Crystal Bolin, 31, of Fairfield, who was best friends with the 26-year-old mother of two, called Dieterle vicious, gruesome and nothing short of a monster. Early the morning of June 28, 2006, Dieterle broke into Michelle Dieterle's Blue Ash apartment, ordered her boyfriend to leave, and then attacked her with a knife, repeatedly stabbing her. As she lay dying, naked on the living room floor, Dieterle mutilated her genitals.
Her two daughters were visiting their grandmother Linda Hinkle and not home at the time. During his trial, Dieterle unsuccessfully argued the stabbing was self-defense. "Words seem trite in describing what follows when your child is murdered - stripped from your life," said Hinkle, who lives in Indiana.
"I can, however, give you some idea of what I have gone through." She said: It's telling your young granddaughters their mother is in heaven. It's seeing on television your daughter's body bag being carried from her apartment.
It's about waiting for information and for the coroner to release the body for a funeral. It's about not being able to save your daughter. It's about living, all the while wondering about how she died and if she suffered.
It's about endless days, weeks and months of heartache and grief. Finally, she said, "It's about seeing so many sad people, knowing that they too are mourning my daughter's loss. "When Ryan Dieterle murdered my daughter, he robbed my family of not only Michelle, but of our family life," Hinkle said.
"Her murder not only took away my daughter, but a mother, granddaughter, niece and a friend who was greatly loved by the people she touched." Dieterle apologized, although Hinkle later said she would "never forgive" the man who took her child. "I lost my wife due to my own action and I live with that every single day," Dieterle said.
"I am sorry is the only thing somebody can say. It's no consolation, I know. Michelle was a good person.
We had a good life. Mistakes were made." Prosecutors criticized Dieterle's use of the word "lost.
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