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f0revery0urs · #1 02-11-2009, 05:29 PM

Well, I am almost finished reading "To Have and to Kill" by John Glatt. This book is all about the murder of Bill McGuire. Melanie McGuire not only shot her husband and killed him, but cut him into pieces so he could fit into 3 suitcases. They lived in New Jersey. She took the suitcases to Virginia and threw them over the bridge into the water to later be discovered.

She killed her own husband because she was having an affair with her married boss. She claimed that they got into an arguement and he walked out on her. She was telling several people he became abusive and started gambling too much. She set everything up and tried extremely hard to cover her own tracks.

What do you guys think of this story?

Personally, I can't imagine how messed up a person has to be to kill someone, and then cut their body into pieces and dispose of it like garbage. I haven't quite finished the book yet, but I do know that she is eligiable for parol when she is 101 years old. Crazyness.

wind149 · #2 02-11-2009, 08:43 PM

IMO She should have gotten a death sentence but I guess the men on the jury could not being themselves to give her the DP as she is a pretty woman but I will take 101 years, she is just like Lynn Turner, the evil woman who murdered her cop husband with glycol and then did the same to her cop boyfriend all for the insurance money and she almost got away with killing the husband Glenn, if she had not been greedy and decided to kill her cop boyfriend Randy, she might have gotten away with murder and she too is doing LWPOP and she should have gotten the DP too. Both of these *****es killed for greed, they had loving spouses, not wife beaters and they are exactly where they need to be locked up for life. This woman is clearly evil, she had everything, a beautiful home most of us would love to own, children and a loving husband. Not one soul ever saw her with bruises or anything to indicate there was DV involved she wanted everything and the married man too and the callus way she killed Bill and then cut him up shows me that she is pure evil and I hope she rots in that cell. A man who loved her and gave her everything and she murders him, shades of Pam Smart too!!

f0revery0urs · #3 02-12-2009, 04:41 PM

Part of what I don't understand about these woman is, why kill them? Melanie never even tried to talk to her husband about a divorce, or anything. Her husband didn't know she was having an affair for 3 years, I doubt he would've found out any time soon!

If you are married and unhappy, why not just get a divorce. You know, like normal people?! These people are crazy. Melanie didn't even try to play it off like she was a grieving widow.

People like Melanie who kill their husband to get out of a marriage instead of approaching them for divorce are just cowards. Sick cowards.

f0revery0urs · #4 02-13-2009, 04:34 PM

I completely agree, Toskala. After finishing the book, I was quite surprised that they put it on her. Even though it was kinda obvious she was the murderer, there was no hard evidence proving it. Because they had no evidence, it was hard to pin in on her. That was a great book, and I finished it last night and wow. She went into court the day the jury would announce their conclusion with her head held high thinking she was set, thinking she got away with it. When it came down to it, every major charge she had against her ( murder, dismemberment, and so on) she was found guilty of!

Justice was served!

GilmoreGirl · #5 04-28-2009, 01:19 PM

[quote=f0revery0urs;9164071]Part of what I don't understand about these woman is, why kill them? QUOTE]

Apparently Melanie McGuire's husband, an American airforce pilot, had just taken out a $500,000 life insurance policy when she had him shot. So to me to seems like greed, plus her affair made her do it. She didn't actually pull the trigger herself, she got her lover to do it while she was inside her office, after luring her husband there. She did chop him up though, which is the sickening thing. I suppose the explanation is that she was a nurse, and therefore used to seeing blood and death on a regular basis.

As in many cases, greed overcame her and her and the lover were supposedly planning to move away together and live on the life insurance money.

GilmoreGirl · #6 04-28-2009, 09:01 PM

Sorry, got the wrong case!

No on this one I agree with you, there seemed to be no reason for her to do this. The awful way of disposing the body makes me shudder, how could anybody do such a thing to someone they claimed to once love?