Melanie McQuire, RN, is convicted of murdering her husband, and butchering his corpse in order to fit the pieces into three matching suitcases that she carried to Cheasapeake Bay where she dumped them. She weighs one-hundred and twelve pounds.
Melanie admitted having an affair with her employer, a doctor at a fertility clinic. The affair begin during the ninth month of her pregnancy. She purchased a gun only two days before her husband was declared missing. No blood or DNA was discovered at her home after the detectives searched for it on three separate occasions, going so far as to unscrew lightbulbs, and to disaasemble plumbing fixtures where blood may have been disposed.
Melanie's husband was a gambler and was well known in Atlantic City where he was comped on arrival. The defense tried to lay the blame on a mob collector who went too far. According to casino managers he had been doing well at their tables during the year before his murder. There was no reason, the prosecution asserted, for him to be murdered by the mob.


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