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71-Year-old Alzheimer's Patient Convicted of Killing her Husband in 1985
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First Posted: Oct 26, 2013 11:03 AM EDT
Carolyn Krizan-Wilson, 71, from Houston, an Alzheimer's and dementia patient, has been convicted of killing her husband Roy McCaleb 28 years ago, in 1985. She was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment with a 10 year probation.
Her sentence will commence from Dec. 26, 2013.
"She is willingly admitting that she murdered him and that's something we've known all these years," Pam Nalley, McCaleb's daughter, told The Houston Chronicle in an interview. "I think that means more to me than anything," Nalley added.
The 71-year-old had narrated a cooked-up story of being raped by a barefoot man who had sneaked into her house. She told the cops that the mystery man tied her up and raped her twice that night and he then shot her husband using her gun, while he was asleep and escaped.
She also told the police that she confronted the man again when he was on his way back after he shot her husband and she fired at him twice with the gun, which he had dropped.
"They had only been married like a year and nine months," Nalley told ABC 13.
"Come to find out he was her seventh husband. She did get arrested for bigamy after my daddy died because she was still married to somebody," she added.
The wife was finally arrested in 2008 and sentenced for her crime; her sentence was reinstated in 2012. Her age and health condition were factors in her sentence and a cause of concern for the prosecutors and defense attorneys.
"Her age and her medical condition, I think all sides realized this was probably the right and just decision to make for all parties," defense attorney Stafford James stated in an ABC 13 report.
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First Posted: Oct 26, 2013 11:03 AM EDT
Carolyn Krizan-Wilson, 71, from Houston, an Alzheimer's and dementia patient, has been convicted of killing her husband Roy McCaleb 28 years ago, in 1985. She was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment with a 10 year probation.
Her sentence will commence from Dec. 26, 2013.
"She is willingly admitting that she murdered him and that's something we've known all these years," Pam Nalley, McCaleb's daughter, told The Houston Chronicle in an interview. "I think that means more to me than anything," Nalley added.
The 71-year-old had narrated a cooked-up story of being raped by a barefoot man who had sneaked into her house. She told the cops that the mystery man tied her up and raped her twice that night and he then shot her husband using her gun, while he was asleep and escaped.
She also told the police that she confronted the man again when he was on his way back after he shot her husband and she fired at him twice with the gun, which he had dropped.
"They had only been married like a year and nine months," Nalley told ABC 13.
"Come to find out he was her seventh husband. She did get arrested for bigamy after my daddy died because she was still married to somebody," she added.
The wife was finally arrested in 2008 and sentenced for her crime; her sentence was reinstated in 2012. Her age and health condition were factors in her sentence and a cause of concern for the prosecutors and defense attorneys.
"Her age and her medical condition, I think all sides realized this was probably the right and just decision to make for all parties," defense attorney Stafford James stated in an ABC 13 report.
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