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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...

A Brick Township woman is free on $2 million bail as she awaits trial, accused of murdering her husband and disposing of his dismembered body parts in three suitcases. Melanie McGuire, 32, posted bail Saturday and was released from the Middlesex County Jail. She is charged with killing her husband, William T. McGuire. William McGuire, 39, was killed between April 28 and May 5, 2004, according to his wife's indictment. Melanie McGuire shot her husband in their Woodbridge apartment, dismembered the body and placed the remains in black plastic trash bags inside three suitcases, according to court documents. The suitcases...