State v. Rosencrantz

BURNETT, Judge.

This case presents a tragic story of jealousy, alcohol and violence. Two people are dead. Cathy Alice Gittel and Michael Wayne Lee died from shotgun blasts fired in Cathy’s home. A neighbor found Cathy’s former boyfriend, Keith Rosencrantz, lying in the doorway of the house, bleeding from a gunshot wound to his shoulder. “Help me,” said Rosencrantz. “I have killed them all.”

Following an investigation, the police concluded that Rosencrantz indeed had killed Cathy and Michael, then had turned the shotgun on himself. Unlike his victims, Rosencrantz survived. The county prosecutor…