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T he P ortland O bserver • M ay 14, 1997
Du Pont gets 13 to 30 years for murder
Millionaire's claim of mental disease in wrestlers death rejected
Pont was found guilty but mentally
ill on a charge o f third-degree m ur
der in Schultz’s killing.
Earlier Tuesday, Jenkins ordered
that du Pont receive treatment for
what she determined was a contin
ued severe mental disability.
At the sentenc mg hearing, m en
tal health experts said du Pont no
longer suffers from the paranoid
schizophrenia that made him see
ghosts But two defense doctors tes
tified that he could return to the abyss
if forced to serve his sentence in
prison rather than a mental hospital.
Jenkins heard testimony from doc
tors, friends and Schultz’s widow
before announcing the sentence. Du
More than a year after John E.
du Pont fired three deadly shots at
Olympic champion wrestler David
Schultz, the chemicals heir was sen
tenced Tuesday to 13 to 30 years in
prison for the crime.
D elaw are C ounty C om m on
Pleas Judge Patricia Jenkins pro
nounced the sentence after a day
long hearing during which du Pont
apologized to Schultz’s widow and
children.
“1 wish to apologize to Nancy
Schultz and her children, and I’m
very sorry for what happened,” du
Pont said, speaking publicly for the
first time about the killing.
In February, the 58-year-old du
Pont could have received to five to
40 years in custody and a $50,000
fine.
Two defense experts and one
for the prosecution testified that eight
months o f treatment at Norristown
State Hospital have countered du
Pont’s paranoid schizophrenia.
They said he no longer poses a
threat to him self or others, a yard
stick for determining where he should
begin serving his sentence.
But the defense experts said they
fear a lack o f controls in prison will
allow du Pont to stop taking his anti
psychotic dnigs.
“Were he to either be placed in
a stressful situation ... or he stop
du Pont would someday return home.
Du Pont killed Schultz, 38, as
the 1984 Olympic gold medalist was
tinkering with his car in the driveway
o f his home on the edge o f du Pont’s
Newtown Square estate and wres
tling center.
Du Pont locked him self inside
his mansion for two days after the
shooting, negotiating with police on
the telephone.
He was captured when he walked
outside to fix his heater.
„ .. Witnesses said du Pont’s,slide
into mental illness began after his
mother died in 1988. Jurors heard
tales o f du Pont using cocaine, casu
ally toting around guns and believ-
taking his medication, that would
again show an acute exacerbation o f
the paranoid illness ... and he would
pose a potential danger to himself
and others,” forensic psychologist
Gerald Cooke said.
Prosecution, widow looked for
long sentence Prosecutors pressed
for a stiff sentence. Nancy Schultz
also asked for a lengthy sentence for
the man who killed her husband on
January 26, 1996, and left her two
children without their father.
D e fe n se la w y e r T hom as
Bergstrom was pleased with the Feb
ruary 25 verdict even though the jury
rejected his client’s insanity defense.
Bergstrom has expressed hope that
mg he was the Dalai Lama.
Defense psychiatrists testified
that du Pont killed Schultz out o f a
paranoid delusion that the wrestler,
his longtime friend, was an agent o f
an international conspiracy to kill
him.
Prosecutors said du Pont killed
Schultz because he was jealous o f
the respect Schultz commanded in
the wrestling world. Nancy Schultz
has sued du Pont for damages result
ing from her husband’s death.
Du Pont also has an agreement
pending in court that would allow
estranged relatives to take over con
trol o f his financial affairs, valued at
an estimated $250 million.
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