Desperate Excuses II
Teddy Claire Akin, 28, told sheriff’s investigators in Ocala, Fla., that he had killed a hitchhiker and buried him. He turned over the victim’s wallet as evidence, and police searched unsuccessfully for the body. The story came unraveled when the supposed victim turned up alive. Then “he started telling different versions of what happened,” a police spokesman said. Police say Akin was having trouble with his wife, and hoped that the thought of being married to a murderer would be too much to bear and she’d leave him. He has been charged with making a false report, plus the theft of the wallet, which he had found. (Ocala Star-Banner) ...His sentence: 10 more years — with his wife.
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