DUI Club
After an 11:00 a.m. drunk driving crash that killed a woman in Oregon in 1997, Jean Terese Keating, then 38, was indicted by a grand jury and charged with DUI, reckless driving, reckless endangerment (her two children were in the car with her), and manslaughter. But before she could go to trial, Keating jumped bail and wasn’t heard from again. She was recently found in Manitoba, Canada. Police there got a tip about Keating, who was living under an assumed name. They matched her to Keating because they had her fingerprints: she had a DUI conviction in Canada, too. The tip came because Keating was in a bar, drinking, and bragged that she had “gotten away with killing someone” in the U.S. Canada deported her, and U.S. Marshals were waiting for her when she crossed the border. She has been returned to Oregon to face trial, and is being held on $5 million bail. (RC/Portland Oregonian) ...The first rule of getting away with it is: You do not talk about getting away with it.Original Publication Date: 18 August 2013
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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