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The case against Victoria Searcy, the woman accused of stabbing a Bald Knob Road man March 17, was sent to the grand jury after a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Franklin District Court.
After a 12-minute hearing, District Judge Kathy Mangeot ruled there was probable cause that Searcy committed first-degree assault after allegedly stabbing Lewis R. Hensley at his home at 6540 Bald Knob Road.
However, what happened before the stabbing came to light in testimony by Kentucky State Police detective Mike Carnahan, lead investigator on the case.
While Searcy, 39, often stood motionless in handcuffs and void of expression, Carnahan said she and Hensley were involved in a volatile relationship. Carnahan testified Searcy told him that a few days before the stabbing incident, she got a room at Days Inn after Hensley had abused her.
The morning of the incident, the pair talked on the phone, worked things out and Hensley picked her up at the motel and they went back to his residence, Carnahan said. But that same day, the abuse began again, according to Searcy’s story, Carnahan said.
Carnahan said later that day, Hensley went to his bedroom and called Searcy where she found him naked. He forced her to perform oral sex, according to Searcy as quoted by Carnahan.
According to Searcy’s interview, her performance was not to Hensley’s liking and he began hitting her on the head, Carnahan said.
Then, Searcy picked up a 6-inch filet knife the kind used to clean fish from a bedside nightstand and stabbed Hensley in the stomach below the left side of his ribcage, Carnahan testified.
Franklin County Attorney Rick Sparks asked Carnahan why the knife was on the nightstand. Carnahan said Searcy did not know.
Investigators found the knife in a field the day of the stabbing, after Searcy told them where it was, Carnahan said.
Additionally, Carnahan testified a butcher knife was found a few days later, wrapped and underneath a bed in the house. Its significance was never made clear during the hearing.
On cross examination, Searcy’s attorney, Jamhal Woolridge, asked Carnahan why further tests weren’t run in the hospital to determine if there’d been other forced sex. Carnahan said interviews didn’t lead him to believe further testing was needed.
Woolridge then questioned Hensley’s criminal record and his listing on the Kentucky State Police’s online sex offender registry. Sparks objected, saying those charges weren’t relevant to this incident.
Woolridge also questioned whether the incident should be classified as a first-degree assault. Sparks said stabbing with a knife a deadly weapon indicates the appropriate first-degree assault charge.
Additionally, the defense attorney asked that Searcy be released on her own recognizance because of a past clean slate of conduct. Sparks said she no longer has a clean record.
Mangeot denied the request. "The court’s not willing to release her based on what I’ve heard today."
Woolridge brought up the sex offender registry again after the hearing. "That should tell you something about what happened that day," he said.
Hensley, 54, is identified on the KSP sex offender registry as being compliant with the terms of his release. It lists his offenses requiring registration as two counts of first-degree sexual abuse.
Searcy wore an orange prison-issue jumpsuit and her brunette hair was parted on the left, falling to curls below her shoulders. She remained silent through the hearing and showed little or no emotion.
Hensley was not in court. He was flown to the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center the day of the incident and spent days there being treated. His brother Willie said Tuesday he is home recuperating. "He’s still in pretty bad shape," Willie Hensley said.
Lewis Hensley did not return a message left with his brother.
Carnahan told The State Journal after the hearing that Hensley denied abusing Searcy and did not know why she stabbed him. "He didn’t have a clue," Carnahan said. "He was surprised."
Woolridge expected Searcy’s indictment to come soon, possibly next Wednesday.