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	Hundreds Take Up the Cause of a Killer - New York Times
		Schendel's ankle, reminiscent of the way soldiers tagged the dead -- attacked her in a flashback, a symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder, which was caused by two tours of duty in the war.
		Schendel's house and reacted as a soldier -- brutally -- when she panicked at the sight of him.
		Schendel, whose forehead was split open to the bone, was found with her dress pulled above her waist a mattress over her and a cord around her ankle.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E4D61F3AF935A15757C0A96F958260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=all (1584 words)

	NewStandard: 10/13/98
		Leah Schendel's murder and Manny's 16-year odyssey toward execution is explored in the final part of this three-part series.
		Schendel's bungalow was the second one in on the left.
		Schendel smoked a lot and was claustrophobic; she opened her front door and left just the screen door locked for air.
	www.s-t.com /daily/10-98/10-13-98/a01lo010.htm (4024 words)

	People v. Babbitt (1988) 45 C3d 660
		Schendel not suffered from coronary disease, and had she not experienced physical and psychological stress caused by fright, the struggle, and pain from her wounds, the physical blows she received would not of themselves have proved fatal.
		Schendel's body was found her television set was turned on to channel 40, with the sound off, defense counsel sought to introduce evidence of the movies shown on channel 40 the night of Ms.
		Schendel's apartment, the circumstances of his entry, whether he heard the television, more evidence about defendant's disorder -- it would be "speculative" for him to attach any significance to the program content of channel 40 in evaluating defendant's behavior the night of the Schendel offenses.
	online.ceb.com /calcases/C3/45C3d660.htm (15815 words)

	May 99 Executions
		Babbitt, 49, was sentenced to death for murdering Leah Schendel, 78, while robbing her retirement complex apartment in December 1980.
		Leah Schendel had a large and close family and had spent the evening of her murder with her siblings.
		Later that night, Leah's apartment was ransacked; the intruder had cut through her screen door and viciously attacked her.
	www.prodeathpenalty.com /Pending/99/may_execlist.html (4880 words)

	Capital Punishment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Schendel's semi-nude body was found lying on the floor of her bedroom, partially covered by a bloodstained mattress.
		Schendel's cause of death was determined to be heart failure caused by stress related to the robbery and beating.
		Schendel's property were found in his possession, linking him to her murder.
	www.cdcr.ca.gov /ReportsResearch/manuelBabbitt.html (264 words)

	Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		“I decided that this legislation was necessary when I heard of the unbearable pain suffered by the family of Leah Schendel, a 78-year old woman who was attacked in her Sacramento, California home just before Christmas in 1980.
		Schendel’s family was renewed when they learned that the man who had so viciously brutalized their loved one was being honored by the U.S. Marine Corps, in San Quentin.
		Schendel’s family, this medal ceremony was a slap in the face.
	www.senate.gov /~feinstein/releases98/medals.html (396 words)

	Bill Babbitt may be a third victim today: 5/4/99
		If you are a loved one of the late Leah Schendel, a slight 78-year-old grandmother whose battered partially clad body was found lying on the bedroom beneath a blood-stained mattress, the death of Manny Babbitt is justice of the highest order.
		Manny's slow march into madness from Wareham to death row has resulted in two people dead, a host of disturbing questions regarding his initial trial, and the validity regarding the very nature of post-traumatic stress disorder and combat-induced "dissociative state" alleged when the slaying took place.
		Leah Schendel's supporters will dismiss that as so much psycho-babble.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/05-99/05-04-99/b01lo038.htm (687 words)

	California executes mentally ill Vietnam veteran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The veteran was convicted of the 1980 killing of Leah Schendel, a 78-year-old Sacramento woman, during a break-in.
		Soon after moving to Sacramento, California to live with his brother Bill, Manny was involved in the assault on Leah Schendel.
		The lawyers who argued for Babbitt's appeal--Jessica McGuire, a public defender, and Charles Patterson, a private lawyer who was also a Marine in Khe Sanh--said Babbitt saw the lights and "disassociated." The sight of aircraft would always be followed by enemy fire in Vietnam and soldiers would duck for cover.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/may1999/exec-m05.shtml (1447 words)

	Fight the Death Penalty in USA - Executions in 1997-98
		Babbitt was sentenced to death for the 1980 murder and attempted rape of 78-year-old Leah Schendel--an attack he said he did not remember because it came during a post-traumatic stress flashback.
		Don Schendel, the dead woman's son, decried what he called the defense's "raising the race card" at this late date, more than 18 years after Schendel was killed in her Sacramento home.
		Babbitt sliced through the screen door of Leah Schendel's small apartment with a knife and beat her so brutally that he shattered her dentures.
	www.fdp.dk /uk/exec/exe-9902.htm (15787 words)

	Vietnam Vet Babbitt Executed / Ex-Marine dies at San Quentin for 1980 murder of Sacramento grandmother
		The Sacramento woman, a mother of two and grandmother of seven, died of a heart attack after she was robbed and severely beaten in her home.
		Babbitt's appellate lawyers and mental health experts argued that he should not be executed because he was having a Vietnam flashback when Schendel was attacked.
		But prosecutors and Schendel family members say that Babbitt knew what he was doing when he broke into Schendel's apartment.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/05/04/MN104400.DTL (1465 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This fall, the performers are taking their first state-wide tour.
		In addition to Nelson and Anich, the performers are: Jack Gunderson, Sally Kessler, Scott Kuester, Cheryl Leah, Tom Mitchell and Ed Willett.
		Schendel said 800 tickets have already been sold.
	www.rivertowns.net /public/pchrival/week38/frontpage/np/LOCAB01.HTM (536 words)

	Unjust executions - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A decorated Vietnam War veteran (he was awarded his Purple Heart on San Quentin's death row only weeks before his death), Babbitt was executed in May 1999 for the death of Leah Schendel, a 78-year-old woman who died of a heart attack in 1980 during Babbitt's attempt to burglarize her home.
		Bill Babbitt watched, along with several of Schendel's relatives, as his brother was killed by injection.
		My brother had told us he was not afraid to die, and that we should not show any malice toward the victim's family.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/05/06/sentencing_errors/print.html?pn=3 (841 words)

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		His defense: a combat-induced stress disorder that probably caused a flashback, or ``dissociative state.'' Babbitt was convicted of the felony murder of Leah Schendel, who died of a heart attack after he struck her during a burglary and attempted rape.
		Less than 24 hours after Schendel died, Mavis Wilson was outside her apartment in Sacramento when she was attacked by a man who knocked her unconscious and began to take her slacks off.
		Babbitt said he recalls smoking marijuana and talking with an Asian man about Vietnam, then crossing a busy street and thinking the lights of the cars were landing aircraft and incoming enemy fire.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1998-March/001487.html (1322 words)

	Manny
		With Manny's well documented background of mental illness, the judicial system was obviously aware that he had reached the dissociative point long before the tragic night of December 23, 1980, when 78 year old Leah Schendel died of a heart attack after Manny burst into her home and struck her with his hand.
		Technically, even though it is evident that Manny was unarmed and didn't intend to kill Leah, California law permits a district attorney to use his/her discretion in determining the type of charges to file when death occurs in the commission of a crime.
		In retrospect, we would do well to consider the sobering fact that Leah Schendel and Marine Lance Corporal Manny Babbitt are classic examples of how innocent people can become casualties of war and social neglect.
	www.compusmart.ab.ca /deadmantalking/manny.htm (1514 words)

	Prison Talk - the "closure" myth -- how death row can prolong the pain of victims' families
		Babbitt, a decorated Vietnam vet and former mental patient, broke into the home of 78-year-old Leah Schendel, beat her and tried to rape her.
		At the hearing, one side of the room was dominated by the Schendel family, the other by the Babbitts.
		He believes the Schendel family was the more ill-served by the process.
	www.prisontalk.com /forums/printthread.php?t=8894 (2564 words)

	California Executes Vietnam Vet - CBS News
		Babbitt was sentenced to death for killing Leah Schendel in 1980.
		He was convicted of breaking into her apartment and hammering her with punches that broke her dentures and split the skin on her forehead to the bone.
		Schendel's family, which demanded, and got, legislation banning another such presentation.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/05/04/national/main45622.shtml (322 words)

	MIAC Tournament 9th-Place Qualifier Recap
		Kelsey Schendel teamed with Leigh Bonemeyer to pick up the lone Cobber victory in the MIAC Tournament on Friday.
		That would be the lone bright spot in the match for Concordia as they would drop all three of the singles matches that were played.
		The match was called after the first round of singles play due to the insurmountable lead that Macalester had run up.
	www.cord.edu /dept/sports/spring/wtn/recapmatch17.php (224 words)

	A Brother's Anguish
		It hit me: Leah Schendel had been playing the nickel slots in Reno just days before the murder.
		I woke her and said, "Let's get down and pray." I was kneeling at the foot of the bed.
		Was there another Leah out there who might become a victim of my brother and his demons?
	www.willsworld.com /~mvfhr/Babbitt.htm (819 words)

	Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It was the home of Leah Schendel, a 78-year-old grandmother.
		He had heard about the senseless murder of Leah Schendel, and the strange treatment of her body.
		He was very sorry for killing Leah Schendel but at peace.
	www.newhumanist.org.uk /printarticle.php?id=3_0_5_0_C (1725 words)

	Veteran to Get Purple Heart On Death Row / Lawyers fought to get medal, ceremony for him
		Babbitt was convicted of the felony murder of Leah Schendel, who died of a heart attack after he struck her during a burglary and attempted rape.
		Less than 24 hours after Schendel died, Mavis Wilson was outside her apartment in Sacramento when she was attacked by a man who knocked her unconscious and began to take her slacks off.
		Babbitt was charged with the first-degree murder, robbery and attempted rape of Schendel as well as the robbery and attempted rape of Wilson.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/03/20/MN30030.DTL (1574 words)

	Pacific News Service > News > With 'Undecideds' Like Me, This Recall Is a Fool's Game
		For me, to vote to ratify such a governorship would be to ratify the execution, for example, of Manny Babbitt on 4 May 1999.
		Manny Babbitt had been arrested for the murder of Leah Schendel -- and I realize as a victim of crime around the same period that it might have been me -- after his brother Bill Babbitt courageously cooperated with the police in solving the murder by implicating Manny and helping in the arrest.
		Schendel, your only choices are either to refuse cooperation with the police, and very possibly facilitate more murders; or to cooperate, and very possibly become a collaborator in the state-sponsored murder of your own flesh and blood.
	news.pacificnews.org /news/view_article.html?article_id=2b61e3702b25995bde24d803365bb736 (1392 words)

	My Brother's Guilt Became My Own
		It hit me: Leah Schendel had been playing the nickel slots in Reno just days before the murder.
		I woke her and said, "Let's get down and pray." I was kneeling at the foot of the bed.
		Was there another Leah out there who might become a victim of my brother and his demons?
	www.deathpenaltyinfo.org /article.php?scid=17&did=394 (819 words)

	j. - Anti-death penalty fervor rising, S.F. rabbi says after execution
		Babbitt was convicted of the 1980 beating murder of Leah Schendel, a 78-year-old Sacramento grandmother.
		In fact, Schendel's granddaughter, Laura Thompson, had pressed for Babbitt's execution.
		However, press accounts claimed she turned away, shaken, as Babbitt was administered the lethal injection.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/11197/format/html/displaystory.html (1054 words)

	Scope Magazine \| Fall 2003 \| Letters
		[Regarding the case of guest speaker Bill Babbitt’s mentally ill brother,] “Manny” (as his supporters affectionately called him) was executed for murdering Leah Schendel, a seventy-eight-year-old grandmother who died of a heart attack after being beaten bloody in her Sacramento apartment during a 1980 robbery and attempted rape.
		After leaving Schendel to die and covering her with a mattress, Manny robbed, attacked, and attempted to rape another Sacramento woman in her driveway.
		His rap sheet included the burglary of twenty-seven summer cottages in 1972, armed robbery of two gas stations in 1973, the regular beating of his common-law wife, and let’s not forget the charge of assaulting and sodomizing his family’s thirteen-year-old babysitter in 1979.
	www.skidmore.edu /scope/fall2003/letters (576 words)

	freedomforum.org: California governor reviews clemency report, but contents remain secret
		Babbitt was convicted of murdering 78-year-old Leah Schendel in 1980.
		Defense lawyers say Babbitt, a Vietnam War veteran and Purple Heart recipient, deserves clemency because he has post-traumatic stress disorder and was mentally ill before the war.
		Laura Thompson, Schendel's granddaughter, says she believes the report should stay private so the governor can "reflect upon it without public outcry."
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=7303 (649 words)

	ABOLISH Archives, March, 1999: Manny Babbitt: sample letter to Gov & Prison Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		return Leah Schendel to her family; but instead
		evidence of the night of the death of Leah Schendel.
		Leah Schendel did not die directly from Mr Babbitt’s blows, but instead her frail seventy eight
	venus.soci.niu.edu /~archives/ABOLISH/mar99/1240.html (534 words)

	ABOLISH Archives, March, 1999: death penalty news---CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, TEXAS, NEVADA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		She died of a heart attack as a result of the attack.
		Scully stood at a lectern with 5 Schendel family members seated at her
		To Scully's left was a screen upon which a slide of a Schendel family
	venus.soci.niu.edu /~archives/ABOLISH/mar99/1164.html (1343 words)

	Prison Ministries - Aba Gayle at San Quentin
		The symptoms intensify when PTSD victims are exposed to acute levels of chronic stress and/or conditions similar to combat experiences; in some cases symptoms intensify until PTSD veteran’s reach a "dissociative state" in which they relive combat.
		But when "in-country," Manny and his Marine buddies would enter a Vietnamese village to search through thatched huts for anything useful to the intelligence service; they routinely ransacked the personal affects of peasants for souvenirs.
		"Technically, even though it is evident that Manny was unarmed and didn’t intend to kill Leah, because she suffered a fatal heart attack, California law gives the district attorney the power to use his discretion in the type of charges to file when death occurs in the commission of a burglar.
	www.catherineblountfdn.org /prisonministries.html (3252 words)

	DB990430
		Gray Davis, weighing whether to allow the execution of convicted killer Manny Babbitt, has been advised by the Board of Prison Terms to reject Babbitt's petition for clemency.
		Babbitt, 49, is scheduled to die Tuesday for the 1980 murder of Leah Schendel, 78, of Sacramento.
		Californians pay less attention to what is going on in government than they did a decade ago and are more cynical about the motivations of politicians, according to a new Field Poll released yesterday.
	www.sen.ca.gov /ftp/sen/GOP_CAUCUS/DAILY_BRIEFINGS/DB990430.HTM (501 words)

	Justifiable Homicide
		After a murder, the grieving family wants to know the truth about what happened.
		Once Bill suspected the truth of Leah Schendel's murder, he couldn't keep it from her family, or from his own family, or from the police.
		In a sense, the state of California couldn't keep its truth hidden either: it admitted that Manny's death was a murder too.
	www.afsc.org /pwork/0104/010420.htm (1112 words)

	Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, May 04, 2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Today is the 8 year anniversary of the execution of Manny Babbitt, Vietnam Veteran who received a Purple Heart after being injured at the battle of Khe Sanh.
		Fifteen years after the war, Babbitt broke into the Sacramento home of Leah Schendel, a 78 year old woman he did not know.
		He stripped the clothes off the lower half of her body, took a hot iron to her vagina, beat her to death and robbed her house.
	www.fsrn.org /news/20070504_news.html (1270 words)

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