Photo: Kendall Skye Desetta
A woman involved in a stabbing incident at a Lake Norfork marina in late August 2015 appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday facing the revocation of her 10-year suspended sentence in the case.
In a revocation petition filed July 26, Kendall Skye Desetta of Gassville is charged with failing to report to her supervising officer, not living at her registered address and avoiding all contact with probation officers.
Desetta had entered a not guilty plea to the allegations in the petition, but after a short hearing, her probation was revoked and she was sentenced to two years in prison, followed by eight years probation.
Desetta claims that any recent lapses in her adherence to the terms and conditions of her probation were due to dealing “with a lot of mental issues, spiritual issues.”
The fact her probation was revoked did not sit well with Desetta. “I am getting all this after I have already done five years?” she asked.
In the 2015 case, Desetta was arrested along with a co-defendant, Anna Runau. Both females were in their late teens at the time of the stabbing incident.
Photo: Anna Renae Runau
Desetta is now 23-years of age, and Runau a year older.
They were charged with luring a then 44-year-old Salem man to the lake using the promise of a sexual encounter.
They had initially met the victim at a nightclub located along Cranfield Road. The two teens contacted him later by telephone and text message proposing that he pick them up and the trio would go for a swim in the lake.
While a sexual encounter was not mentioned initially, the final message did propose “a threesome.”
According to court records, the girls intended to stab the victim, slit his throat and steal his pickup truck for a trip they planned to Indiana.
Shortly after the victim and the two teens arrived at the lake, Runau attacked the man with a knife.
The victim reported being stabbed six-to-nine-times in the neck, shoulder and arm.
The attack began in the lake and continued as the victim fled back to his truck. The window in the vehicle was down, allowing Runau to stab the man several times in the arm.
Desetta eventually pled guilty to a robbery charge stemming from the incident and was put on probation for 120 months.
Runau, who was determined to be the major player in the incident, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a criminal attempt to commit capital murder charge.
She is an inmate in the McPherson Unit of the state prison system at Newport.
At the time of the stabbing incident, Desetta had been listed as a juvenile runaway for more than a month and had reportedly been harbored by Runau.
In mid August last year, Anna Runau’s sister, 22-year-old Amber, was arrested and charged with stabbing a close family friend to death.
The 72-year-old victim was reported to have been a babysitter for both Anna and Amber Runau.
Recently, Amber Runau was found not mentally fit to proceed in her case. No action will be taken in her case until the court is notified that she is either fit to proceed or that her fitness to proceed cannot be restored.
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