Man kills wife who wanted to cuddle after sex

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 12:44pm

AP Story: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050804/D8BP3ED00.html

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A man who got angry with his wife because she wanted to cuddle after sex when what he really wanted to do was watch sports on television was sentenced to death for killing her with a claw hammer.

Christopher Offord, 30, was sentenced Wednesday by Circuit Judge Dedee Costello, who said the brutality of the crime outweighed any mental problems Offord may have had.

"The defendant struck his wife approximately 70 individual blows after spending a happy interlude with her," the judge said. "Her desire to cuddle after sex does not justify the extremely violent, brutal response of the defendant."

Offord pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 2004 slaying of Dana Noser, 40, at his apartment.

He confessed to a bartender at a sports bar before his arrest. He told investigators that his wife had been nagging him to come back to bed.

Offord did not speak in court but said in a jailhouse interview in June: "I figured I killed her so I deserve to die."

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 12:45pm

Man, it's a beautiful world.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 12:49pm

This is the "one man, one woman" type of marriage our government wants to nurture and protect.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 12:52pm

She deserved it.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 12:54pm

She must have been a lousy lay.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 12:54pm

I think I dated him.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:05pm

It's terrible but I laughed anyway. This is more bizarre than "if you pop that gum one more time..."