Surprising Marriage Ends in Bizarre Ohio Killing (Knew His Wife Since She Was a Young Boy)

AP ^ | 3/20/09 | M.R. KROPKO

[nickcarraway]

James M. Mason knew his wife since she was born a boy. The janitor and former military man was a boarder in the child's home and was treated like family.

Many were surprised when he married Chris nearly three years ago, not just because he knew she underwent sex-change surgery three years before, temporarily calling herself Christine Newton-John after the pop singer with the same last name. He was in his 70s, she in her 30s. He was mild-mannered; she had a domineering personality.

Then, last summer, there was another surprise: Chris Mason was accused of exercising her frail husband to death so she could inherit his retirement benefits, in an attack caught on surveillance video.

[MaxMax]

She was a young boy? I thought it was a typo.

[WayneS]

No such luck.

[Polybius]

She was a young boy? I thought it was a typo.

No it was a cut. Oh!

[darkangel82]

This is fubar.

[Tijeras_Slim]

And they say all the good ones are taken.

[MaxMax]

It killed the husband with It's mother watching from her perch, commonly known as a wheelchair.
Who needs enemies.

[Tax-chick]

A reasonable assumption would be that he molested “her” when “she” was a boy.

[SunkenCiv]

Many were surprised when he married Chris nearly three years ago, not just because he knew she underwent sex-change surgery three years before, temporarily calling herself Christine Newton-John after the pop singer with the same last name. He was in his 70s, she in her 30s... Then, last summer, there was another surprise: Chris Mason was accused of exercising her frail husband to death so she could inherit his retirement benefits, in an attack caught on surveillance video.

So, what's the problem?

[Enchante]

Just another boring, typical day in the liberal utopia of Obamanation.......

[nickcarraway]

Was she playing Let's Get Physical when she exercised him?

[wiggen]

why would that be reasonable? you read the story? seems he was a passive gentle person and ‘she’ was the exact opposite.

[Luke21]

He’ll say he’s sorry and head back down to McDonalds.

[PGR88]

Boys will be, ummm, girls.

[usmcobra]

GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!!!!!!

[nickcarraway]

Interesting point.

[maggief]

[nickcarraway]

I’m a little scared that you would even look, after what you knew “she” was.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I’m stunned - who would have ever expected someone who had a sex change, then married a man 40 years older who was thought of as an uncle to have any personality disorders?

[usmcobra]

Call it Morbid curiosity, I just had to know this thing was every bit as ugly as the crime it committed.