Monday, March 27, 2006

THE DAY BEFORE THE WINKLER MURDER

Newsweek has information on Mary Winkler's behavior the day before she shot her husband to death:
Mary Winkler's behavior was odd last Tuesday when she debuted as a substitute teacher in Selmer, Tenn. Normally quiet and introverted, she talked incessantly on her cell phone, pacing about. "Several teachers complained about it," says assistant principal Pam Killingsworth. Winkler, 32, also got annoyed with her daughter Patricia—whose third-grade class she taught that afternoon—for acting up. Something was clearly the matter. The next day, Winkler's husband, Matthew, 31—minister of the local Fourth Street Church of Christ—didn't show up at the Wednesday-evening service. When church elder Drew Eason and his son Will went to the parsonage, they found Matthew facedown in a back room, blood-soaked from a fatal gunshot wound.

I saw her attorney on television this morning who guardedly spoke of her reacting to "a dangerous situation" and fleeing because she felt "no one would believe her."

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks for the info. I wonder who she was talking to on the cell phone. I'm sure that John Mehr, the TBI agent, already has those records in hand.

BTW, I am a member of the COC. I just found out tonight from nancy Grace's how that I may be a member of a cult! Go figure! :::sarcasm:::