Arizona man murders his wife who had a stroke because he was struggling to pay her medical costs
An Arizona man physically assaulted his wife with a wrench before strangling her to death because she had apparently become a "burden" to him after having a stoke.
According to a probable cause statement, dispatch received a phone call from 45-year-old Jonathan Conaway on Monday, reporting the death of his wife of 14 years, Janice.
The document also stated that a responding officer found Conaway sitting on a chair by the front door of the couple's residence in Phoenix just after 9 am on Monday. "I killed my wife, she is inside," Conaway told the officer in a "spontaneous statement", People reports.
Authorities said they found the 43-year-old victim and mother-of-two lying on the living room couch upon entering the home "with obvious trauma to her head, a wrench on the floor and a belt lying on the floor."