Prosecutors: Man Accused of Killing His Wife Years After He Said She Died in a Car Crash
A man once regarded as a widower is now being accused of murdering his wide.
According to the Washington Post, Donnie Rudd, now 76, has been accused of murdering his wife, who he previously said died in a car crash in 1973.
On September 14, 1973, Donnie Rudd and his then-wife Noreen Kumeta Rudd were in a vehicle that had plowed off into a field next to an empty stretch of road in Barrington Hills, Illinois. Rudd told police that they had been forced off the road by a passing vehicle and that Noreen was thrown from their Pinto, smashing her head on a rock. They were only married for 27 days at the time of the crash. But now, prosecutors are saying he used the crash the cover up her coldblooded murder.
The prosecutors say that Rudd didn’t marry Noreen because he loved her. They say...