Parole denied for Karen Brown

PEWEE VALLEY, Ky. (WTVQ) – A woman convicted in a 1986 murder will not receive parole for at least another 5 years.

Karen Brown was one of three people sentenced in the 1986 murder of 22-year-old Michael Turpin.  Jurors decided that she and Elizabeth Turpin, Michael Turpin’s wife, hired Keith Bouchard to kill Michael for $60,000 in insurance.

For the fourth time, Brown pleaded her case to the state parole board last Tuesday.

During the hearing, Brown said that she had no idea there was a plot to kill Turpin prior to the murder. She told the board that she did not physically harm Turpin, but she was involved in disposing of his body.  No decision was made Tuesday. Instead, the board chose to send it to the full board to make a decision the following week.

The decision from the Department of Corrections released Monday says that Brown’s request has been deferred for five years, meaning she will be up for parole again in 2020.

Brown has spent more than 29 years in prison.