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Mary Carol Winkler (born December 10, 1973) is an American woman who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the city of Selmer, Tennessee.
19 kwi 2024 · During Mary's sentencing, Matthew Winkler’s mother, Diane, denied Mary’s claims that her son was abusive and confronted her about the abuse allegations.
16 gru 2022 · Her attorney contended Mary “lived a life where she walked on eggshells,” portraying her as a victim of alleged domestic abuse. At one point in her trial, Mary produced the wig and the high-platform shoes that Matthew allegedly forced her to wear while coercing her to perform sexual acts she did not want to do.
17 kwi 2024 · On April 17, 2007, a Tennessee jury found the mom of three guilty of voluntary manslaughter. “We were very stressed during that time because we didn’t know how to work it out,” a juror told ...
18 kwi 2007 · “I shot him once,” Mary Winkler said. Defense attorneys say that Mary Winkler snapped that morning, afteryears of physical and emotional abuse, and was trying to intimidate herhusband of nine years by pointing the gun at him when it accidentallyfired.
19 kwi 2024 · During the 2007 trial, Winkler discussed a platform shoe and wig her defense team presented in court, testifying that her husband wanted her to wear the items during sex.
After a three-week trial, the jury deliberated for eight hours on March 22 before announcing the verdict to a hushed Selmer courtroom: Mary Winkler was judged guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
