Betty Rowland

Photo: An older woman with fair skin and graying strawberry-blonde hair, wearing glasses and a lacy white blouse.Name: Betty Rowland.
Died: October 31, 2014.
Age at death: 86.
Cause of death: Stabbed.
Location: Columbia, Missouri, USA.
Disability: Stroke; used a wheelchair.

Details:
Betty’s husband killed her because he “didn’t want them to be a burden on the family”.

Case status:
Donald M. Rowland (Husband); pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, sentenced to 5 years of probation and a 7-year suspended sentence.

Source:
88-year-old man gets suspended prison sentence, probation for wife’s death
88-year-old man receives probation for stabbing his wife