🔴 Murder of a man in New Jersey on Christmas night
🔴 Woman shoots and kills her husband
🔴 Declaration of minor charge before the court
A 53-year-old Mays Landing woman admitted to shooting and killing her husband on Christmas night 2022.
Marylue Wigglesworth pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in connection with the murder of David Wigglesworth, 57, in his Mays Landing home.
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Marylue Wigglesworth is accused of killing her husband, David Wigglesworth (ACPO, boakesfuneralhome.com)
Marylue Wigglesworth (left), David Wigglesworth (right) (ACPO, boakesfuneralhome.com)
Following Tuesday’s action in Atlantic County Superior Court, Wigglesworth would face a recommended sentence of six years in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 20.
He would have to serve just over five years (or 85% of the sentence) before being eligible for parole.
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Mays Landing New Jersey (Google Maps)
Mays Landing New Jersey (Google Maps)
Christmas Eve shooting at Mays Landing
The Hamilton Township Police Department responded to Wigglesworth’s home on Somers Point Road on December 25, 2022, around 10:19 p.m.
Officers found David Wigglesworth suffering from a single gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Marylue Wigglesworth had said in the days after her arrest that she had acted in self-defense.
In February 2023, she was charged with murder.
In investigating the case, police documented significant bruising on Marylue Wigglesworth’s body, indicating she was the victim of an assault, prosecutors said.
Read more: New Jersey wife charged with murdering David Wigglesworth
Marylue Wigglesworth (ACPO)
Marylue Wigglesworth (ACPO)
In Atlantic County Superior Court, Marylue Wigglesworth said that before the 2022 shooting, she and her husband had argued.
She said he physically assaulted her and threatened her with a firearm he kept in his room.
Immediately after that, Wigglesworth said she shot her husband with the gun.
Sentencing was set for August 20.
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