On a rainy Saturday night, Hulbert and two friends, Michael Pfohl, 22, and Katherine Inglis, 20, drove to Robert Schwartz's fieldstone farmhouse, authorities said. The pair were drawn together by a shared fascination with witchcraft and the occult, and Hulbert, who fancied himself a warrior, quickly dubbed himself Clara Schwartz's protector, prosecutors said. Ultimately, she persuaded one of them - Kyle Hulbert - to do it, according to testimony.Ĭlara Schwartz met Hulbert, 19, who had a long history of mental illness, at a local Renaissance festival in fall 2001. Eventually, prosecutors said, Clara Schwartz's anger turned to hatred, and she sought out two young men to kill him. When Horne asked Clara Schwartz if she had anything to tell the court, she replied: "Nothing that hasn't already been said."Ĭlara Schwartz had long had a troubled relationship with her father, a noted expert on DNA sequencing, and complained that he poisoned her food, yanked her hair and disapproved of her clothes and friends, according to court testimony. "It's hard enough it was my father, but on top of that to have my sister committing such a horrible crime." "It's been nothing but a nightmare since the first day I found out," Michele Schwartz testified. ![]() Jesse Schwartz, 25, said he thinks of his father's death - and his sister's role - every day. Michele Schwartz, 22, told the judge that she is haunted by nightmares of her father's last moments and that the sight of a knife makes her uneasy. "We don't shift blame to others."Ĭlara Schwartz faced her brother and sister yesterday, as both testified that no sentence, no matter how severe, could bring justice. "We are responsible for our actions," Horne said. But she had "set in motion a series of events that led to the terrible death," Loudoun Circuit Judge Thomas D. Schwartz was stabbed with a 27-inch sword as he sat down to dinner in his remote Leesburg farmhouse. Schwartz, 20, was at James Madison University on Dec. ![]() Clara Jane Schwartz, a former college student obsessed by vampires, assassins and magic, was sentenced yesterday to 48 years in prison for persuading a friend to kill her father, a respected Loudoun County scientist.
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