How Melvin Ignatow Got Away With Murder — Before Eventually Being Killed By Karma Mel Ignatow killed his girlfriend Brenda Sue Schaefer in 1988 and managed to get away with it. Two decades later, however, he met a grisly fate eerily reminiscent of that murder. Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions and/or images of violent, disturbing, or otherwise potentially distressing events. On Sept. 25, 1988, weeks after she told friends and family members that she planned to break up with her abusive boyfriend, Brenda Sue Schaefer was reported missing. “I don’t think our mother believed it, but we knew she was dead right away,” Shaefer’s brother Tom Schaefer told CBS News. He was right. On Sept. 24, Schaefer’s 50-year-old boyfriend Mel Ignatow had brutally murdered her in Louisville, Kentucky after learning she planned to break up with him — a fact Ignatow later admitted himself. But that confession didn’t come until after he’d already been acquitted of her murder and made a free ma...
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