Detention Officer Murders Wife Kathleen Hamlet-"Oh & He Is Sorry"
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   Click the play button on the video window to the right to see the storyJeffrey Hamlet, a Maricopa County Detention Officer, admitted to police he killed his wife Wednesday night and that he wanted to take his own life. According to a police report, Hamlet's son, Sean, called police after going to his parents' home late Wednesday after an uncle expressed concern for the couple. There he found his mother dead and his father on a bed, bleeding from the head. When officers arrived at the home near 40th Street and Shea Boulevard they found Jeffrey Hamlet, 55, in the kitchen. Hamlet reached into a kitchen drawer for a knife and began trying to stab himself, police say. Officers tased him to keep him from injuring himself, then took him into custody. Police found Hamlet’s wife, Katherine, 52, in a bedroom, dead and wrapped in a blanket. After telling officers he had ingested rat poison and bleach, Hamlet was taken to a local hospital. While officers were checking the house, they came across a note 'stating something along the lines of what the son saw and continuing with I'm going to hell and you are going to heaven', according to the police report. They also found a blue steel bar that Hamlet had wrapped in padding and cotton socks to strike his wife in the head. The report says, Hamlet told officers he 'continued to hit his wife until he knew she was dead'. Police say Hamlet 'admitted that he intentionally killed his wife first, because he stated that she would not be able to take care of herself if he died and she did not'. He was then taken to Madison Street Jail where he was booked on charges of first-degree murder. To make comments go to: http://www.murphymilanojournal.blogspot.com Source: Deborah Stocks ABC15.com for updates. |
