While working on their marriage in a therapy session, a husband admits to his wife that he is in love with another woman, the wife takes off, drives over 500 miles to the home of her husband’s mistress and shoots her three times, killing the “evil woman” – and she now faces murder charges as reported by the Star Telegram and other sources.
Obtained by the Star Telegram on Sunday, January 15, was Missouri’s probable-cause affidavit that read that the woman, of Granbury, killed the mistress in Missouri, to protect her husband and others from harm.
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murder occurred on the afternoon of Friday, January 13. The affidavit also read that S.O.G. drove to Gladestone, Mo., to kill I.P. after learning that her husband, R.O.G. would not leave I.P. and that he wanted a divorce.
Gladestone is an approximate 600 miles from Granbury.
By Sunday evening S.O.G. was being held in the Wichita, Kansas, Sedgwick County Jail. At press time she was awaiting her extradition to Missouri, her bail set at $1 million. S.O.G. would be charged with murder and armed criminal action.
While traveling on Interstate 35, almost at Newton, Kan., S.O.G. was pulled over by a state trooper, arrested and admitted to having two unloaded handguns in her vehicle, a Buick Lucerne.
Gladestone city spokesman Richard King said, “It's pretty rare; it's been three years since the last homicide. Neighbors were concerned but not at all in a state of panic."
The affidavit read: “(R.O.G.) told authorities that he and his wife had a meeting with a therapist in Great Bend, Kan., on Friday. In the meeting, (R.O.G.) told his wife about (I.P.) and that he was not going to leave her. (S.O.G.) left the meeting. In telephone conversations after the meeting, the couple discussed a divorce. In one last call before the slaying, (S.O.G.) called her husband and told him that ‘he was not the first person (I.P.) would hurt and would not be the last.’”
Hours later – the time it would take to drive the 600-mile distance – A.P., I.P.’s mother, reported that her daughter answered her doorbell that afternoon and let the woman inside – S.O.G. was later identified as the woman, per the affidavit.
Once S.O.G. gained entrance, while standing approximately four feet from I.P., S.O.G. pulled out a gun and proceeded to shoot I.P. three times.
R.O.G., after leaving therapy, went to his home to take a nap. According to the affidavit, sometime later his daughter awoke him to report that ‘Mom” had called to say she had just shot and killed I.P.
R.O.G. called I.P.’s home and I.P.’s mother answered and confirmed that her daughter was dead. After that phone call R.O.G. called the Gladestone police and then drove over to the police department.
During the drive to the police station R.O.G. allegedly had several phone conversations with S.O.G., while she was driving back through Kansas. During their calls she allegedly said that she had shot I.P.
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