{"id":13766,"date":"2019-02-11T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/former-principal-accused-of-killing-husband-for-life-insurance-due-in-court\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:05:00","slug":"former-principal-accused-of-killing-husband-for-life-insurance-due-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/02\/11\/former-principal-accused-of-killing-husband-for-life-insurance-due-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Principal Accused Of Killing Husband For Life Insurance Due In Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Feb. 11–A former elementary school principal charged with murder in her husband’s shooting is due in court Friday for a hearing to determine if attorneys are prepared to proceed to trial later this month.<\/p>\n

Leslie Chance, 52, faces a life term in prison if convicted of the first-degree murder charge filed against her.<\/p>\n

Chance was first arrested days after the body of Todd Chance, 45, was found the morning of Aug. 25, 2013, in a field off a dirt section of Noriega Road near Enos Lane.<\/p>\n

She was released days later when prosecutors requested further investigation on the part of sheriff’s investigators. Detectives rearrested her in December 2016, and she’s been held without bail ever since.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Chance and her husband arrived in the field in Todd Chance’s Ford Mustang, and she shot him. She then abandoned the car in a southwest Bakersfield neighborhood before getting home by using a taxi and walking, court documents allege.<\/p>\n

She denied leaving her house the morning of her husband’s death, documents said, but surveillance cameras captured her at multiple locations as she made her way home.<\/p>\n

Chance stood to receive $250,000 from her husband’s life insurance policies, the documents said. It’s alleged she learned about criminal investigative techniques and tried to cover her tracks through information she gained after attending a “CSI” exhibit in Las Vegas about two months before the killing.<\/p>\n

She was principal at Fairview Elementary School at the time of the slaying.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a man charged with gunning down three people in 2010 will be in court for a hearing regarding his competency to stand trial.<\/p>\n

Tokunbo Okuwoga, 30, shot dead three people inside a Bakersfield house to eliminate witnesses against him in connection with a beating and attempted robbery case, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Those killed in the 2010 shootings were Felipe Juarez Bravo Jr., 21, Bravo’s live-in girlfriend, Daina Caraveo, 22, and Bravo’s father, Felipe Palacio Bravo, 43.<\/p>\n

Okuwoga faces 14 charges, including three counts of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n

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