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On April 28, 2004,

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a man lost his life to a

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woman who decided to skip the step of divorce

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and go straight to murder. So

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if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled,

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sit back and start your day with a

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morning cup of murder. Bill

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McGuire, born in September of 1964,

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met Melanie Lynn Slate when they

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worked at the same restaurant. And

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immediately they fell head

2:46

over heels for one another. Later

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joining the Navy and becoming a computer

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programmer, Melanie became a nurse at a

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fertility clinic. And eventually the pair

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married in 1999

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and later welcomed two beautiful

3:01

boys into their family. Raising

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the boys in their Woodbridge, New Jersey

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apartment, the couple had just recently

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purchased a much larger half a million

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dollar home in the area and

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planned on moving in sometime very

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soon. Closing on their

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dream home on April 28, 2004, the happy family never got

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the chance to move in. That's

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because on that very night, Melanie

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drugged her husband, shot him twice,

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and then dismembered his body so

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she could place them into three

3:35

matching suitcases. The

3:38

next day, the now single

3:41

mother, whose children were only

3:43

four and one when their

3:45

father was killed, began

3:48

trying to cover up her tracks by

3:50

stating that after a domestic

3:52

disagreement, Melanie finally

3:54

slapped her with an open palm, stuffed

3:56

a dryer sheet into her mouth, and stormed

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out of her mouth. of their apartment. While

4:02

she established an alibi on April

4:04

30th, Phil's 2002 Nissan

4:07

Maxima was found parked outside the

4:09

Flamingo Hotel in Atlantic City. And

4:12

just five days later, the first

4:14

of three suitcases containing his

4:16

remains floated to the surface, launching

4:19

a full-blown murder investigation. The

4:23

second suitcase was found on May

4:25

11th by a graduate student out

4:27

birdwatching on Fisherman's Island, this one

4:29

containing Bill's head and torso. And

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on May 16th, a boater

4:34

found the third and final suitcase floating

4:37

in the bay near the second island of

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the bridge and tunnel. On

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May 20th, Virginia Beach police released a

4:44

composite sketch of the man whose remains

4:46

were discovered on Fisherman's Island. And

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a woman named Susan Rice just

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so happened to see it and recognize

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the man as the longtime friend

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and Navy buddy of her husband's,

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William Bill McGuire. This

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is the same day that Melanie signed

5:03

the papers seeking a divorce from her

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39-year-old husband. While she officially

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filed the papers in Middlesex County on May

5:09

25th, investigators, unbeknownst

5:12

to her, had already named her

5:14

as the prime suspect in her

5:16

husband's murder. However, since

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the murder did not occur in Virginia,

5:21

officials had to turn the investigation over

5:23

to the New Jersey State Police, who,

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also seeing Melanie as their prime

5:28

suspect, found a handful of incriminating

5:30

evidence against her. Like

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the video of her parking Bill's car

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at the Flamingo Hotel, which

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when asked, she claimed was a

5:39

harmless prank she committed against the

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husband who by this point she

5:44

had already applied for a protection from abuse

5:46

order against. They

5:48

soon learned that on April

5:51

26, 2004, she purchased a .38 caliber

5:54

handgun from a store in Easton,

5:56

Pennsylvania, the murder weapon, as well as

5:59

some bulletproof guns. and that

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she began searching the internet around this time

6:03

for things like undetectable poisons

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and how to commit

6:08

a murder. They also

6:10

found out that she had been engaged

6:12

in a longtime affair with co-worker Bradley

6:14

Miller and she had

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used her EZ Pass tag on a toll

6:19

in Delaware just two days after

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the murder. So she claimed

6:23

this was for furniture shopping. Just

6:26

before they charged her with murder, Melanie

6:28

called EZ Pass and attempted to have

6:30

the charge removed from her account history.

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When that didn't work, an unidentified

6:35

man, believed to be her father,

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also made a similar call. The

6:40

plastic bags found with Bill's body were

6:42

forensically matched with the role in Melanie's

6:44

home. The luggage was matched to

6:46

the set pieces she still had in her basement

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and when they found out that he was drugged, they

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determined that she likely used medications from

6:53

her job at the fertility clinic. Melanie

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McGuire was officially arrested on June 2nd, 2005, just over

6:59

a year after her husband was killed. Charged

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with first-degree murder, Melanie made her

7:09

$750,000 bail and she pleaded not

7:11

guilty through her attorneys. Facing

7:14

additional charges on October 11th, 2005, Melanie

7:18

was indicted by a grand jury

7:20

on four more counts and

7:22

her bail was raised to $2.1 million. Again

7:27

making the bail and walking out of jail, on

7:29

October 26th, 2006, she

7:32

was charged with two counts of hindering

7:35

apprehension for allegedly writing letters to police

7:37

trying to get them off her trial.

7:40

She pleaded not guilty again and was released

7:43

after posting the $10,000 bail. Finally

7:46

brought to trial almost three years after

7:49

the murder, prosecutors claimed that

7:51

her motive was to finally make a

7:53

new life with her lover, Bradley Miller.

7:56

Insisting Her innocence, however, she claimed

7:59

her husband. The compulsive gambler who

8:01

owed a lot of people money.

8:03

And fate of her believe that he was

8:05

killed by the implants x City mob. On

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April twenty third, two thousand and

8:10

seven, Melanie Mcguire was found guilty

8:12

of first degree murder and was

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convicted of the lesser charges of

8:17

perjury desecration of human remains. An

8:19

possession of a weapon for unlawful

8:21

purposes. She. Was acquitted

8:24

however of the two counts of

8:26

hindering apprehension as well as tampering

8:28

with evidence and possession of Xanax

8:30

without a prescription. On July nineteenth,

8:32

she was sentenced to life in

8:35

prison for sixteen additional years. Said

8:37

the other charges. She. Will

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not be eligible for parole until she

8:41

has one hundred years old. Thank.

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You for joining me and my morning

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