Thursday, June 02, 2005

The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot has this story about the arrest of a woman in New Jersey:
Melanie McGuire, 32, of Brick, was to be charged Thursday afternoon with first-degree murder in the killing of William T. McGuire, said John R. Hagerty, spokesman for the state Division of Criminal Justice.
That's pretty unremarkable. Spouses are accused of murder all the time. So why did a newspaper several hundred miles away report the arrest? Let's just say there's a local connection:
McGuire was killed April 29, 2004, Hagerty said. His dismembered body was found in his own matching luggage in several suitcases found in May 2004 near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, on the shore of Fishermen's Island on Virginia's Eastern Shore and in waters near Norfolk.
I remember when the first suitcase turned up and we were informed it contained a, shall we say, incomplete corpse. We weren't to keen on swimming much until they were able to assemble the complete body.

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