Posted on 06/02/2005 9:47:46 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher
TRENTON, N.J. — The wife of a New Jersey man whose body was hacked up, put in three suitcases and dumped in the ocean last year was arrested Thursday morning in the death.
Melanie McGuire, 32, of Brick, will be charged Thursday afternoon with first-degree murder in the death of her husband, William T. McGuire, said John R. Hagerty, spokesman for the state Division of Criminal Justice.
McGuire was killed April 29, 2004, Hagerty said. His dismembered body was found in his own matching luggage in the Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Va.
Hagerty said authorities believe Melanie McGuire shot her husband in the chest and torso before the body was dissected and placed in suitcases that were dumped off the Virginia coast. He said additional arrests were anticipated, but refused to elaborate.
The couple was about to move into an expensive new home in Warren County when his wife said they had a fight and William McGuire, 39, stormed out of their Woodbridge apartment. She filed for divorce three weeks after McGuire's car was found abandoned in Atlantic City, claiming her husband was abusive and had a gambling problem.
The McGuires have two sons, ages 4 and 5.
"I am just so stunned," McGuire's sister, Nancy Taylor, said Thursday. "It doesn't bring him back, but at least justice will be served."
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Let's see how long it takes until she claims she was abused..... 10...9...8...
ditto that.
She was arrested this morning so by now she should be booked on Oprah and Dr. Phil.
Anybody seen pissant today?
Can anyone say "death penalty"?
Lucky for investigators she wasn't too bright.....
Murderers can be so dumb, she went to all the trouble of doing what she did but didn't put a sack of cement in the bags? And his own luggage to boot.Like some jail escapees. They are so smart figuring out how to escape but so dumb about getting recaptured.
Ping....
She will use the "battered spouses" defense and be aquitted.....but fear not..she'll get 10 years for illegally dumping in the ocean..
Yeegads....Woman has watched to many slasher movies!
Didn't she have some neighbors there in NJ that would have sufficient experience in this sort of thing that would be able to advise her so as to avoid such a rookie mistake.
At least she used the matching luggage. Kind of like a murdering Martha Stewart.
Even though she was being environmentaly friendly!
NO, New Jersey has the death penalty, technically. But, these people sit on death row forever. NJ has not used it since the early 70's I believe.
Note to self: Avoid crab dinners for awhile.
Seriously. Did she remember to remove the luggage tags with his name/address on it??
Doubt it!!!
That's probably how they knew it was him...
LOL!!!!!!!
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