Laura Zuckerman
Reuters
10:09 p.m. CDT, May 8, 2014
(Reuters) – An elderly Missouri woman accused of killing her husband four decades ago and burying his body in an abandoned Wyoming gold mine was found guilty on Thursday of second-degree murder, a court official said.
Alice Uden, 75, of Chadwick, Missouri, faces 20 years in prison for the shooting death in Wyoming in 1974 or 1975 of Ronald Holtz, her husband of several months.
Prosecutors, who had charged Uden with first-degree murder, claimed she shot Holtz in the back of the head with a rifle while he slept.
Defense attorneys argued that Uden shot and killed Holtz after he flew into a rage and threatened to harm her toddler daughter, court documents show.