THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 12, 1994 TAG: 9408120786
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B04 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: LEWISBURG, W.VA. LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
A former Virginia beauty queen accused of plotting to kill a Lewisburg family faces trial Oct. 11.
Tracy Lippard, 23, of Newport News, sat quietly during a pretrial conference Wednesday in Greenbrier County Circuit Court.
Lippard was indicted in April on three counts of attempted murder, one count of malicious wounding, three counts of carrying a concealed weapon, two counts of bringing stolen property into the state, and one count each of improper use of registration plates and brandishing a weapon.
The charges stem from a Feb. 27 alleged attack on Rodney Weikle. Police said Lippard planned to kill Weikle, his wife, Carlynn, and their daughter, Melissa.
Authorities said Lippard and Melissa Weikle both dated Todd Scott of High Point, N.C., and Lippard was jealous because Weikle became pregnant by Scott.
After crowning her successor as Miss Williamsburg on Feb. 26, Lippard drove to the Weikle home.
She remains free on $42,000 bond. If convicted on all counts, she could be sentenced to about 30 years in prison.
KEYWORDS: ASSAULT
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