Vermont prosecutors are forging ahead with a murder case against a woman accused of killing her Alzheimer’s disease-afflicted mother and then burning the body, even though the remains were never found and there were no eyewitnesses to the killing.
At issue: Whether there’s enough circumstantial evidence to convict Jeanne Sevigny, who reported 78-year-old Mary Wilcox as a missing person in 2006 but was charged last year in her death after an informant said Wilcox had been killed.
Prosecutors say Sevigny, 60, of Westford killed her mother because she’d become a burden to the family.
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