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South Dakota Pastor Is Convicted of Killing His Wife
by Alexa Smith
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister in South Dakota
has been sentenced to life in prison for the May murder of his wife of 30
years.
The Rev. William Guthrie - formerly the pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Wolsey, S.D., and of the Bonilla Presbyterian Church
nearby - is now incarcerated in the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls,
approximately 150 miles from the two churches that he served.
The seven-woman, three-man jury deliberated for five hours on Jan. 21
before handing down the guilty verdict that ended the 11-day trial - the
first murder trial in Beadle County, S.D., in six years. Guthrie was
sentenced by Circuit Judge Eugene Martin on Jan. 24.
According to "The Plainsman," the daily newspaper in Huron, S.D., the
judge asked Guthrie at his sentencing, "Mr. Guthrie, do you have anything to
say?" Guthrie replied, "No, your honor."
Guthrie had pled not guilty to the murder charge.
Guthrie's attorney Phil Parent of Madison, S.D., had no comment on
whether or not his client intends to appeal. The Beadle County State's
Attorney Michael Moore, who prosecuted the case, is expecting notice of an
appeal within the next 25 days. Moore's office did not seek the death
penalty.
"I feel that 12 people in the community were fair and impartial. They
heard the facts and they made a decision and I am satisfied with the verdict
they made. The best thing is that it gives some finality to this ... for
the family, for the church[es] and for the community," said Moore, who told
reporters last August that Guthrie was the prime suspect in the drowning
death of his wife, Sharon.
Sharon Guthrie, 54, drowned in the bathtub of her Wolsey home May 14. An
autopsy revealed the contents of 10-20 capsules of Temazepan in her body, a
sleeping pill that was prescribed for her husband.
The defense, according to "The Plainsman," suggested that she committed
suicide because of a combination of medical and financial stresses.
Prosecutors argued, however, that Guthrie killed his wife because he wanted
to resume a relationship with a former female parishioner in Nebraska.
The prosecutor's office presented evidence from a computer expert that
Guthrie's wife's alleged suicide note - found in a book months after her May
demise - was apparently typed onto the hard drive of a computer three
months after her death. Further, a computer in one of Guthrie's parishes
had been used to research household and bathtub accidents, according to
Moore.
Moore also said that there were unusual accidents in the Guthrie home
just before Sharon Guthrie's death: a lamp falling into her bath (when her
husband was in the room), a string found across the basement steps and she
apparently had woken up groggy at least once.
"Both congregations came daily to the trial to support the family,"
said the Rev. William Pfautz, the interim pastor who served Guthrie's two
churches after his arrest, who added that the preponderence of evidence
convinced many parishioners of their pastor's guilt before the actual
verdict was handed down.
"But both congregations," he said, "are in good health and have largely
worked through their hurt and are on track with their fall and winter
program."
A new pastor is beginning in those congregations this week.
Guthrie resigned his pastorates months ago so that the lives of the
churches were not further disrupted.
A committee is being formed within the Presbytery of South Dakota to
conduct an ecclesiastical investigation into Guthrie's conduct. Its
members will be announced at the Feb. 25 presbytery meeting.
The Rev. Bill Livingston, the presbytery's interim executive, told the
Presbyterian News Service: "We are are deeply saddened by the guilty
verdict issued to Rev. Guthrie. We pray God's comfort for his family as
they live through these most difficult times."
The Guthries have three grown daughters. | b*****n
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罪有应得
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【在 C*******r 的大作中提到】
: 昨晚正好在Discovery频道看到这个案子：
: South Dakota Pastor Is Convicted of Killing His Wife
: by Alexa Smith
: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister in South Dakota
: has been sentenced to life in prison for the May murder of his wife of 30
: years.
: The Rev. William Guthrie - formerly the pastor of the First
: Presbyterian Church in Wolsey, S.D., and of the Bonilla Presbyterian Church
: nearby - is now incarcerated in the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls,
: approximately 150 miles from the two churches that he served.
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: 犯了罪, 便坐监
: 罪有应得
: 有甚么你不满意的
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