Nearly eight years after a massacre in Carnation that left six people dead, Michele Anderson goes on trial in Seattle Monday morning.
- Anderson accused of killing 6 family members in 2007
- Boyfriend Joe McEnroe found guilty and sentenced to life in prison
- Death penalty not sought for Anderson
- Anderson pleaded not guilty, claims she is insane
Anderson, 37, is accused of killing six family members on Christmas Eve in 2007.
She is charged with one count of first-degree murder for each of the victims.
Investigators say Anderson and her boyfriend, Joe McEnroe, shot her parents and then hid their bodies, cleaned up and then waited for her brother and his family to arrive.
When Anderson's brother, Scott, and his family arrived, Anderson fired the first shot at Scott, according to detectives. Then McEnroe shot Scott and killed Erica Anderson and the couple's two young children, Olivia, 5, and Nathan, 3, according to charging documents.
McEnroe was convicted of six counts of aggravated murder last spring. The jury could not agree on the death penalty, so McEnroe was sentenced to life in prison. When McEnroe was spared from the death penalty, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg decided to no longer to seek the death penalty in the Anderson case.
Prosecutors say the two are equally responsible.
"It is our belief that she was as involved as he was in the murder of her family," said Scott O'Toole, senior deputy prosecuting attorney.
Anderson has pleaded not guilty, but has chosen not to meet with her attorneys. According to court records, the last time she met with them was in October. Anderson claims she is insane, but the defense expert who examined her six months after the murders said she isn't.