After going to bed on July 3, 2003, Tamara Bohler took a knife from the kitchen and repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend, Jean Marc Weber, in an attempt to kill him while he was sleeping.  She stabbed him in the neck and face, as well as his upper body and arms.  Weber woke up and was able to disarm Bohler, but as he struggled to get away, she pushed him down the stairs.  Weber was able to flee to a neighbor’s house, bleeding profusely, and called the police.  

Bohler then returned to the kitchen and took another knife, which she carried with her into the room of Weber’s sleeping 13-year-old son, Alex.  She brutally stabbed him thirteen times while he was lying in his bed.  Alex suffered multiple defense wounds to his body as he attempted to protect himself from Bohler’s attack.  He collapsed and died at the top of the stairs.  Bohler, who had been naked during the attacks, quickly dressed and fled the house before police arrived. 

The defense entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, but the jury found that Bohler was both guilty and sane at the time of the crime. She was sentenced to life in prison.