A 71-year-old Alzheimer's disease patient from Houston has been sentenced to jail for a murder committed 28 years ago.
Carolyn Krizan-Wilson pleaded guilty for slaying her husband, Roy McCaleb, in 1985. Her sentence of six months in prison will begin this year December 26. This will be followed by additional 10 years of probation.
"She is willingly admitting that she murdered him and that's something we've known all these years," McCaleb's daughter, Pam Nalley, told The Houston Chronicle. "I think that means more to me than anything."
Kirzan-Wilson shot McCaleb on September 20, 1985 at their home. She then told the police that she was carjacked and raped by an unidentified barefoot man 10 days before she killed McCaleb.
According to her, the man raped her a second time during the night of the murder. She said the rapist got into their room and raped Krizan-Wilson then grabbed a gun kept underneath her pillow and shot her husband.
"They had only been married like a year and nine months," Nalley told ABC 13. "Come to find out he was her seventh husband. She did get arrested for bigamy after my daddy died because she was still married to somebody."
Kirzan-Wilson was charged with murder in 2008, but the judge dismissed the indictment. Later in 2012, the case was reviewed. Her attorney showed concern over her health and age. "Her age and her medical condition, I think all sides realized this was probably the right and just decision to make for all parties," defense attorney Stafford James told ABC 13.
