Orange County judge arrested for murdering his wife in Anaheim Hills

CBS News ^ | 8/4/23 | MATTHEW RODRIGUEZ, AMY MAETZOLD, MICHELE GILE

[CFW]

Homicide detectives have arrested Orange County Superior Court Jeffrey Ferguson, 72-year-old, for the murder of his wife in Anaheim Hills.

According to the Anaheim Police Department, officers were called around 8 p.m. for a reported shooting. When police arrived at the 8500 block of Canyon Vista Drive they found Sheryl Ferguson, age 65, with at least one gun shot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities said Ferguson was arrested and booked into the Anaheim Police Department's Detention Facility on a $1 million bail.

Detectives have not released any additional details because the investigation is ongoing.

[CFW]

Remember when judges were considered (or at least pretended to be) the pillars of the community?

[OSHA]

May have been a “mercy killing”.

[Ezekiel]

Remember when judges were considered (or at least pretended to be) the pillars of the community?

"Better than working for a living."

[SunkenCiv]

He's out of order, she's out of order, that whole courtship is out of order.

[Nuocmam]

Knowing CA law, he will probably be assigned as thr trial judge in this case.

[teeman8r]

if he only killed her somewhere else it would have been ok.

[vetvetdoug]

Surprise, surprise, surprise!...I can’t believe that a white supremacist Republican Trump supporter gun owner would do such a thing!

[DoughtyOne]

I thought they refused to carry out the death penalty...

[al baby]

The bitch should have just made him a samich

[SkyDancer]

His mercy perhaps?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I’m from Philadelphia. Judges were never a pillar of the community here.

[bgill]

Preachers long since toppled their pillars.

[Rockingham]

And why is this not a Florida story? Is California trying to horn in on Florida’s action?

[Libloather]

[CFW]

“And why is this not a Florida story?”

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I believe more “Florida” stories actually happen in California. But in California, it is considered normal so doesn’t make the news.

[Rockingham]

My late father, a proud, longtime Floridian habitually referred to California as the “land of fruits and nuts.”