GUILTY Australia - Edwina Boyle, 30, found murdered, Dandenong, VIC, 6 Oct 1983

[Taximom]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/09/australia.murder.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
(Drew? Oh wait, this was in Australia.)

MELBOURNE, Australia
Boyle told the court this week he found his 30-year-old wife dead in bed with two bullets in her head and one of his neckties around her throat.
Boyle had told his two daughters their mother ran off with a truck driver, but a son-in-law found the remains in the 170-liter (44-gallon) drum while tidying the yard in October 2006. (more at link)

 

[MeoW333]

Wow, that's crazy.. i wonder what the his children think now of the lie he told them. Right in the yard, dang.. i guess he figured no one would check the obvious place back then.

 

[OkieGranny]

From March 2008:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7301511.stm

Frederick Boyle, 58, originally from Peterson-super-Ely, Vale of Glamorgan, was convicted last month of the 1983 murder of his wife Edwina...

A judge at Victoria Supreme Court in Melbourne gave Boyle a 21-year sentence with no chance of parole for 17 years.