Webbarbara sheehan and hedda nussbaum. Their stories became a window into the frightening realities of domestic violence, as the media questioned how the. Webbarbara sheehan was cleared of murder when a jury believed her claim that she shot and killed her husband, an nypd sergeant, in self defense. But she is now. Webbarbara sheehan's battered wife defense had saved her from a conviction for killing her abusive police sergeant husband, but she'll have to surrender and begin. Webafter suffering abuse for nearly two decades at the hands of her husband, a retired sergeant with the nypd, she tried to escape her home. But it all ended in a hail.
