Naomi Judd’s husband, Larry Strickland, knew just how much his wife enjoyed meeting new people. On Sunday, Strickland spoke out for the first time since his wife’s death as part of CMT’s “Naomi Judd: A River of Time” memorial special.
30.04.2022 - 00:53 / perezhilton.com
A man sent horrifying messages to his apparent lover days before allegedly killing his pregnant wife in the basement of their home in Missouri.
So went the argument in court this week, at least, in the days leading up to Beau Rothwell‘s Thursday conviction for killing his pregnant wife, Jennifer Rothwell, in November of 2019. The case first drew national attention after Beau reported Jennifer missing on November 11 of that year — but investigators believed they found evidence of what really happened. They think the husband smashed her skull in the basement of their home after learning she was pregnant, then dumped her body in a rural area around 45 miles northwest of their home in the city of Creve Coeur.
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On Thursday, the 31-year-old man was officially convicted of his wife’s 2019 murder. According to The Independent, Rothwell was convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in Missouri. He was also found guilty of tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a corpse.
To make the guilty case, prosecutors revealed in court this week that cops discovered phone records between Beau and an unknown number — which they later determined to belong to a woman with whom he was having an affair. After seeing news reports that Jennifer had gone missing, the woman came forward and showed police text messages between herself and the accused murderer, according to KMOV. During the trial, prosecutors entered some of the messages into evidence, including one sent less than two weeks before his wife first went missing.
In the message, Rothwell reveals that Jennifer was pregnant, reportedly writing:
From there, Beau and his apparent
Naomi Judd’s husband, Larry Strickland, knew just how much his wife enjoyed meeting new people. On Sunday, Strickland spoke out for the first time since his wife’s death as part of CMT’s “Naomi Judd: A River of Time” memorial special.
Naomi Judd’s husband, Larry Strickland, knew just how much his wife enjoyed meeting new people. On Sunday, Strickland spoke out for the first time since his wife’s death as part of CMT's memorial special.“Namoi never met a stranger,” Larry said while on stage with Naomi's daughters, Ashley and Wynonna Judd. «Much to my displeasure, she would start a conversation with anyone who made eye contact with her, and we would end up standing 10, 20, 30 minutes on a sidewalk while she talked to a complete stranger about their passions and their dog.” Larry, who married Naomi in 1989, shared that his wife recently took a solo flight from Georgia to Nashville, noting that it was rare for her to fly alone.
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