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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 17 > Jury convicts man of murder in wife’s death

Jury convicts man of murder in wife’s death


July 17, 2009

PORTLAND — A man who claimed he fatally shot his wife out of compassion because she suffered from an incurable disease has been convicted of murder.

John Roberts told police he shot his wife, Virginia, as she slept on Feb. 2, 2008, because she suffered from amyotrophic lateral....

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