Gambling Addict Sentenced to Life in Prison for Wife’s New Hampshire Murder

William Argie is sledding to expend the relaxation of his life inwards prison house after he was convicted this hebdomad inward New Hampshire down for murdering his married woman and faking her suicide. The 49-year-old nation resident was found guilty of first-degree polish off and misrepresentation of malefactor grounds in connector with the 2019 criminal offense in Londonderry.

On Tuesday, Charles Watson-Wentworth County Superior Margaret Court Judge Marguerite Wageling missed the condemn on Tuesday.

However, non before scolding Argie on his actions.

Your selfish, narcissistic, and mayhap addicted-fueled conduct led to the devastation of your family,” Wageling told Argie, Law & Crime, a sound publication, reported.

Relatives of the victim, Maureen Argie, pleaded with the justice before sentencing.

Apprehended at Foxwoods

William Argie was located at Connecticut’s Foxwoods Casino on Apr 5 following the murder, according to WMUR, a local TV station. He unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, tidings reports revealed.

Two months later, he was indicted past a grand jury and later arrested. He entered a non shamefaced plea inward the strangling and/or smothering slip against him. He claimed his married woman committed suicide.

But jurors eventually found him shamefaced of the charges. The slaying took localise patch the couple’s children, a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old, were asleep inwards the house.

Beyond the living sentence, he was also given one and a half to three years inwards prison house for the falsifying evidence charge, WMUR said. The visitation was repeatedly delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Faced Debt, Bankruptcy

Prosecutors lay claim Argie was inwards debt and tightlipped to failure because of his gambling addiction, according to published reports. His house had tried to deal an intervention with him with the hope of addressing his behavior, news media reported.

Maureen Argie was attempting to divorcement him at the clip of the homicide. She was also seeking custody of the children and mat up threatened by her husband.

William Argie’s buster gambler, Jesse James Timbas, claimed that Argie tried to employ him to wipe out Maureen Argie. It was to come out same a suicide, he said. In return, Timbas would invite section of her $400,000 lifespan insurance insurance under the alleged scheme. Timbas refused to take component in the plot.

At 1 point inward the trial, William Argie asked the adjudicate to declare the grammatical case a mistrial. But he chose not to go off his defence force attorneys. The jurist refused his request.

Argie will non live eligible for word of honor under the sentence. At one time, he worked as a physician’s assistant.