BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont woman accused of shooting her mother and then burning her body in a backyard fire pit is out of jail.
Fifty-nine-year-old Jeanne Sevigny, of Westford, posted $150,000 bail Wednesday.
Sevigny is accused of killing Mary Wilcox, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and was reported missing by her family in 2006. Last month, prosecutors charged her daughter with second-degree murder.
Sevigny’s lawyer has said she found her mother with a pistol and was trying to wrest it from her when it went off, shooting Wilcox in the chest. He says Sevigny then panicked and made some bad decisions after the accidental shooting.
While out on bail, Sevigny is not to have contact with her son, who prosecutors say buried a suitcase containing Wilcox’s remains.
