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Missing from Vermont.
Edgar Whitney got the maximum Tuesday, nearly two years after strangling his wife and dumping her body in Johnson. With family and friends watching in the courtroom, Whitney was sentenced to serve 23 years to life in prison for the murder of Jodie Whitney.
Whitney, 35, had pleaded guilty to two felony counts: second-degree murder and unauthorized removal of a body...
Whitney initially pleaded innocent, then admitted in March that he strangled his wife and hid her body in a nearby marsh, while their 3-year-old daughter slept. In bed, he struck Jodie on the head with his hands and then strangled her. He wrapped her body in a sheet, put it in the back of a Jeep and drove to abandoned talc mine near their home in Johnson. After hiding the body in marshland, Whitney told police, he left the Jeep, hid the keys, bought some beer and ice cream, and walked home.