Nurse Murdered Husband, Then Dismembered Him With a Power Saw- “The Suitcase Killer”
Melanie McGuire is serving a life sentence for the murder of her husband, whose body parts were found scattered in three suitcases.
On the 28th of April 2004, nurse Melanie Lyn McGuire murdered her husband. But she didn’t just murder him. She dismembered his body, stuffed his parts into multiple suitcases, and tossed the suitcases into the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. It wasn’t long before her deadly secret began to wash up on shore.
She was sentenced on the 19th of July, 2007, and is serving time at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey. She maintains her innocence.
Melanie married her husband, William T. “Bill” McGuire, in 1999. The couple was married for five years, had two children together, and were living in an apartment in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. At the time of his death, Bill was working as a computer programmer and Melanie was a nurse at a local fertility clinic in Morristown.
Bill was never heard from again after 6:10 p.m. on April 28th. This was out of character for him as he was known to be very active on the phone and his Blackberry. He was in the midst of finalizing the purchase of a new…
