Holli Strickland
Age: 33
Summary: Massachusetts
woman who was accused of severely abusing her 11-year-old adoptive
daughter Haleigh Poutre when she and her husband Jason D. Strickland
pleaded innocent in Westfield District Court to charges of child abuse
after the girl had been beaten with a baseball bat, thrown down stairs
and made to stand in hot water according to court documents (Haleigh
remains in a Boston rehabilitation hospital with a near-fatal brain
injury and became the subject of a legal controversy regarding the
removal of life support for patients in persistent vegetative states),
but who posted bail and was later released less than two weeks after
the trial earlier in September 2005.
Cause of Death: Shot to death in a murder-suicide
Born: May 28, 1972
Died: September 22, 2005
Location: West Springfield, Massachusetts
