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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Ahhh!
So you know what to do with that iron thingie!
I am so impressed....
(I just use mine as a doorstop).
Bootcamp will do that to a guy.
I've risen from the dead!
Sounds like a suicide to me.
If only she had gotten those bags booked on one of our domestic airlines...the bags would have never been seen again...
Ow - divorce, applachian style.
Ow. bad. really bad.
I thought it was pretty good!
Actually, it was an excellent play on words.
GREAT comment!
Thank you - I will be here all week. LOL.
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