goldenster95 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Fred Lane's Widow Pleads Guilty to Death CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The widow of NFL running back Fred Lane pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter for shooting him to death three years ago as he walked into his home. Deidra Lane could get more than 19 years in prison. Sentencing was set for an unspecified date in September. ``I would like to apologize to the Lane family,'' a weeping Lane, 28, said at the hearing Thursday. ``I'm sorry for the loss and the pain this has caused.'' Authorities said she ambushed her 24-year-old husband at their Charlotte home in July 2000, hoping to cash a $5 million life insurance policy. Lane and her attorney had said she was a battered wife who shot her husband in self-defense. In an unrelated case, Diedra Lane pleaded guilty last October to a 1998 scheme in which she and a bank teller stole more than $41,200 from the bank. She was sentenced to the minimum four months on the federal conspiracy charge. 08/14/03 13:05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishhead Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Have fun in jail Miss crazy lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 F*ck that psyco b*tch. Rot in hell:finger: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 I hope they house her with Rae Carruth. BTW- why did the DA offer a deal on a manslaughter charge? I thought they had her dead to rights on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkyalligator Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 I forgot all about Fred Lane's death but I do remember he was arrested for beating his wife.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB81 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Originally posted by redman I hope they house her with Rae Carruth. And they could team up to find Ron and Nicole's real killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleedblue Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 :finger: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlinginSammy HOF '63 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Jog my memory here. Didn't he spend a short time with the Panthers? And wasn't he a big prospect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 funkyalligator I think the idea is that was a bogus arrest. She was the one, according to 'sources,' that beat her husband. That's why he was leaving her. In this country, all someone has to do is call the cops on you for 'spousal abuse'(if you're a man) it doesn't mean you're guilty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Yeah he was never going to be a star, I don't think, but he did show some nice flashes of talent. Enough to play a few more years as a backup/fill-in starter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redman Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 He was a serviceable back, good enough to make most NFL rosters as a backup, and to start on a few of the lesser teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OURYEAR#56 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Man you have to watch these b*tches. RIP Freddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long n Left Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 I'm here in Charlotte, and remember it all too well. Many of my cop friends assured me that she had killed him in cold blood. One even telling me two days after the killing that one entry wound was into the back of Lane's head. There was some question if a jury of her "peers" would convict on murder, being that the police had been called out to the house several times for domestic disturbances. They both had accused the other of spousal abuse. People I know who have had contact with her say she is and always was bad news, and tried to sway Lane away from marrying her. She was many years his senior. As far as a player, Lane, who came from tiny Lane College burst onto the Panthers roster as a rookie free agent, out performing all other back-ups when Biakabutuka got hurt, and played his way into the starting lineup. He was a solid, if unspectacluar, back, who should have had a solid career as an NFL back-up and special teamer, at worst. Lane's biggest claim to fame in the NFL came during a Panthers defeat of the NY Jets when, after a TD run, he dropped to the turf and did the electric worm. Just another in a too long line of sad stories to come out of Charlotte in the late 90's early 00's involving its sports stars. May Dierdre rot in prison, then in hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phat Hog Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 Originally posted by GGB81 And they could team up to find Ron and Nicole's real killer. They did ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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