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UPDATE: Person of Interest's former girlfriend allegedly committed suicide earlier this year.
Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 ; 02:20 PM | View Comments | Post Comment
Updated Wednesday, December 31, 2008; 02:28 PM


Paul J. Balmer
Photo Credit: Scioto County Sheriff's Dept.
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Sheriff is reviewing the suicide case.
*Listen to the 911 recording of the call*

FRANKLIN FURNACE, Ohio --  Update: Dec. 31 at 2:20 p.m.

Scioto County Police say 47 year-old Paul Balmer has been arrested in Middleburg, Florida.

Earlier this year, Balmer's girlfriend Robin Lee Rose was found dead by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. In a news release issued Wednesday, Scioto County Sheriff Marty V. Donini said he is reviewing the case investigation pertaining to the death of Robin Lee Rose to determine if evidence and circumstances concerning her death were accurately interpreted as a "self inflicted" gunshot wound.

Balmer was wanted as a "person of Interest" in the triple homicide case in Franklin Furnace Dec. 21. Balmer is the boyfriend of the primary suspect in that shooting, Kara Garvin.

Florida police arrested Balmer Sunday. He is expected to be extradited to Ohio this week. He will face unrelated drug charges once he returns to Scioto County.

Garvin will have a preliminary hearing this Friday in Scioto County Court.

Update: Dec. 26

We are following up on a case of triple homicide this week in Scioto County Ohio. The funerals for the three victims of those fatal shootings will be this Sunday. Meanwhile, the hearing for the woman charged with those murders was postponed Friday.

Kara Garvin's hearing was supposed to Friday morning but was pushed to Jan. 2.

Original Story A father, mother and daughter are dead, after a triple shooting in Scioto County, Ohio.

Scioto County Sheriff Marty Donini said the bodies of Edward Mollett, 46, Juanita Mollett, 43, and their daughter, Christina Mollett, 20, were found in their home on Snook Road Monday evening.

The 911 center received a call around 6:30 p.m. Monday from a nearby neighbor who called with information from a 6-year old relative. The child ran to the house after witnessing his relatives being shot.

The suspect, Kara Garvin, 29, from Franklin Furnace, turned herself into authorities late Monday night, with local attorney, Rick Nash.

Garvin is charged with three counts of aggravated murder.

Sheriff Donini said the victims and the suspect appear to have been known acquaintances.

Garvin is being held on a $1.5-million dollar bond.

A prelminary hearing is scheduled for December 26 at 11:00 a.m. in Portsmouth Municipal Court.

Click here to listen to the entire 911 recording of the call

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someone who cares
4/8/09 at 1:07 PM		 Report Abuse
To all who have posted. Kara has NEVER admitted guilt. She never physically or verbally abused her child. She did not live with a ton of men. She was and is married. Yes, she made wrong choices in her life. You don't know the facts and there is far more to this story than many know. You may someday and I hope that you who convicted her without a trial may feel some guilt. But as Jesus said let the one of you without sin cast the first stone. Are you without sin?
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Michelle
2/13/09 at 3:42 PM		 Report Abuse
Shelly, I don't know who you are or even who you think you are but saying that Kara mistreated her daughter is nothing short of a malicious lie!!! She may have done a lot of terrible things, but she has NEVER mistreated her daughter, and until YOU get your facts straight,, I suggest you put a lid on it!!!
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Yvonne
2/2/09 at 8:21 AM		 Report Abuse
Gee, I did say nobody knows what went on , but it is irrelevant in answer to JL. However, read what JL said, then what I said dear. I said nobody knows what went on in reference to what could have led up to the murders. It is totally irrelevant what caused the murders to happen, they happened. Even if the people owed her money for drugs, that is no cause for MURDER. So, I stand by my comment that it is totally irrelevant what happened, because murder was the final blow. She admitted to the murder. Need I go further? Besides, her car was identified as leaving the scene. You forget darlin', there was a witness left alive. By accident I am sure.
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Gee
1/22/09 at 1:58 PM		 Report Abuse
CC what is up with that stupid comment? Nobody knows what went on that night, but that is irrelevant.... How can you admit that no one knows and then say it's irrelevant that nobody knows? If nobody knows what went on then how do you KNOW Kara did it? There's more to this story than you know, that's a real fact and that is relevant !
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Shelly
1/7/09 at 3:48 PM		 Report Abuse
Just to let you all know... Kara was a mean and hateful person. She has a child too that she mistreated. She has lived with tons of men that give her drugs. She would rather kill a person than look at you! This is not the only terrible things she did. She was just not caught by the crappy Portsmouth area police. Crime and drugs are out of control there!
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j.b
12/30/08 at 10:28 PM		 Report Abuse
JL are you for real??? I bet you are not from Ohio and probably her family by your views. You expect us Ohio tax payers to pay for her room and board, better meals than most tax payers and visits from her family when the deased Mollet family will never again be with their family or eat a meal that they earn. If you want to quote the bible I can do that too for I have been in church many years. The bible says an eye for an eye, If your hand offend thee than cut it off, and also quoted many times about taking the life of a person that took a life. It says to obey the law of the land. So if it is not against the law to execute a murderer than why would God judge the person doing so? And by the way you do not pull a plug it is Lethal Injection which they go into a peaceful sleep. Which is more than the Molletts got and much more than the Murderer deserves
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JL
12/30/08 at 2:23 PM		 Report Abuse
Yes ,I do know where you are coming from.I don't condone anyone who committs murder, and they should pay .I just don't believe getting even .I sure couldn't pull the plug could you?Then we would be no better than her.I feel that what ever the out come,she will suffer in the pen and she will have to be judged on that judgemt day by one so greater than you and I.Regardless what will come she will pay......
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CC
12/30/08 at 8:17 AM		 Report Abuse
Yes JL, nobody knows what went on that night, but that is irrelevant to the fact that she actually murdered three people. Who cares what went on, nothing could have provoked her to murder in cold blood, nothing acceptable anyway. Murder is murder. You pay the price. Lynch mob??? Hardly
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J.L.
12/29/08 at 11:27 PM		 Report Abuse
I am sorry ,But you all sound like a 1800s linch mob.I do not condone any one that takes a life no matter the circumstances.This is something that needs to be up to God.I can't see that any of us really knows what went on that night...I just know there are a lot of hurt families and the one to consentrate on now is that little boy..I just think we should pray for all involved....DRUGS!!!! That is what is taking over our society today...Our Children has to much time on their hands... The parents don't set them straight like they used to ..The kids tell the parents what to do today.....They need disapline and God back in their lives and back in the schools......
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J.B.
12/29/08 at 8:52 PM		 Report Abuse
This is so sad for the families of the Molletts and also sad for family of Kara. Yes if she is proven quilty she does deserve the Death penalty and also the man if he was involved and proven guilty. But the thing is I have never heard of Portsmouth courts ever giving anyone the Death Penalty. There was a man that got life which killed 4 people here a few years back. He killed his girlfriend, her son, then drove to Sciotoville and killed her mother and her aunt. He only left one person and that was because the man he left was Mentally handicapped. So don't expect to much from portsmouth courts
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DB Stuart
12/27/08 at 10:40 PM		 Report Abuse
I second and Amen Scott's post.
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Scott
12/23/08 at 8:50 PM		 Report Abuse
Give her the death penalty if found guilty or why don't we bring we just bring back Hanging like back in the day??? We as Tax payers and working people don't need to feed people in jail like this!! I think this is very sickening especially around Christmas people like this are heartless. May god bless the family of the dececced.
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