This one sounds like bad TV movie.
Only for the victim – the owner of a Chester County landscaping business – it proved all too real. It cost him his life.
Police now believe Kevin Mengel Jr., who owned MKB Property Management LLC, a landscaping business based in West Goshen, was the victim of a plot hatched by his wife and one of his young employees.
Now Mengel is dead. His wife, Morgan Mengel, has apparently admitted to police that she was in on the plot that resulted in her husband’s murder.
And her young paramour, Stephen Michael Shappell, is also now in custody after he was picked up by police in Colorado.
Morgan Mengel, 34, was apparently having an affair with Shappell, 22, according to police. They concocted the scheme to bump off her husband, the affidavit for their arrest indicates.
And the story has a bizarre Delaware County angle as well. Shappell apparently lived in the Broomall section of Marple Township. And police say he buried the body of Kevin Mengel in a heavily wooded area behind Marple Newtown High School.
Like I said, this one has all the makings of a TV movie. Only this one all too real. Morgan Mengel and Shappell now are facing homicide charges.
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