Tom Clark, 50, of West Ninth Avenue is charged with homicide, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. Detectives found Jill Clark's decomposing body on July 6 in a wooded area near a gas utility road off Old Leechburg Road in Plum.
Jill Clark's co-workers at the Penn Hills Post Office reported her missing on July 2 when she failed to show up for work. Her whereabouts were unknown until Tom Clark told authorities that on July 1 he struck his wife two or three times in the head with a floor jack “in a fit of rage” over what he claimed was his wife's decade-long affair with a co-worker, according to a police criminal complaint.
Clark allegedly told police he wrapped his wife's remains in plastic and drove around the Oakmont and Plum area trying to find a place to dispose of the body. He allegedly later returned to the site and removed the plastic and tape and disposed of the items in various places in other communities.