An American woman has been convicted of murdering her husband. About ten years earlier, she published a crime thriller entitled How to Kill Your Husband. The reason for the crime is said to have been greed. The woman tried to prove her innocence to the last.
In a self-published thriller, an American described the murder of her own husband – the 71-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday (local time) for such a crime, as several media reports.
A court in the state of Oregon saw it as proven that the author shot her husband, a chef and teacher, at his workplace in a cooking school in early June 2018 in order to be able to collect his approximately $ 815,000 (about 780,000 euros) life insurance. The murder weapon was not found, according to the Oregon Live newspaper.
However, the judge at the Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland expressly did not allow her essay “How to murder your husband”, which was published in 2011 and thus years before the murder, as evidence, as the local broadcaster KGW TV did reported. The case made headlines across the country when it was revealed that the defendant had written this pamphlet and published it on the internet.
The woman’s attorneys argued during the Portland trial that someone else had killed the then 63-year-old husband in a robbery. According to the newspaper, his wife also had no motive at all.
Evidence of possession of a weapon identical to that used at the scene of the crime spoke against the woman. There were also video recordings showing how the woman drove to the cooking school and left again on the day of the crime at the approximate time of the crime. The media also reported that the woman was in debt. Your lawyers want to take action against the verdict.
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