Last month, a jury found Denise Williams guilty on three counts, including first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, in the death of her husband, Jerry Michael “Mike” Williams. Last Wednesday, she was sentenced to life in prison without parole...
During the trial, jurors heard testimony that the 48-year-old woman conspired to kill her husband with help from his best friend, Brian Winchester, whom she married five years later.
According to testimony, Mike Williams packed up his boat on Dec. 16, 2000, to go duck hunting on Florida’s Lake Seminole. The 31-year-old father had planned to spend a few hours out on the water and then return home for a weekend anniversary trip with his wife.
But he never made it back — beginning a 17-year mystery that was only recently solved. (The case was featured in a December 2018 episode of People Magazine Investigates.)
When Mike first disappeared, his father-in-law searched for him and found his abandoned boat. His vehicle was still on the shore. Police speculated that he had fallen into the water and been eaten by alligators.
Denise and Winchester, who married in 2005, had Mike declared dead after he vanished and collected on three life insurance policies worth more than $1.75 million.
Denise and Winchester split in 2016. In 2017, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping his ex-wife at gunpoint and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. A day later, authorities announced that they had found Mike’s remains.
Winchester confessed to shooting Mike in the head and burying him in a remote area. He claimed that he and Denise conspired together in the murder so that they could be together.
Winchester was a key witness for the prosecution during the trial. He was granted immunity in Mike’s death.
During the trial, Winchester told jurors that he had originally intended to drown Mike but panicked as a struggle ensued. He said that he pulled out his gun and shot his friend.
Assistant State Attorney Jon Fuchs told told the jurors that Denise was as culpable in Mike’s death as Winchester.
Denise’s defense, however, insisted that the state had no case. “There’s no tangible evidence or physical evidence to connect Denise Williams to this crime,” attorney Philip Padovano told jurors, according to the Associated Press. “No confession, no admission, nothing.”
from people.com
*So they both had problems and he Kidnapped her at gun point and he was sentenced to 20 years and he figured it was time to confess so that she would go in too...So he gets out after 20 years but she is to die in Jail....Chai,this life!!!
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ReplyDeleteStella he will get out because he confessed. Called plea bargaining
ReplyDeleteHe wasn't charged with the murder, just the kidnapping. That is the bargain he got
DeleteThis is why people should not cross that thin line. Of all the Men in this world, why choose your spouses’ best friend?? But just an acquaintance but best friend. They are both evil and do not have a conscience. They were foolish to get divorced because you see how he tried to kidnapp his ex and having sat in Jail for months, he all of a sudden wanted out of jail. The only choice he had was call up the detectives and tell them where his friend’s remains where. Just like that, the secret comes out because dude sang like a canary and in the process, got himself a plea deal. Now, the woman will spend a looong time in Prison. That mansion they used the insurance money to buy will be occupied by dude and a new girlfriend or wife. This is just complete stupidity on their path. She could have just divorced her husband and lived her life. Nobody is worth my time in Jail. No one!!
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Immunity from mike's murder, the kidnapping sentence of 20yrs still stand. Murder, kidnap blackmail gone sour
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