BOAT SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER

Boat sentenced to life without parole for first degree murder

Life in prison without the possibility of parole.  That sentence handed down Thursday (7/1) to 56-year-old Michelle Boat of Pella in the May 2020 stabbing death of Tracy Mondabough of Ottumwa.  Mondabough was the girlfriend of Boat’s estranged husband.  During Boat’s first degree murder trial in May, she admitted stalking and confronting Mondabough.  The two got into a confrontation and Boat stabbed Mondabough to death.  Boat will also have to pay $150,000 in restitution.

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