BY MELINDA J. OVERSTREET / GLASGOW NEWS 1
Two Glasgow women have been formally charged by a grand jury with murder.
Cheryl L. Bennett
Photo courtesy Barren County Detention Center
Cheryl Leighanne Bennett, 46, and Donna Cheryl Logsdon, 71, were charged in relation to the death of Michael Logsdon, the father and husband, respectively, of the defendants on or about July 9 last year. According to the indictments that were issued Friday and released Tuesday morning, the grand jury charges that each of them “acting alone or in cooperation with another, committed the crime of murder when she or an accomplice unlawfully killed Michael Logsdon by turning off his BIPAP machine, which he needed to breathe.”
Donna Logsdon
Photo courtesy Barren County Detention Center
BiPap is the abbreviation for bilevel positive airway pressure.
A special prosecutor from the Office of the Kentucky Attorney General presented the case(s) to the grand jury, according to the documents. Commonwealth’s Attorney John Gardner told GN1 upon inquiry that he requested a special prosecutor “because there are a couple of issues that created a potential conflict of interest.”
Michael Logsdon’s daughter, Leighanne Bennett, was arrested Nov. 3 after a four-month investigation and charged by police with murder. After a preliminary hearing later that month, her case was to be forwarded to a grand jury. She was jailed for several days before being released Nov. 23 on a $500,000 cash bond.
Michael Logsdon’s wife, Donna Cheryl Logsdon, was arrested Saturday, after the grand jury had returned the indictments. She remained lodged in the Barren County Detention Center on Tuesday morning in lieu of a $500,000 cash bond.
Glasgow Police Department Detective Brian Starnes is the lead investigator on the case.
Each of the women is scheduled for arraignment in Barren Circuit Court at 1 p.m. Feb. 6.
Bennett also has a pretrial conference scheduled at that same time for a separate case initiated in mid-March last year in which she is charged with first-degree possession of a controlled substance, third or greater offense (methamphetamine); buying or possessing drug paraphernalia; and public intoxication with a controlled substance other than alcohol.
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