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Beverly Guenther 1957 - 2003

Beverly Jo (Wedepohl) Guenther of St. Louis, Missouri United States was born on December 28, 1957 in St. Louis, and died at age 45 years old on November 22, 2003 in Saint Louis County. Beverly Guenther was buried at Mount Lebanon Cemetery 11101 St Charles Rock Rd, in Saint Ann, St. Louis County.

Beverly Jo (Wedepohl) Guenther
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St. Louis, Missouri United States
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December 28, 1957
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    Beverly Jo Wedepohl was born on December 28, 1957 to parents Bernice and Alfred Wedepohl (1935-1987). She had siblings Aldred Jr and Daniel Wedepohl. She was mother to Christopher, Nicholas, and Corey Franics Guenther (1979-1981). See Beverly Guenther: Obituary. Scott McLaughlin was sentenced to death for the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, Beverly Guenther, in 2003. Judge Steven H. Goldman ordered the capital sentence a month after a jury deadlocked over a life-or-death punishment, McLaughlin was previously convicted of first-degree murder, rape, and armed criminal action. The jury found that the murder was "outrageously and wantonly vile, horrible and inhuman." See an account of the actual trial at With jury divided, judge opts for death sentence. Scott, who in prison became Amber, was executed on the morning of January 4, 2023, 19 years after murdering Beverly. She was the first openly transgender woman executed in the United States. In her final written statement, she said " I am a loving and caring person" and apologized for "what I did". See Missouri picks up pace of executions. Next is transgender inmate from St. Louis County..
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    1957

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    December 28, 1957
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    St. Louis, Missouri United States
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    She was white. Her father was also born in the state of Missouri. Her paternal grandparents were also from St Louis, Missouri, USA.

  • Nationality & Locations

    Beverly was born, raised, and lived her life in Saint Louis County , Missouri.

  • Professional Career

    Beverly worked in Earth City, Missouri.

  • Personal Life & Family

    Beverly was married and had three children.
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    November 22, 2003
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    Murdered - stabbed
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    Saint Louis County, Missouri United States
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    Mount Lebanon Cemetery 11101 St Charles Rock Rd, in Saint Ann, St. Louis County, Missouri 63074, United States
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  • Obituary

    The following obituary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Tuesday, November 26, 2003 on page 19: GUENTHER, BEVERLY JO (nee Wedepohl), at home with the Lord suddenly on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003; loving daughter of Bernice and the late Alfred Wedepohl, Sr.; loving mother of Christopher (Jennifer) Hesselmeyer, Nicholas and the late Corey Guenther; dearest grandmother of Mafriss Shae Guenther; dear sister of Alfred Jr. and Daniel (Katy) Wedepohl; our dear niece, aunt cousin and friend. Funeral Wed., Nov. 26, 10 a.m. at ALEXANDER Funeral Home, 11101 St. charles Rock Rd. at Lindbergh. Interment will follow in Mt. Lebanon Cemetery. Visitation Tues. 3 - 9 p.m.
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09/03/2023
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Missouri picks up pace of executions. Next is transgender inmate from St. Louis County.
The following article, was published on Tuesday, January 3, 2023 by Kim Bell on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website:

POTOSI — Nineteen years after Scott McLaughlin stabbed, strangled and raped an ex-girlfriend in St. Louis County, the state of Missouri is set to put McLaughlin to death. It would be the state’s third execution in nine months, a marked increase from recent years.

Unless the courts or Gov. Mike Parson intervene, McLaughlin will die by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre.

McLaughlin, 49, has been held in recent months in protective custody at the men’s prison in Potosi, living as a transgender woman, Amber. McLaughlin would be the first openly transgender inmate put to death in the U.S., said Robert Dunham, executive director for the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit that tracks the death penalty.

Missouri was one of just six U.S. states to carry out an execution in 2022: Kevin Johnson was executed in November, and Carman Deck in May. The state has not killed three inmates in a 12-month span since 2015. A fourth prisoner, Leonard Taylor, is set to be executed Feb. 7.

No execution dates have been set in Missouri beyond February, but Missouri’s attorney general has asked the Missouri Supreme Court to set dates to execute Michael Tisius, who fatally shot two Randolph County jailers in 2000, and Johnny Johnson, who kidnapped and beat to death a 6-year-old girl in Valley Park in 2002.

“Things are going to pick up in 2023 beyond the two dates we have now,” predicted Elyse Max, co-director of Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. “Because new death sentences are so rare, most of the individuals on Missouri’s row are at the end of appeals.”

Al Wedepohl, whose sister Beverly Guenther was killed by McLaughlin in 2003, anxiously awaits Tuesday’s execution. Wedepohl said he plans to be in the witness box inside the Bonne Terre prison to see McLaughlin die.

“I’ve had this feeling since the day it happened,” Wedepohl said. “It’s not going to bring her back or any of that, but it will help that I will know that (McLaughlin’s) gone.” Guenther, 45, of Moscow Mills, was stabbed with a steak knife as she left her job in Earth City on Nov. 20, 2003. Her body was dumped in St. Louis near the Mississippi River.

Note: Scott McLaughlin, who went by the transgender name of Amber McLaughlin, had filed appeals but they were denied. He/she was executed on the morning of January 4, 2023.
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Photo of Kathy Pinna Kathy Pinna
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01/04/2023
With jury divided, judge opts for death sentence
The following is an excerpt from an article by William C. Lhotka that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Saturday, Nov 4, 2006, on page A007:

In imposing a death sentence, Goldman told the defendant that because of him, "Beverly Guenther lived a tortured life and died a tortured death. You made her worst fears come true." Goldman was referring, in part, to four pages of handwritten notes by Guenther that the jury got to see. In the month before she died, she had documented an assault, instances of McLaughlin driving by her mobile home and repeated harassing phone calls from him.

Whether McLaughlin, 33, of Wright City, killed Guenther, 45, of Moscow Mills, on an unlit parking lot after she got off work on Nov. 20, 2003, is not an issue. But his attorneys, Robert Steele and David Kenyon, argued that McLaughlin lacked the "cool reflection" to support a first-degree murder charge when he killed Guenther and then had sex with the corpse before he hid her body in St. louis, near Bellerive Park.

Prosecutor Rob Livergood insisted the killing was premeditated. Steele and Kenyon asked Goldman for a new trial or sentence of life in prison without parole. They said the jury instructions adopted by a Missouri ccourts committee in March do not match the language in state law. The judge denied the requests.
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