Latest Husband and Wife Murders

Updated Tuesday Jan 12, 2021 11:35 PM

• Jan 12, 2021 New details released on what happened the day Alex Cox died
  Arizona wife Zulema Pastene worried about husband Alex Cox. She called home: stepson found husband gasping for air. Husband died in hospital. Police think Alex Cox helped his sister Laurie Vallow Daybell, murder her children before he died.
• Jan 7, 2021 Attorney alleges murder suspect's father killed wife
  A defense attorney for a Kalispell man accused of murdering his wife last month in front of their children alleges there is a more likely suspect in the ...…
• Jan 1, 2021 Tulane Study Of Maternal Homicide Gets First Federal Money For Gun Violence Research In 24 ...
  “Thankfully only a very small percentage of our clients end up being killed, but of those ..…
• Dec 31, 2020 In wife's 2016 killing, Baton Rouge man convicted of second-degree murder; life sentence awaits
  In 2016, Louisiana husband Donald Wayne Germany II suddenly realized that wife / nurse Nichole Michelle Jones never called 911 after his 2014 suicide attempt. He said, "You were going to let me die." Wife told husband to pack bags and leave. Husband strangled wife. He did not call 911 to save wife.
• Dec 30, 2020 Susan Wright, who killed her husband in 2003, released from prison
  She had said she was abused, which is why she killed her husband She tied him to their bed and stabbed him nearly 200 times, then buried his body ...…
• Dec 28, 2020 Waukesha man whose mental illness prompted him to fatally stab family members has received a lifetime commitment
  Wisconsin sister-in-law said husband Adam Roth was obsessed with covid pandemic. Husband suddenly stabbed wife Dominique Roth during a meal at home. After family told him to stop, he stabbed them. Wife and one sister-in-law died. Husband said, "it was coming and I had to save them."
• Dec 24, 2020 Michigan woman who says she had her husband killed to escape abuse seeks clemency
  By 1989, Timothy Szenay had threatened to kill his wife and daughter, according to the commutation request…
• Dec 21, 2020 'Vile monster' who murdered wife after being told to pay £10000 divorce bill jailed
  Reader was described as a “controlling husband” who placed a tracker on Price's car after their separation and told her: “If you leave me, I'll kill you.”.…
• Dec 18, 2020 Okfuskee County Man Pleads Guilty To Killing His Wife
  An Okfuskee County man has admitted that he killed his wife 41-year-old Tommy Gouge pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in federal court ...…
• Dec 17, 2020 Man arrested in Minnesota charged with murder in death of his wife in Kent
  Jones' husband, Paul Dervin III, 38, was charged Friday with second-degree murder domestic violence, accused of killing Jones as she was preparing to ...…
• Dec 16, 2020 Todt appears in court; trial date could be set in February
  Anthony Todt, the Colchester physical therapist accused of killing his wife, three children and family dog in Florida, appeared in court Wednesday in ...…
• Dec 14, 2020 Shock in Italy over the acquittal of a man who killed his wife out of jealousy
  “This femicide has not been recognized as such and a jealous husband can murder his wife without being sentenced to life imprisonment,” laments the ...…
• Dec 11, 2020 Matthew Jansen Sentenced To 40 Years In Prison For Murdering Wife Who Was Trying To Leave ...
  In February 2019, Matthew Jansen called 911 and told authorities he killed his wife, Mary Jo…
• Dec 10, 2020 York County judge refuses to throw out murder charges in case in which no body was found
  Virginia Hayden, 69, of South Middletown Township, Cumberland County, is accused of killing her husband, Thomas, who mysteriously disappeared ...…
• Dec 10, 2020 Murder conviction COA vacated over attorney juror's misconduct reinstated
  Indiana Supreme Court justices affirmed Wednesday that a Vanderburgh County man who murdered his wife was not harmed when an attorney juror ...…
• Dec 10, 2020 Man Cleared of Killing Wife As Court Rules He Was in 'Delirium of Jealousy'
  An Italian court has acquitted an 80-year-old man who claimed he was mentally incapacitated because of a "delirium of jealousy" when he murdered ...…
• Dec 4, 2020 Woman accused of burying husband under concrete slab bonds out of jail
  A woman accused of killing her husband has bonded out of the Lake .. assumed his identity over text and Facebook messages after he was killed.…
• Dec 3, 2020 Joe Bryan on quest for innocence finding in wife's 1985 shooting death
  Attorneys for Joe Bryan have not abandoned their quest to clear the former Clifton High School principal's name in the 1985 murder of his wife, Mickey.…
• Nov 20, 2020 HKU professor killed his wife over money, court told
  Prosecutors have suggested that a University of Hong Kong professor on trial for allegedly killing his wife two years ago murdered her over a dispute ...…
• Nov 19, 2020 Charges: Man killed by wife and son; they claimed he left in 2013 and never returned
  His wife, Connie L Herbst, now 62 years old and living in New Prague, informed police in July 2013 that her husband had come home, packed a bag ...…