They met when she was 16 and he was 19 and married 2 years later. They stayed married for 30 years. Both were deeply religious. The husband was a detective, a deacon at his church, and part of a missionary program with his church that helped people locally and internationally. She was a stay at home mother and active in the church.
Their marriage ended with a bullet in her head, her body on the floor of a room in her home – dead. The husband claimed suicide, said she’d been depressed and they’d had arguments about retirement plans and about selling a house that needed a lot of upkeep. She wanted to keep it. He wanted to sell it. He wanted to travel in retirement. She wanted to stay close to her family.
He had been secretly communicating with a woman he met through a church mission who lived far away. He claimed they had only kissed, but both had proclaimed their love for each other and were anxious to be together. The woman told her husband, who was unaware of her detective lover, that she wanted a divorce.
He had been googling ways to kill his wife and the forensics proved his wife’s death was not a suicide. You already know the rest of the story: life imprisonment for the husband who shot his wife of 30 years to death.
Bob Boyd