Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 4/Wife Slayer Drives All Night with Body in Auto
Wife Slayer Drives All Night with Body in Auto
AUTHORITIES at Charleston, Ill., were aroused by startling story of Bruce Weiman, who recently gave himself up to the sheriff and stated that he had shot his wife, intending to commit suicide immediately afterward, but had lost his nerve and had driven all night with her body in the car.
The corpse was found in the back of the automobile, covered with a robe.
He told the coroner's jury that he found his wife with an the other man at a hotel in Decatur, and induced her to return to Charleston with him, planning to kill her and then commit suicide.
He said that he shot her as she sat beside him, but that after seeing her body slide to the floor, he was unable to bring himself to the point of suicide. He stated that he then drove all night with the corpse in the car, vainly trying to get up enough nerve to kill himself, but that, when morning came, he decided to surrender to authorities and let the law take its course.
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