In June 2005, Melanie McGuire was arrested and charged with Bill’s murder (per NBC News). At her televised trial, prosecutors explained that she had drugged Bill, shot him, and dismembered him before packing him into the suitcases and dumping them into the Chesapeake Bay (via Heavy). People explains that she did this all in an effort to maintain her relationship with Mills. In the end, My Central Jersey reports that McGuire was found guilty in 2007 of murdering Bill and defiling his remains.
Per ABC News, she received a life sentence and is now incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in New Jersey. In recent years, McGuire has publicly stated that she did not murder Bill. In an interview with 20/20, the then-47-year-old argued that she was “absolutely” innocent and that although her relationship with her husband wasn’t perfect, she never wanted him dead (per My Central Jersey).
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Additionally, People writes that McGuire believes that whoever murdered Bill is still at large. She is convinced that he was murdered due to his debts from his alleged gambling addiction. McGuire insists that Bill asked her to buy a gun for this reason. She went on to say that ”After all these years, I still feel hurt. I still feel bothered. Like, how could somebody think that I did that?” (via ABC News).
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