their loved one, domestic violence awareness has increased, and now people in the Twin Cities know a lot more than they did about the inner workings of what happened back then. Had evidence not been withheld from trial, I’d have no doubts about the ruling - but as it stands - no matter what - Barbara’s worth has been shouted, finally, from the mountaintop.
Description (not video) from Juror Thirteen:
Justice for Barbara “Bobbi” Winn
Aaron “Bubbie” Foster third degree murder trial July 14, 2008
It’s been 27 years since Barbara (Bobbi) Winn was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest at her home in Maplewood. It’s been almost two years since the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office took up the cold case, and it’s been 7 1/2 months since Winn’s boyfriend, Aaron W. Foster, was charged with third-degree murder in connection with her death.
Maplewood Police were called to Winn’s town home shortly after midnight May 8, 1981.
He told the 911 operator that Barbara “took his gun from (him) and shot herself.” An hour later, he told detectives he was downstairs in the kitchen when she shot herself. Now, he was again saying he witnessed the shooting, just coming in the door as Barbara pulled the trigger.
But Winn’s children Randy, Tyrone and Tammi told police that they had heard Winn and Foster arguing, and saw Foster running out of the bedroom moments after hearing a gunshot.
Foster has maintained that Winn’s death was a suicide. He was not charged until November 2007 when a grand jury handed up an indictment
Bill Finney, the former police chief of St. Paul, Minn, was a close friend of Barbara Winn and Aaron Foster. Bill Finney was present at Barbara’s autopsy the day after she died.
There have been many eye-brow raising questions concerning this friendship and the lack of investigation in this case.
For that website’s updates:
http://www.jurorthirteen.com/GeneralCategories/CurrentTrials/BarbaraBobbiWinn/tabid/579/Default.aspx#updates
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