Weare
Cheryl Maher, strangled and stabbed in Weare last week, may have achieved in death what she had desperately sought in life: a triumph-over-tragedy rewrite of her episodes of addiction, mental illness, jail time and bitter custody fights. Maher's Facebook page continues to get new adoring posts from her 1,094 "friends,"…
July 17, 2011
My Turn
I know there was nothing I could have done to prevent the tragedy of Cheryl Maher's death. But something in me flickered, like failure, when I heard she was the victim in a murder-suicide who had been strangled, bludgeoned, stabbed and left for speculation. I'd written about Cheryl in the past, after getting…
July 17, 2011
Weare
State authorities confirmed yesterday that Cheryl Maher was killed in her Weare home this weekend by the 18-year-old son of her boyfriend. But the murder-suicide did not happen in quick succession, they said. Jacob Geiser strangled and stabbed Maher, 41, at their River Road home and then committed a home invasion 1.4…
July 13, 2011
Weare
The attorney general's office says that 18-year-old Jacob Geiser killed Cheryl Maher, 41, before committing a home invasion nearby and taking his own life. In a news release this afternoon, the office said Maher and Geiser both lived at 1724 River Road in Weare. Maher had lived there about three months with Joseph…
July 12, 2011
Robert Gehrke was in the middle of an interview with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on the last day of the legislative session in March 2010 when House Majority Leader Kevin Garn called him three times. The Salt Lake Tribune reporter had been asking around about an email sent to the newsroom a day or two earlier from Cheryl Maher, a woman living in New Hampshire who claimed she had sat…
July 12, 2011
Weare
The two people found dead at 1724 River Road in Weare on Sunday were identified yesterday as Cheryl Maher and the son of her new fiance by friends, family and neighbors. The attorney general's office is calling the incident an apparent murder-suicide but didn't provide further information yesterday about the…
July 12, 2011
For years before she was killed Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide, Cheryl Maher was locked in a contentious and increasingly public battle with her ex-husband over custody of their three children, a dispute that went all the way to the state Supreme Court. Maher, 41, was killed early Sunday in what the attorney general's office is describing as a murder-suicide in Weare. Authorities…
July 12, 2011
Weare
Two people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide that took place early yesterday at 1724 River Road in Weare, according to the police. Officials have not identified the victims, but Cheryl Maher, whose Facebook profile was filled with condolences last night, registered for a state business license at the Weare address…
July 11, 2011