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A jury of nine men and three women on Friday afternoon found Jayme Schnackenberg guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting death of Kimberly Hardy — a decision they reached following a five-day trial in Aroostook County Superior Court in Houlton.
On Monday, the first day of the trial, the state told the jurors that Schnackenberg, 41, of Monticello murdered his girlfriend of six years by shooting her twice in the head and that he thought he could get away with it because he had hidden her body in a remote wooded area off the Harvey Siding Road where she would not be found.
Schnackenberg’s attorneys have acknowledged their client shot and killed Hardy, but they argued it was done in self-defense while the two were fighting.
During testimony on Thursday, Schnackenberg clearly described an alleged kitchen altercation that he said led to the shooting death of his girlfriend, but he said he was unable to recall any details about how, when or why he discarded her body.
