Lethal Guardian (41 page)

Joe Fremut exposed Mark Despres’s involvement in the murder shortly after detectives arrested him.
(Courtesy of Connecticut State Police Crime Lab)

After spending months on the run, Haiman Clein was arrested by the FBI in Long Beach, California, in early 1996.
(Courtesy of Connecticut State Police Crime Lab)

Dee and Buck Clinton had this house built on their property for Kim and her kids shortly after Buzz was murdered.
(Author’s photo)

Eight weeks after Buzz was murdered, Kim Clinton gave birth to his son, Anson Clinton IV.

After authorities in Ireland tracked her down and extradited her back to the United States, Beth Ann Carpenter posed for a mug shot on June 19, 1999.
(Courtesy of Connecticut State Police Crime Lab)

Beth Ann Carpenter at her parents’ Ledyard home in November 2000, after her bond was reduced from $1 million to $150,000.
(Courtesy of Connecticut State Police Crime Lab)

Chris Despres (20 years old here) was only 15 when he watched in horror as his father murdered Buzz Clinton.

In June 2002, convicted murderer Mark Despres was photographed at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, in Suffield, Connecticut.
(Courtesy of Connecticut Bureau of Prisons)

Haiman Long Clein, at 56, on September 23, 1997, two years before he took a plea bargain for his role in Buzz Clinton’s murder.
(Courtesy of Connecticut Bureau of Prisons)

After she was found guilty of capital felony, murder and conspiracy to commit murder, Beth Ann Carpenter was photographed at the York Correctional Facility for Women in Niantic, Connecticut, on April 24, 2002.
(Courtesy of Connecticut Bureau of Prisons)