“often called “Mr. Clean” by his neighbors due to his hobby of frequently washing his five cars. Very much a traditionalist, Paul Walter was always interested in what was going on down the street that he’d lived on for 11 years, and was concerned with how it looked. Paul’s days were usually spent outside, either sitting in a chair by the garage or on a bench swing on the front yard, watching the world roll by his red brick home.”

Probably had his nose in everybody’s business, the horny old control freak! Every neighborhood has one, usually a “Queen Bee” personality that thinks she runs things and likes to gossip and tries to run people out that she doesn’t approve of. A male version of that type, I picture spending 50 odd years with such a man and just shudder.

Highlights:

“Myrtle Walter was married to 74-year-old Paul Walter, the self-described patriarch of their Arkansas neighborhood.”

–Anyone “self-describing” as such is probably a bit of a bear to be around.

“often called “Mr. Clean” by his neighbors due to his hobby of frequently washing his five cars. Very much a traditionalist, Paul Walter was always interested in what was going on down the street that he’d lived on for 11 years, and was concerned with how it looked. Paul’s days were usually spent outside, either sitting in a chair by the garage or on a bench swing on the front yard, watching the world roll by his red brick home.”

–Sounds like a bit of a bear, again. I picture him out there making “traditionalist” comments about “youth these days” and so forth before bopping indoors at frequent intervals to demand geriatric nookie from Myrt. And keep in mind that as a “Traditionalist” he’s probably a bit selfish in the sack.

“Oh, they bickered a bit about a variety of things – like Myrtle Walter’s lack of interest in sex with her husband, or Paul’s insistence on Myrtle making dinner.”

–okay, well, sexist pig, we get it: “make me dinner and give me geriatric nookie on demand.”

“Neighbors recall Myrtle Walter often complaining bitterly at the local Adult Wellness Center about always having to make meals for her husband, who refused to do it himself.”

–okay, ditto to what I just said a second ago. Myrt should have just bought a bunch of TV dinners and pointed him in the direction of the microwave.

The article also states that everything seemed just fine to everyone around them–that they bickered a lot but it was assumed to be harmless. As a “Traditionalist” type of old lady, I guess she just sucked it up for a long time and then exploded. What a shame.

“At a quarter past two in the morning, Myrtle called her daughters, Laura Tucker and Debbie Walter, and told them that she had just shot Paul. Laura and Debbie said they’d be right over. Once they arrived, they saw what their mother had done and called the police, telling the dispatcher than their mother had been involved in an accident. When the dispatcher asked what kind of accident, the caller hung up.”

–as imp pointed out in her article, this sounds like a rather strange response if everyone was REALLY so sure all had been fine all along in this marriage. I take it they knew their father was a bit of a bear…

“Police arrived shortly after 2:35 in the morning, finding an extremely unrepentant Myrtle Marie Walter being comforted by her daughter Laura and an extremely dead Paul Walter lying on his bed.”

–ditto to what I just said.

“When questioned, Myrtle Walter freely admitted to what she had done, explaining that she was sorry, but she had to do it, that she had intended on killing her husband and now that it was done she was actually quite relieved that she’d gone ahead with it.”

–sounds like someone who didn’t feel like she had other options. Which is pitiful, of course, but considering her age and “traditionalist” marriage and the amount of time she had been sucking it up as a dutiful obedient wife, it’s not surprsing.

I served on the jury of a murder trial just north of Benton County (in southern Missouri) and we sent the lady packing off to prison for a whole two years. She also murdered her hubby as he slept. She had all sorts of defense claims of abuse, most of which we felt was likely true, but a divorce would have been so much neater. I agree, Myrtle better plead out, Imp, ’cause these Ozark Mountain juries are really tough on old ladies who murder their men. Think about it–two years!

Hey Modine, did the similar case involve anyone as elderly as this lady? Be interested to see if her daughter or anyone can corroborate her claims. In the end, though, I wouldn’t be suprised if Myrtle is suffering from senile dementia. That’s possible.

Your freak-out was unwarranted in this instance *shock* and you were just fightin’ with the wind. Now THAT is funny.

Prettyuglyish, if you wanna be rude then you can count on the fact that I won’t give a hot damn what you think is or isn’t unwarranted. Or what you think is funny or not funny. So you’re implying a great many of my postings are “unwarranted”? No one’s forcing you to read ‘em.*shock*

It should have been pretty obvious what I thought I was responding to. Now, I’m glad to know the DD is getting props. Sorry you couldn’t get that point across without being rude. Would have been easy to do that. But obviously that wasn’t your preference, and so: Right back at ya if that’s how you want it. *shock*

Cold blooded murder or the “he needed killing” defense?  In Benton County, I’m gonna bet she may just pull this one off on a plea deal and avoid the death penalty. You put a 5′2″, 115 pound grandmother on the stand in northwest Arkansas and ask her to talk about being abused by her larger, stronger husband, and she might just walk.  My prediction? She’ll plea it out and do some time rather than go to trial.

I served on the jury of a murder trial just north of Benton County (in southern Missouri) and we sent the lady packing off to prison for a whole two years. She also murdered her hubby as he slept. She had all sorts of defense claims of abuse, most of which we felt was likely true, but a divorce would have been so much neater. I agree, Myrtle better plead out, Imp, ’cause these Ozark Mountain juries are really tough on old ladies who murder their men. Think about it–two years!

(and before anyone freaks out over my response to Random Poster, eh, you want to post some OT inflammatory item, you get what you get!)

Sugarglider, take a chill pill. That’s Morbid or Imp imbedding a link showing us that another website/forum is giving props to Dreamin’ Demon.

Your freak-out was unwarranted in this instance *shock* and you were just fightin’ with the wind. Now THAT is funny.

(and before anyone freaks out over my response to Random Poster, eh, you want to post some OT inflammatory item, you get what you get!)

I doubt very much Myrtle is going to be spending the rest of her life behind bars. Will be interested to see the update.

No, not necessarily. You’d hope so, but very often it’s not the case. And she comes from an entirely different generation.

I agree she comes from a time no one discussed or called for help. I have a feeling there were past abuse issues just by the way the daughter acted and handled things.
Frankly being a survivor of abuse and wishing I would have had the nerve to do the same thing to the asshole who beat and left me for dead and in the end disabled.
I can really relate to this woman and pray she does please or get off with the lowest charge.

By the way that one from above with the sheets would have scared the hell out of me No way would I have been able to sit there while he was sleeping and do that for 4 hours Yikes.

And back to the subject at hand…

“One difference between a LIBERAL and a pickpocket is that if you demand your money back from a pickpocket, she will not question your motives!” Quote: [...]

WTF? No idea how your posting is relevant to this thread. But I guess you didn’t notice that Bill CLinton left the country with a huge surplus? And that GWB left us with trillions in debt to frickin CHINA? Are your eyes and ears stapled shut or something? But you probably watch Fox “news” and think that the democrats are the tax and spenders, right? I guess you don’t know that GWB’s gov’t is the biggest spender of all. And I guess you don’t know that GWB is the biggest taxer of all. The only people GWB doesn’t tax are the rich. It’s called trickle-down-economics–and it doesn’t work. As far as taxes go, paying them happens to be patriotic. You want roads built? You want healthcare for poor children? You want some battered wives services for chicks like Myrtle? Suck it up, then. Pay your taxes. If you don’t like it, move out of this country. And, by the way, if you want the least amount of your money taken away as possible, vote for Obama. You won’t be hurting at tax time unless you make more than 250K. But keep in mind that any hurting that DOES happen, it’s because your current administration squandered the Clinton surplus and put us trillions in debt to China while oil companies and companies like Halliburton made millllllions (I guess you ALSO didn’t notice GWB is an oil man, or that Cheney used to be the CEO of Halliburton?). I suggest you unstaple your ears and eyes and start doing your homework instead of making meaningless jokes on a forum that has nothing to do with what you’re talking about. Just my two cents. And you can have those two cents for free. And I won’t even question your motive. I might question your intelligence, but that’s a different matter.

Id like to at least see some prior police reports of ANYTHING…if you are going thru something that is bad enough to KILL over,than im pretty damn sure you should MAYBE raise a red flag to SOMEONE,SOMEHOW!? …

No, not necessarily. You’d hope so, but very often it’s not the case. And she comes from an entirely different generation.