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Lara Sobel

Case from Barre, VT dated Aug 07, 2015

Victim Details

Lara Sobel

Female

White / Caucasian

Barre

VT

2015-08-07

48

Lara

Sobel

Yes

07/08/2026

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On a summer afternoon in Barre, Vermont, the life of Lara Sobel, a 48-year-old White female social worker, was brought to a tragic and abrupt end. On August 7, 2015, as she was leaving her office at the Department for Children and Families she was confronted by Jody Herring, a 40-year-old woman who had recently lost custody of her nine-year-old daughter in a case that Sobel had been involved with. Herring, armed with a hunting rifle, shot Sobel twice, killing her in the parking lot. The brazen a ...
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