(KRON) — A Los Altos woman who attempted to kill her estranged husband while the couple was going through a bitter divorce will appear in front of a state parole board Friday asking for freedom.
Laura Jean Wenke was dressed in bubble wrap and a jumpsuit when she repeatedly stabbed her husband in the neck and chest during the 2011 attack in Redwood City, prosecutors said. The couple had an eight-year-old son together. During her 2014 trial, she was dubbed the “Bubble Wrap Attacker.”
Wenke has served 13 years behind bars. The prisoner, who is now 63 years old, was 50 at the time of the attempted murder.
Wenke will ask to be released from custody when she appears at a parole hearing Friday in Central California Women’s Facility California State Prison Chowchilla. She was denied parole at three prior hearings held in 2020, 2021, and 2023.
On September 15, 2011, she co-owned a business with her 48-year-old husband. “They were going through a bitter divorce and (Wenke) was unhappy that victim had a new girlfriend,” the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office wrote.