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Jessamine man held in fatal beating, Carlisle woman was killed at farm

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on January 20, 2009

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. Tags: burglary, Carlisle, Fair Trial Farm, Gary T. Mastin, homicide, lexington police, Pauline Mastin.

By Brandon Ortiz
bortiz@herald-leader.com

A Jessamine County man was charged Monday with murder and burglary in connection with the beating death of a Carlisle woman who was staying at a relative’s farm off Paris Pike in Lexington.

Gary T. Stone, 31, was charged Monday with murder, first-degree assault and first-degree burglary. He was being held in the Jessamine County jail.

Stone was arrested Saturday morning in Jessamine County on an unrelated arrest warrant. Lexington police obtained a murder warrant on Monday.

Stone is accused of fatally beating Pauline Mastin, 43, who was staying at a relatives home at 567 Muir Station Road, the location of Fair Trial Farm.

Lt. James Curless said a security guard at a neighboring farm saw a vehicle leaving Fair Trial Farm some time after 4:30 a.m. Since it’s odd for a vehicle to be out at that hour, the guard wrote down a description of the vehicle and its license plate number.

“It gave us a significant investigative lead,” Curless said.

Curless said the suspect broke into the home and assaulted Mastin and her brother, farm manager Bart Mastin.

Bart Mastin was taken to the University of Kentucky hospital with serious but not life- threatening injuries.

Curless called Pauline Mastin “a truly innocent victim.”

Reach Brandon Ortiz at (859) 231-1443 or 1-800-950-6397, Ext. 1443.

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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.