Posted on 06/08/2007 2:30:09 PM PDT by midwesteastcoastconnection
SELMER, Tenn. — A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but she may end up serving only 60 days in a mental hospital.
Mary Winkler must serve 210 days, or about seven months, of her sentence before she can be released on probation, but she gets credit for the five months she has already spent in jail, Judge Weber McCraw said.
That leaves only two months, and McCraw said up to 60 days of the sentence could be served in a facility where she could receive mental health treatment. That means Winkler may not serve any significant time in prison.
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Thats right! She said her ugly came out. I had forgotten about that.
She was fixing to get caught. I honestly believe she killed him to keep him from finding out what she had been doing. Thats even worse.
Even after her confession that she was not abused and the fact she changed her story 3 times? Once she told details about how she did it, how she went to the closet and got the gun, exactly where she stood and how she felt and even her thoughts. She said she had to steady herself by holding on to the footboard of the bed because she thought the gun was going to kick. She said it wasn't as loud as she thought it was going to be. Once she said she got the gun to go talk to him and make him listen. Then at the trial, she doesn't remember anything. And she lied to those precious children about it. The judge said the children weren't involved but the little girl heard the gun and got up and saw her daddy on the floor bleeding. They asked her what he was doing and she said, "he was moaning." You still believe her even after the overwhelming evidence of the check kiting and the lengthes she went to, to keep him from finding out?
Maybe I wasn’t clear about what I thought Mary was telling the truth about. I do believe her about the abuse.
I don’t because I was abused myself. Its fairly easy to spot. I know someone like her who will go to any lengths to keep people from finding out about their deviousness.
They handed down a conviction on voluntary manslaughter, not murder.
Too bad Paris couldn’t have had Winkler’s lawyers.
Let’s see 60 days for cold-blooded murder, 45 days for driving while intoxicated
No, but the jury filled with Oprah watchers failed to convict a murderer on the first degree charges that she deserved. Not a single allegation of abuse was corroborated and I'm still wondering what he was doing while sleeping to make her want to shoot him in the back.
This stupid, evil, selfish woman should be spending the rest of her life in a cell with some Big Bertha to show her what abuse REALLY is.
No he wasn’t. He appears to have been a good & decent man. Nothing his murderer said could be backed up with actual evidence.
Set her free? She should have gotten the death penalty.
Yes, she should have gotten the death penalty. Letting her get away with this not only sets a murderer free, it also lets other would be murderers know they too can get away with it.
BINGO!
It's too bad the jury was too brain dead to see this.
I saw a segment about this on 60 Minutes the other night. So many of the facts weren’t even mentioned. They totally disregarded the testimony of the 9 year old daughter, who said she had never seen her dad be violent to her mother or the children. If the child had said he was violent, I bet they would have given her credibility.
On 60 Minutes the other night, the jurors blamed the judge for her light sentence. One of the jurors said she felt betrayed by the judge. She hadn’t wanted Mary to get off that light. Even the people in town who were backing her are disgusted with the slap on the wrist. Now she wants her kids back and I’m sure she will get them. As far as refusing to expunge her record, no big deal. Thats basically all the punishment she gets.
A good lawyer can get around that.
Her lawyer had a piece in our local newspaper the other day about how the case came together and from what her own lawyer said, thats almost exactly how it happened! He said he didn’t call it coaching; he just called it good strategy.
You are almost right, but he hadn’t found about the check kiting scheme, yet. The bank told Mary the day before she killed him that they wanted her and Matthew at the bank to discuss this matter. So he would have found out that day if she hadn’t killed him first. Which makes her even more of a cold blooded murder. He died innocent with the question “why, Mary” on his lips. Shes a disgusting excuse for a human being! God help those children if she gets them back.
According to WMC- TV5, she’s due to be released on August 14th.
I was talking with some people last night who were close to the case, and my opinion has changed. Apparantly it was well known that he was a tyrant and a bully. Someone on this thread or another had stated what a good person he was, but I’m now hearing a completely different story, one that didn’t make it into the news.
If it was so well known as you say, then how could it be that his oldest daughter said that she never saw her father abuse her mother or them?
It’s easy to say anything about a man especially after he’s dead & unable to defend himself.
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