Sentenced: Ex-Boyfriend Douses Woman With Gasoline, Lights Her on Fire

[Sugar Cookie]

A New York state man, angry that his ex-girlfriend was putting his belongings on the street and posting on Facebook about it, is now standing trial for dousing 27-year-old Elisabeth Bell with gasoline and setting her on fire.

Bell was found dead in her Buffalo home early in the morning on January 11, 2018. Frank Bredt Jr, the 33-year-old ex-boyfriend, was found several blocks away by police officers who followed footprints in the snow from the home’s backdoor.

Bell’s brother, Nicholas Altemoos, testified Tuesday that he saw Bredt walk in the back door that night and go upstairs toward Bell’s bedroom. He said he heard loud noises, and then Bell’s 7-year-old daughter scream.

Altenoos said he ran toward the stairs but saw Bredt coming down “fully engulfed in fire.”

“His jacket, his jeans, his everything,” Altenoos testifed. “I got out of the way and threw dishwater on him from the dishpan.”

Bell’s daughter suffered burns to her feet when she ran past her mother’s burning body screaming.

Bredt and Bell had a volatile relationship, prosecutors said. The pair had broken up about two weeks earlier, and Bredt moved out of the home he had shared with Bell, her mother, her daughter, and two brothers.

Buffalo Police Officer Brian Griffin testified that Bredt was found in the driveway of a house he’d just broken into. The husband and father of the house beat him up and threw him out, Griffin said. He was badly burned.

Investigators said they found a gallon-sized plastic bottle with Bredt’s DNA on it on the floor of Bell’s bedroom. It had contained gasoline, Assistant District Attorney Rebecca Schnirel told jurors in her opening statement. They also found two lighters between the first and second floors and gasoline on Bell’s mattress.

Bredt’s attorney, however said that prosecutors had no proof that Bredt started the fire

 

[Satanica]

Omg, her poor little daughter. I wish I could set his sorry ass on fire and watch him burn.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A 33-year-old man in upstate New York may spend the rest of his life behind bars after a jury convicted him of murdering his girlfriend by dousing her in gasoline and intentionally setting both her and their house on fire, prosecutors said. A jury in Erie County on Tuesday found Frank J. Bredt, Jr. guilty on one count of second-degree intentional murder and one count of felony murder for the 2018 slaying of 28-year-old Elisabeth Bell, the district attorney’s office announced.

Man Convicted of Killing Girlfriend by Dousing Her in Gasoline and Setting Their House Ablaze, Burning Himself in Process of 'Horrific Domestic Violence': DA

Frank J. Bredt, Jr. on Tuesday was convicted of murdering Elisabeth Bell by dousing her in gasoline and setting her on fire inside of their home in 2018.

lawandcrime.com

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A Buffalo man will spend the next 25 years to life in prison for setting his girlfriend on fire with the intention of causing her death.

Frank J. Bredt, Jr., 34, was sentenced Friday morning before State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller to the maximum sentence. A jury found Bredt, Jr. guilty of murder in the second degree following a six-day trial in March.

Investigators say on January 11, 2018, Bredt poured an accelerant onto his girlfriend and set her on fire inside in their Manhattan Avenue home. He also set himself on fire in the process, as well as the home. In the course of setting the victim on fire, the defendant set fire to himself and the home.

Buffalo Police and Buffalo Fire responded to the scene, where they found the body of Elisabeth Bell, 28. She was located on the second floor.

Five other people in the home were able to escape, including Bell's 7-year-old daughter who suffered burns to her feet.

Officials say Bredt ran out of the house and tried to hide, despite suffering from burns. He was found a short time later by police in a nearby home. He was taken to ECMC with severe burns on his body. He remained hospitalized for over a year in the hospital's burn treatment center.

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/crime/buffalo-man-sentenced-to-25-years-to-life-in-p

 

[Twisted_Dreams]

Wow... it's not often that you see someone so ridiculously stupid and incompetent that they actually maim themselves that badly when trying to kill someone else. I mean, he had to spend more than a year in the hospital getting treatment for his self-inflicted burns.

Well... all of this started 'cause she was kicking stupid ass out... but on the bright side (..for him, at least..), he doesn't have to worry about getting kicked out again for at least the next 25 yrs... so he's got that going for him. Plus... depending on how badly he was scarred from the burns, he probably has less to worry about someone making him into their girlfriend. I mean, who the Hell looks at Freddy Krueger and thinks, "Mmmm... I've gotta get me some of that!"

 

[Sugar Cookie]

This is what the piece of shit looks like now,

Not sure why but he was in a wheel chair on Evil Lives Here- The Killer Speaks

The mother of the victim seems like a real weirdo.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

I did enjoy this:

“Buffalo Police Officer Brian Griffin testified that Bredt was found in the driveway of a house he’d just broken into. The husband and father of the house beat him up and threw him out, Griffin said. He was badly burned.”