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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Former NY correction officer Ralph Keppler and his girlfriend are charged with beating the latter&#8217;s mother to death with a barbell over a failed business deal</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Keppler, 27, and Francesca Kiel, 21, have been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Francesca&#8217;s 56-year-old mother, Theresa Kiel</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Mrs Kiel was attacked with a barbell and beaten into a coma at her Long Island apt on Dec 4, 2016, allegedly by the pair of her daughter and the daughter&#8217;s boyfriend<br />
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The victim who suffered a shattered skull, losing her right eye and most of her teeth, </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>passed away from her injuries at the hospital on Saturday evening after two years in a vegetative state</strong></span></h6>
<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Prosecutors say Keppler had accused Theresa and her son of swindling him out of $350,000 that he had given them to develop a new dating ap</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">p</span></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-301558" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Ralph-Keppler-left-and-Francesca-Kiel-right-1.jpg" alt="Ralph Keppler, [left], and Francesca Kiel [right] 1.JPG" width="672" height="403" />Ralph Keppler, [left], and his girlfriend, Francesca Kiel [right], have been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Francesca&#8217;s mother, Theresa Kiel</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">A former New York City correction officer and his girlfriend have been charged with murder, two years after the pair allegedly beat the girlfriend’s mother with a barbell.<br />
Authorities in Nassau County say 27-year-old Ralph Keppler and 21-year-old Francesca Kiel, both of Lynbrook, Long Island, brutally attacked 56-year-old Theresa Kiel at her Long Beach apartment on the night of December 4, 2016.<br />
The victim lost her right eye and multiple teeth, had a portion of her skull shattered and remained in a vegetative state until she succumbed to her injuries at North Shore Manhasset Hospital on Saturday evening.<br />
Ralph Keppler, 27 (left), and his girlfriend, 21-year-old Francesca Kiel (right), have been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Francesca&#8217;s mother, Theresa Kiel..<br />
Theresa Kiel, 56, passed away on Saturday, nearly two years after being beaten into a coma with a barbell at her Long Island apartment.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone wp-image-301559" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Threesa-kiel-1.jpg" alt="Threesa kiel 1.jpg" width="672" height="817" /><strong>Victim: Theresa Kiel, [photo], passed away on Saturday, nearly two years after being beaten into a coma with a barbell at her Long Island apt, allegedly by her daughter and her boyfriend </strong></h6>
<div>In the wake of Mrs Kiel’s death, her daughter and Keppler were charged with second-degree murder. Keppler had been charged back in late January with attempted murder and assault and was out on bail. His lawyer says he&#8217;s innocent.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;Theresa Kiel was robbed of all quality of life when this defendant allegedly shattered her skull with a metal barbell as she walked to her Long Beach apartment,&#8217; Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas said in a press release from February 2018 announcing Keppler&#8217;s indictment on the initial charges, which have now been upgraded.<br />
&#8216;This barbaric attack, allegedly motivated by a business dispute and perpetrated by a then corrections officer, has left Kiel in a persistent vegetative state, and prosecutors in my office are committed to holding this defendant accountable.&#8217;</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-301560" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Threesa-kiel-being-loaded-into-ambulance-by-EMTs-1.jpg" alt="Threesa kiel being loaded into ambulance by EMTs 1.jpg" width="749" height="470" />Theresa Kiel seen [photo], being loaded into an ambulance on Dec 4, 2016, was struck in the face with such force that a portion of her skull caved in and she lost her right eye </strong></h6>
<p>Prosecutors had alleged the motive to be a business dispute.<br />
Detectives say Francesca Kiel plotted the murder, conspiring with Keppler, a former Rikers Island correction officer.<br />
Keppler had been charged back in January with attempted murder and assault and was out on bail. His lawyer says he&#8217;s innocent.<br />
After Theresa Kiel’s death, his charges were upgraded to second-degree murder — and the victim’s daughter, Francesca Kiel, also of Lynbrook, was slapped with the same charge.<br />
Francesca Kiel had not been charged until Monday. Her lawyer says the arrest came as a shock: &#8220;Francesca unfortunately has to bury her mother, while also fighting allegations, which obviously, she vehemently denies,&#8221; said defense attorney Geoffrey Prime.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-301561" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Francesca-Kiel-left-and-Ralph-Keppler-right-2.jpg" alt="Francesca Kiel [left] and Ralph Keppler, [right] 2" width="671" height="451" /><strong>Killers: Prosecutors say Francesca and her former correction officer boyfriend attacked Mrs Kiel over a business dispute </strong></h6>
<div>Prosecutors alleged that Keppler had accused Theresa Kiel and her son, Vincent, of swindling him out of $350,000 that he had given them to develop a new dating app, according to <a class="class" href="https://abc7ny.com/woman-beaten-with-barbell-dies-daughter-charged-with-murder/4672968/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ABC Eyewitness News.</a></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">According to a lawsuit filed by Keppler in May 2016, Theresa and her son spent the former prison guard’s money on cosmetic surgeries, a luxury car, hair salon appointments and clothes, reported the <a class="class" href="https://nypost.com/2018/11/12/ex-correction-officer-girlfriend-charged-with-beating-her-mom-to-death/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">New York Post.</a></p>
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<strong>Kiel&#8217;s family, has filed court documents accusing Keppler of holding Francesca ‘as a financial, emotional and sexual hostage.</strong>’</h6>
<div class="sciencetech item html_snippet_module">Theresa Kiel’s family, in turn, filed court documents accusing Keppler of holding Francesca ‘as a financial, emotional and sexual hostage.’<br />
The complaint, which was dismissed by a judge in December 2017, claimed that Keppler monitored Francesca’s phone and email, forced her to get breast implants and coerced her into saying that her own mother was prostituting her.<br />
Keppler had been out on bail, but was re-arrested on Sunday.<br />
During their arraignment on Monday, both Keppler and his girlfriend were ordered held in jail without bail.</div>
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Former New York corrections officer Ralph Keppler, his girlfriend Francesca Kiel, 21, charged with beating Kiel’s mother to death with a barbell over failed business deal
