Confessed killer found dead in apartment at On the Beat in the Bluegrass

Confessed killer found dead in apartment

Published

on September 1, 2008

. Tags: Brenda Schaefer, Mel Ignatow, Rita Taylor.

The Associated Press

LOUISVILLE — A Louisville man who admitted killing his girlfriend after a jury acquitted him 17 years ago has died.

Deputy Coroner Rita Taylor told The Courier-Journal that an autopsy is planned for Mel Ignatow and that the cause of death isn’t yet known. Ignatow was in his late 60s.

Ignatow admitted killing 36-year-old Brenda Schaefer after film was found in 1992 in the heating duct of a house he had owned. The film showed Ignatow torturing Schaefer the night she died in 1988.

A jury had found Ignatow innocent of the crime in 1991 and released him. He eventually served four years of a nine-year sentence for perjury and was released less than two years ago.

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Ashlee Clark is the Richmond bureau reporter for the Herald-Leader. She has covered general assignments in Madison, Clark, Estill, Powell and Montgomery counties since she joined the newspaper in September 2007. Ashlee, a Louisville native, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she received degrees in journalism and sociology.

Shawntaye Hopkins is the Herald-Leader’s police reporter, covering local law enforcement, fire and EMS and breaking news. She joined the staff in September 2006 as the newspaper’s night police reporter. Shawntaye, a Louisville native, graduated from Western Kentucky University where she studied journalism and criminology. Shawntaye resides in Lexington.

Delano Massey is the Herald-Leader’s Regional Editor. He works closely with the paper’s bureau reporters and police and courts reporters to plan coverage, pursue breaking news and seek out enterprise stories. A Northeast Ohio native, Delano started his journalism career as a night cops reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat. In 2003, he made the trek to Lexington to take the reins as the newspaper’s daytime cops reporter. Delano, a graduate of the University of Akron, has won numerous awards for breaking news, spot news and investigative journalism.

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