She looks like she may not be guilty, but from this picture I cannot see her thighs.
Posted on 07/19/2007 12:12:53 PM PDT by 60Gunner
Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A former nurse was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for killing her husband, hacking up his body and stuffing his remains into designer suitcases that later washed ashore along Chesapeake Bay.
Melanie McGuire, 34, was convicted of murder and desecrating human remains in the 2004 death of William McGuire, 39.
His body was found inside the couple's Kenneth Cole luggage in May 2004 near Norfolk, Va., nearly 300 miles from the couple's Woodbridge, N.J., apartment.
"The depravity of this murder simply shocks the conscience of this court," Judge Frederick DeVesa said Thursday in sentencing McGuire.
During the trial, prosecutors argued that McGuire organized her husband's murder using her expertise as a nurse to drug him, shoot him and cut him up. They said she wanted to begin a new life with her lover _ her boss at a fertility clinic.
The defense said McGuire had been abused by her husband and wanted to leave him. Her lawyers argued that the petite nurse was physically incapable of killing her 6-foot-3, 210-pound husband and that it would have been impossible to commit such a bloody crime without leaving behind physical evidence.
Stephen Turano said his client planned to appeal. "She maintains her innocence," he said.
McGuire, who cried Thursday as he sentence was read, had said in a television interview before the jury returned its verdict that she did not kill her husband.
"No matter how I felt about my husband, I could not have done this to my sons," she said.
Dang....I must have missed that class. *chuckle*
Just getting rid of some emotional baggage.
“Why the new suitcases, Dear? Are we going on a trip?”......
I’m glad the jury did not buy her nonsense about the mob and her concocted anonymous “confession” letter, also glad she got life but I’m also pretty sure she had help getting rid of the body and cleaing the scene.
Another victory for the Culture of Death!
To be sure, no profession is immune from the element of human depravity, since professionals are human beings. But certain professions carry with them much higher expectations of fidelity, benefecence and nonmalfeasance (i.e., nurses, doctors, counselors, social workers, special advocates, clergy, firefighters, policemen, etc.). So when someone in these professions commits a crime as heinous as this, the public also becomes the victim.
But Americans trust nurses more than they trust any other profession. In view of the high degree of trust that the public places in nurses, I personally think that any nurse who has been convicted by a jury of his or her peers for committing premeditated murder- particularly one so vile as this example- should automatically be sentenced to death.
Ping!
If you're going to dump a body, do it with style!
Explaine that please?
Not I! I got to really see how nurses treat their patients when my father was ill. There are a few very good nurses. The others do the absolute minimum and have no compassion at all. I believe many people in the medical profession witness so much death that eventually they become desensitized to it.
I bet the remark about the Culture of Death had to do with the reference made about the “fertility” clinic.
I think it would be a mistake to assume a “fertility” clinic is a euphemism for abortion mill.
I know when you see a “women’s clinic” you might safely assume fetal murders are occuring, but I would hope no such actions would ever occur at a fertility clinic.
Precisely the knee jerk reaction I wanted him/her to self examine.
Fertility clinic = people going through considerable expense and difficulty to create new life.
Nurses...”like a box a chocolates.....ya never know whatchya gonna git”
double standard continues.
if this was a husband he would have been executed by now.
(death by media)
Possibilities:
1. Her lover was saying: "What ever happened to your husband?"
2. He was in on it.
I don't tolerate shoddy nursing practice. It really ticks me off when a nurse fails to do domething as simple as monitoring a patient's urine output and vital signs, and when it is pointed out shrugs and says, "Oh, well. He's still alive. I'm out of here." I have registered formal complaints against nurses for that.
Now I say this to my colleagues in the profession: I don't care how long you have been a nurse. If you are burned out, GET OUT. That patient in your care is a human being who deserves to be treated with the highest dignity, mercy, compassion and respect. That's somebody's mother, father, sister, daughter, son. Your patient is SOMEBODY to SOMEBODY.
More to the point, that patient is somebody to GOD.
If you as a nurse cannot, for whatever reason, perform your duties with the same degree of diligence that you would expect from anyone taking care of your own loved one, then you need to quit nursing. Today. Before you kill someone.
That is very good advice - for any profession.
She looks like she may not be guilty, but from this picture I cannot see her thighs.
Preach it, brother! I’ve only been a nurse for a year now (operating room), but there are some real burned-out b*tches here. They need to get out. I have met MORE nurses who are professional, experienced, and are great advocates for their patients. Thankfully, these are the nurses who are willing to share their knowlege with the newbies!!
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