A Messy Murder Plot

Murders of Donna Fontaine and Fred Palahniuk

May 1999 / a garage under construction on Donna Fontaine's property outside Kendrick, Idaho

Victims

Accused and outcomes

As told in the episode, on 26 July 2017.

Outcome

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Other people

The timeline

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3. December 1995 Donna and covered name marry in Missouriabout 0:22:43
4. the summer of 1997 The relationship endsabout 0:23:30
5. July 1997 Donna accuses name withheld here of raping herabout 0:23:46
6. November 1997 The divorce is finalisedabout 0:23:36
7. the summer of 1997 a covered name tells Susan Ninachuck he will destroy Donna financially, professionally and with her family, and that he will kill herabout 0:54:36
8. 1997 Donna's son hears covered name say he will kill Donna and any other man he finds her withabout 0:55:39
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10. 1998 a covered name begins work as a long-haul trucker and starts covered name Enterprises (name withheld here Enterprises)about 0:32:46
11. December 1998 a covered name begins an affair with Bernadette Lasseterabout 0:40:56
12. late 1998 covered name asks name withheld here to help kill Donna; the plan is to cut her brake and fuel linesabout 0:36:01
13. October 5th, 1998 a covered name waits outside Donna's office and the courthouse with a gun in her fanny pack but cannot shoot her (Donna's law office)about 0:38:27
14. April 1999 covered name builds a bomb and asks Bernadette Lasseter to take it to the laundromat Donna uses in Caledonia, Missouri (Caledonia laundromat)about 0:39:14
15. April 1999 Lasseter sees Donna there with her daughter Shanna, leaves the bomb and tries to detonate it from her car; nothing happens (Caledonia laundromat)about 0:44:21
16. May 1999 name withheld here tells a covered name he is going to Idaho to do what she could notabout 0:40:28
17. May 28th, 1999 Fred Palahniuk and Donna visit her brother Gary Fontaine at the house Gary and Donna's daughter own together (Gary Fontaine's house)about 0:28:26
18. May 29th, 1999 Donna, Fred and Gary go to the Locust Blossom Festival in Kendrick and meet their neighbours covered name, name withheld here and a covered name (Locust Blossom Festival)about 0:28:46
19. May 29th, 1999 Gary Fontaine leaves the covered name house at dark, sees Donna's pickup in the driveway and smells smoke; he calls the name withheld herees and the fire service (Gary Fontaine's house)about 0:29:46
20. May 29th, 1999 At 7:40 p.m. Deputy Richard Skyles is called to the fire and finds the garage engulfed in flames (Two-story garage)about 0:30:30
21. May 29th, 1999 Two badly burnt bodies are found in the rubble and later identified as Donna and Fred (Two-story garage)about 0:31:32
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