SHEILA LeBARRE: PEOPLE WHO KNEW HER TELL BIZZARE STORY

Louise and Daniel Harvey sold their farm to chiropractor Wilfred LaBarre several years ago, and remained friends with him until his death. (Michele McDonald/ Globe Staff)

A woman, her men, and a mystery
Inside the strange world of Sheila LaBarre, where charges of murder are only part of the story
By Sally Jacobs, Globe Staff
BOSTON GLOBE/ July 2, 2006

EPPING, N.H. -- The snow had just stopped falling when the young man came stumbling forlornly down the dirt road.

Bruce Allen, a dairy farmer, had been approached by other young men in need of help over the years, but this one was in the worst shape he'd ever seen. His name was Michael and his face was gashed and dripping blood into the snow. His ear was ripped and his skin was a mottled olive.

As he passed Allen's place that winter morning two years ago, the slight man whispered a single hoarse word, the farmer recalled. "Sheila," he said, glancing anxiously back up the road. "Sheila."

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Police got to know her well. In Hampton alone, LaBarre has been involved in more than a dozen complaints over the past 15 years. In 1995, she was granted a restraining order against Ennis, saying that he had attacked her and threatened to ``cut off my fingers and shoot me in the face." She got another order against him in 1997. The year after that, LaBarre and Brackett were both charged with second-degree assault in a lovers' quarrel involving a knife and a pair of scissors. The charges were dismissed.

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