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‘IT’S SAD ENOUGH
MY ELDEST
NIECE WOULD DO
SOMETHING LIKE
THIS . . . BUT HELEN
WAS INNOCENT.
SHE DIDN’T
DESERVE TO TAKE
THE BLAME’
— T A M A R A N O R T H ,
P A M E L A H A R G A N ’ S
S I S T E R
A Deadly Plot?
Police (above, at the
crime scene) say Megan
Hargan (in a mug shot, left,
and being questioned
by authorities, below) tried
to transfer money from
Pamela’s bank account to
purchase herself a home on
the day of the murders.
scene had been “staged” and that attempted an online transfer of mon- even know what to say,” she reflects.
Megan, 37, had been arrested on two ey from Pamela’s bank account, and “There’s obviously something very,
counts of first-degree murder. (Megan, Pamela notified the bank of the fraud- very wrong.” And while she wants jus-
TOM ROUSSEY/WJLA-TV; FAIRFAX COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT
who has yet to enter a plea and is ulent transaction. The police affidavit tice, she also wants Helen’s reputation
expected in court in June, could face chillingly details what happened inside restored. While police determined early
life in prison if convicted when the case the Hargan home the next day: At about on that the crime scene was staged, they
goes to trial.) Said Fairfax County Police 2 p.m. Helen calls her boyfriend, Car- let Helen remain cast as a murderer for
Major Ed O’Carroll: “This is . . . domestic los Gutierrez, in Texas “hysterical and more than a year while they quietly pur-
violence at its worst.” sobbing. She stated that . . . Megan had sued Megan as a suspect. “On Helen’s
Trouble had been brewing between come into her room; told her she had Facebook, none of her friends posted
the sisters for years, according to shot their mother. Helen told Gutier- how sorry they were that she was gone,”
North, who says Pamela was paying rez ‘Megan was downstairs transfer- says North. “I guess they assumed
for a house Helen was building but ring money.’ ” After the line went dead, [murder-suicide] was true. Helen didn’t
had turned down Megan’s request for Gutierrez repeatedly redialed Helen’s deserve that.” •
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