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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Husband Sentenced in Military Wife's Shooting Death | Crime Alert 05.19.25

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Husband sentenced for shooting his military wife dead at her own birthday party. Odd pet tips police of to his owner's illegal activities. 

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0:00.0

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.3

Crime Alert, I'm A.C. Grace. Breaking crime news now. Ashley Henning, a sergeant first class in the military,

0:10.7

celebrates her 37th birthday with family and friends in her home, Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

0:15.8

After guests leave, she and her husband, Jordan Henning, also military, argue over cleaning up and putting away

0:22.1

the slip and slide. Nest security video from their home shows Jordan pulling a gun on Ashley,

0:28.4

while she pleads for him to, quote, be a man and begs him to put the gun down. He shoots her

0:34.0

four times, and then the gun jams. Not satisfied with only four hits, Henning runs to

0:40.4

another room to clear the jam and reload. Henning shoots his wife wants more than spits on her body.

0:47.1

The couple's three children were home at the time of the shooting, one of whom called 911.

0:52.3

During his arrest, Henning apologized for killing his wife and in court

0:56.0

claimed he broke after years of abuse from Ashley. Ashley's family denies Heading's claim

1:01.8

and says his tearful apology in court was made only to manipulate the jury. Tyler,

1:07.5

Riley and Carter, I'm sorry I took Mom away from you.

1:12.4

I'm sorry for the hurt and the trauma that I've caused you, and I'm sorry for failing you.

1:18.1

I love and miss you all so much, and I know nothing I say will take away the pain of her loss.

1:24.6

Hubert, I love you, and I'm sorry I took you away from us all.

1:28.3

Jordan Henning, age 34, guilty, a first-degree manslaughter, now sentenced to 20 years behind bars.

1:36.3

Victoria Vidal, 55, gets pulled over on a traffic violation.

1:41.3

Turns out she's got an active warrant and suspended license.

1:49.7

The officer detains her in his squad car, and when he returns to her car, he finds sitting in the driver's seat a raccoon named Chewy holding a glass meth pipe. With such an obvious clue,

1:58.2

officer searched the vehicle, finding a large amount of meth, crack, and three

2:01.8

other pipes. Vidal adds felony possession, three counts possessing paraphernalia, and driving

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