Husband threatened to kill wife and leave 4 kids without parents years before murder-suicide
A Minnesota father-of-four once threatened to kill his wife and leave their kids “without parents” – years before fatally stabbing her and turning a gun on himself with their baby granddaughter nearby, according to cops and chilling court documents. Cops responding to a 911 call about an assault instead found Lisa Thigpen, 37, and her husband Gregory Thigpen, 41, dead in an apparent murder-suicide inside their North St.Paul home just before 1 a.m.
on Nov.1, police said. The couple’s 14-month-old granddaughter was also inside the house but was found unharmed, according to cops. Police noted that Lisa had suffered visible stab wounds, while Gregory appeared to have died from a gunshot. Their official causes of death had not been released as of Friday afternoon, though, cops noted, the attack was believed to be an “isolated incident” involving the married couple. Disturbing court records, however, reveal that the wife had endured a lengthy history of violence at the hands of her future killer.
Gregory’s abuse against Lisa seemingly kicked off after the birth of their first daughter, now 22, when the twisted dad was sentenced to 90 days behind bars on a criminal conviction of domestic assault that caused bodily harm for an incident involving Lisa in 2006, court records obtained by The Post reveal.Following that incident, Gregory and Lisa still went on to have three more children together – now ages 17, 15 and 13, according to a GoFundMe created to support the kids after their parents’ deaths – and even tied the knot in 2015. But the violence seemingly ramped up soon into their marriage, with Lisa detailing Gregory’s abuse in a September 2018 petition for a restraining order against him, court records show.
“The verbal and emotional abuse has been throughout our relationship and have escalated over the past year – threatening to kill me, kill me and himself, and leave the kids without parents,” the terrified mom wrote of Gregory.“H...