Justice for Barbara "Bobbi" Winn

Aaron "Bubbie" Foster third degree murder trial July 14, 2008

It's been 27 years since Barbara (Bobbi) Winn was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest at her home in Maplewood. It's been almost two years since the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office took up the cold case, and it's been 7 1/2 months since Winn's boyfriend, Aaron W. Foster, was charged with third-degree murder in connection with her death.

Maplewood Police were called to Winn's town home shortly after midnight May 8, 1981.

He told the 911 operator that Barbara "took his gun from (him) and shot herself." An hour later, he told detectives he was downstairs in the kitchen when she shot herself. Now, he was again saying he witnessed the shooting, just coming in the door as Barbara pulled the trigger.

But Winn's children Randy, Tyrone and Tammi told police that they had heard Winn and Foster arguing, and saw Foster running out of the bedroom moments after hearing a gunshot.

Foster has maintained that Winn's death was a suicide. He was not charged until November 2007 when a grand jury handed up an indictment

Bill Finney, the former police chief of St. Paul, Minn, was a close friend of Barbara Winn and Aaron Foster. Bill Finney was present at Barbara's autopsy the day after she died.

There have been many eye-brow raising questions concerning this friendship and the lack of investigation in this case.

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07/14/08

Jury selection begins

Former St. Paul Police Chief Bill Finney will be allowed to tell jurors about an alleged prior incident of abuse between his friend Aaron W. Foster and Foster's girlfriend, Barbara (Bobbi) Winn, that occurred about five months before Winn was fatally shot, according to court documents.

Winn's children also will testify about what they recall about the night 27 years ago when they awoke, ran into their mother's room and found her slumped over from a gunshot wound to her chest.

Finney and the three children, now grown, are among 27 witnesses whom prosecutors may call to testify at Foster's trial in Ramsey County District Court. Jury selection begins today. Testimony could start this week or next.

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