BOONE, Iowa (AP) - A central Iowa woman accused of fatally stabbing a man in the home they shared has taken a plea deal.
Boone County District Court records say 59-year-old Mary Myers pleaded guilty Thursday to willful injury and voluntary manslaughter. Her sentencing is scheduled for May 18. Prosecutors dropped a charge of first-degree murder in exchange for Myers’ pleas.
Boone police say Myers went to the Boone police station on Jan. 16 and said she’d stabbed 65-year-old Joe Wirth during a fight.
Officers went to the home and found Wirth dead with several stab wounds. Investigators think he was killed two days earlier.
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