Beauty Queen Gets Prison for Attacks

A beauty queen who set off on a 250-mile journey with a pistol, lighter fluid and a butcher knife was sentenced Wednesday to two years behind bars for trying to kill the parents of a romantic rival.

Tracy Lippard, 23, cried at her sentencing and apologized to the couple attacked in February.

“There’s no reason to fear me. I just want to go on with my life,” she told Circuit Judge Charles Lobban.

Lippard, from Newport News, Va., set out for the Lewisburg home of Rodney and Lynn Weikle the night after she crowned her successor as Miss Williamsburg, Va. The Weikles’ daughter, Melissa Weikle Scott, was pregnant by Lippard’s former boyfriend, Todd Scott, at the time of the attack.

Lippard was accused of pulling the pistol on Lynn Weikle and using a hammer to hit Rodney Weikle, a former Secret Service agent who put her in a headlock and disarmed her.

Lippard said she went to the Weikle home to confront her former boyfriend after he failed to show up at the pageant, where she had dedicated a song to him.

She said she became enraged after Rodney Weikle told her Scott and his daughter planned to marry. They did so in August.