Posted on 08/16/2007 8:06:41 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Balcony homicide blamed on medical bills
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A Kansas City, Mo., man charged with killing his ailing wife by throwing her from a balcony told police he couldn't afford her monthly medical bills.
Stanley Reimer, 51, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder after his wife's body was found on the pavement outside the couple's fourth-floor apartment the night before, The Kansas City Star reported Thursday.
Criste Reimer, 47, weighed 75 pounds as a result of treatment for uterine cancer and a neurological disorder, the report said. Her medical bills ranged from $700 to $800 a week, and she had no health insurance, Probate Court records said.
The records said during police questioning, Reimer said he walked his wife to the balcony and kissed her.
"She didn’t jump," he told police but didn’t say any more about how she ended up on the ground.
Detectives said one of his wife's caregivers told them the woman was physically unable to climb over the balcony ledge, the newspaper said.
Hillarycare.
A terrible situation to be in I’m sure. I think it would be hard to comment on this unless you were in the man’s shoes.
yeah, hard to condemn killing someone before you understand why he did it. /sarc
What a guy! (/sarcasm)
I'll comment: murdering people is wrong, even if it will save you cash.
I'm willing to comment and say that throwing your spouse to their death is a bad thing.
There’s probably a LOT more to this story....the wife was down to 75lbs.....and unable to move herself....in other words....dying....
It may be hard to condemn someone who is legitimately trying to end the suffering of a loved one, but throwing them off a balcony? Surely he could have come up with a better solution than this!
It is a terrible situation, and I grieve that this man felt like this was his best option. Truth is, throwing his wife off a fourth story balcony was not a solution. I don’t have to be in his shoes to know that such an action is wrong.
I wonder if Michael Schiavo will visit him in prison.
“Hillarycare.”
The question is, what would Hillarycare have done for this woman?
How would a patient in a similar condition be treated in one of the socialized-medicine utopias we hear so much about?
so insteaed of paying doctor bills, he can pay lawyer bills.
the reason for murder is moot. murder is murder. dropping someone off a balcony isn’t an act of mercy.
I guess Dr. Kevorkian was unavailable.
He couldn’t take the constant vomiting so he gave her the old heave ho.
But he was still strong enough to throw her off the balcony.
Cordially,
Having a wife is a personal choice. Who are we to judge the hardship of keeping this woman in the world would have had on this man’s future. Keep your laws off of his marriage. His wife would probably have lived a life of poverty anyway.
/s
Prayers for his wife and him.
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