There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

For police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

For some, divorce isn't enough.

On April 28, 2004, a man lost his life to a woman who decided to skip the step of

divorce and go straight to murder. So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back

and start your day with a morning cup of murder. Bill McGuire, born in September of 1964, met Melanie Lynn Slate

when they worked at the same restaurant, and immediately, they fell head over heels for one another.

Later joining the Navy and becoming a computer programmer, Melanie became a nurse at a fertility

clinic, and eventually, the pair

married in 1999 and later welcomed two beautiful boys into their family.

Raising the boys in their Woodbridge, New Jersey apartment, the couple had just recently

purchased a much larger half a million dollar home in the area and planned

on moving in sometime very soon. Closing on their dream home on April 28, 2004, the happy family

never got the chance to move in. That's because on that very night, Melanie drugged her husband, shot him twice, and then dismembered his body so she could place them into three matching suitcases.

Luggage that was eventually found in the Chesapeake Bay.

The following day, the now single mother whose children were only four and one when their father

was killed, began trying to cover up her tracks by stating that, after a domestic disagreement,

Bill suddenly slapped her with an open palm, stuffed a dryer sheet into her mouth,

and stormed out of their apartment. While she established an alibi on April 30th,

Bill's 2002 Nissan Maxima was found parked outside the Flamingo Hotel in Atlantic City.

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