Posted on 04/18/2007 10:36:54 AM PDT by Froufrou
A preacher's wife accused of murdering her husband testified Wednesday that she doesn't remember picking up the shotgun or pointing it at her husband, but she said she did not pull the trigger. She heard a "boom" as the shotgun fired, she said.
"Something went off," Mary Winkler said, crying on the witness stand.
She said she just wanted to talk to her husband, Matthew, when she went into their bedroom, but she was terrified. Her husband was physically and sexually abusive, she said. That day, she said, she just wanted to stop him from being so mean.
Her depiction of her marriage contrasts radically from the description by the prosecution, whose witnesses described Matthew Winkler as a good father and husband.
Matthew Winkler, 31, was found fatally shot in the parsonage where the family lived in March 2006. A day later, his wife was arrested on the Alabama coast 340 miles away, driving the family minivan with her three young daughters inside.
Earlier Wednesday, Mary Winkler testified her husband punched and kicked her, forced her to have sex she considered unnatural and refused to grant her a divorce.
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No idea. It’s still no excuse for blowing her husband away.
I thought it was the Nigerian email scam she got caught up in??
True. Here’s the link. They say she fell victim to the ‘Nigerian scam’ and they’re account was overdrawn by $5K:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266110,00.html
Millee beat me to the punch! She doesn’t look that naive...
I agree, but neither does she sound any too bright. Of course, that could be courtesy of the lawyers working with her as I'm not certain I've heard her say anything except bits and pieces of her taped testimony played back.
Holy cow,
if she fell for the Nigerian scam then she’s too stupid to live.
That’s backwards. She killed her husband, not the other way around.
I understand that a lack of confidantes is an "occupational hazard" for pastor's wives.
I also know that clergy are under tremendous pressure, and not all of it is human; I think that are under attack from spiritual sources.
But I wish this woman had just gotten in the car and fled home to Momma, instead of killing her husband.
I was being sarcastic. ;)
(1) It is an established fact that she kited five checks at five different banks in one day - the day before she murdered her husband.
(2) The prosecution alleges, and says it can prove, that she deposited fraudulent checks mailed to her from overseas locations - including Nigeria -amounting to $17,500 in several different bank accounts.
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I thought both her & the husband got conned on that scam.
It looks like she got involved in the con and told her husband that the money she was transferring to Nigeria was being transferred to a separate bank account at a different bank to take advantage of a rate, or some similar excuse.
She received fraudulent checks from Nigeria that were intended to "pay her back" and to keep her forwarding real money to the scam artists in anticipation of more checks to come.
It seems that the banks recognized the fraud and demanded that she rectify the situation.
On March 21 - the day before she murdered her husband - she wrote five separate checks to five separate banks and cashed them all in person on one day, "kiting" them or piggybacking them on one another from bank to bank all morning.
It seems that on March 22 her scheme unraveled - either her husband got wind of the problems by being contacted by the banks or he took a closer look at their accounts himself proactively.
So she waited until her husband was in bed and shot him in the back with a shotgun. When she realized that he was still alive but too wounded to move, she unplugged the telephone in the bedroom from the wall, packed up the car and took off - leaving him there to bleed to death without assistance over a period of several hours.
Wow...I have not really followed the case. Just heard a snip about the scam she was involved in. Thanks for the info ...~Pandora~
She just looks suspicious. — Only my opinion of course.
Thanks for the info. Doug.
I don’t like her looks, either. And what’s the deal about ‘not remembering’ picking up the gun, but then she remembers that she did NOT shoot it? I’m not buying it. If she never shot before, she’d be really aware of shooting it!
It’s only naive, chivalrous men who might buy her “abuse” story.
Every woman who is not on welfare - and not from a 3rd world country - knows that they don’t have to take s—t from any husband in our society.
I’ve been thinking: how does someone refuse divorce? All she had to do was hook up with a relative or a friend, preferably out of town, and see a lawyer. Let him notify the man, or have the sheriff serve him with papers.
Meanwhile, the lawyer establishes separate maintenance for her and her girls until the judge finalizes it. He can fight and prolong it or he can go along. The longer he prolongs it, the longer he pays the separate maintenance.
This is not a very smart person. There’s a good chance the prosecution will fry her.
Thank you. I have heard of the case.
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