Man kisses ailing wife, hurls her from balcony

[romantico]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 11:37am

I wonder if Dr. Gupta has any comments on this? Perhaps he can tell Mr. Reimer that the healthcare system is not broken.


Man kisses ailing wife, hurls her from balcony
Missouri man charged with murder of his wife

Stanley Reimer kissed wife, tossed her from fourth floor balcony

He told police he could no longer afford her medical bills

Criste Reimer was blind, had cancer and weighed 75 pounds


KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A man threw his seriously ill wife four stories to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her medical care, prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree murder.

According to court documents filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, Stanley Reimer walked his wife to the balcony of their apartment and kissed her before throwing her over.

The body of Criste Reimer, 47, was found Tuesday night outside the apartment building, near the upscale Country Club Plaza shopping district.

Stanley Reimer, 51, was charged Wednesday. He remained jailed on $250,000 bond and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

In the probable cause statement filed with the charges, police said Reimer was desperate because he could not pay the bills for his wife's treatment for neurological problems and uterine cancer.

more at:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/16/wife.killed.ap/index.html

Updated On: 8/16/07 at 11:37 AM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 11:44am

How romantic!

[robbiej]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 11:50am

Aren't there less...messy...ways to commit a mercy killing?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 11:52am

Not to mention less painful.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 11:53am

"According to the court records, she had no health insurance to pay for medical bills that ranged from $700 to $800 per week."

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 1:56pm

Oh my GAWD!

I'm with robbie and SM2. He couldn't have smothered her with a pillow? Or, hey, maybe not have killed her?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:32pm

Seems to me, this man's mental condition matched his wife's physical condition.

Her last moments don't bear thinking about...

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:39pm

Ambien and Jack Daniels. Seriously.

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:41pm

This has all the makings of a Law & Order 'ripped from the headlines' episode.

[romantico]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:14pm

This is why I admire Dr.Jack Kevorkian.If he was allowed to do what he did this woman and her husband would be at peace.Although, I do agree I think there were alot more options on the way he could have done this.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:19pm

Wait... so behind Curtain #1 we have a crazy-in-the-head murder and guaranteed jail time.

Behind Curtain #2, we have bankruptcy, humiliation and Medicaid.

I don't get choosing Curtain #1, even in the heat of the moment. Did that really sound "better" to him at the time?

Who exactly was he thinking of in that illogical situation?

[tazber]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:35pm

you forgot curtain #3 B12, "find out if people really do bounce"

seriously though, this is very disturbing.

Updated On: 8/16/07 at 03:35 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 4:34pm

I thought Curtain #3 was always a lifetime supply of Van De Camp's baked beans.

[mateo]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 4:45pm

love hurts.

[romantico]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 4:49pm

The fundies think only God should take a life.

[Yawper]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 8:21pm

Maybe he was going to follow, then chickened out.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 8:43pm

Maybe, Yawper.

Regardless, he was not in his right mind.

It's pretty God-awful.

[Yawper]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 10:05pm

I've known eight suicides in my lifetime - depression is a cruel bitch - yet we as a society prefer not to address mental health issues, and the neurochemical research gets nowhere near the funding other research subjects get.

It was really striking that in the VA Tech aftermath almost everyone advocated gun control but only Bill Richardson mentioned mental health funding, and it was only the briefest mention in passing.

I've been toying with the idea of going back to school. One field I've been considering is microbiology so I could work on the neurochemistry and genetics of addiction and/or depression, but there are scant research opportunities out there. It's just not a priority in the U.S.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 10:18pm

is there any truth to the rumor that he was humming a guns 'n roses song?

Updated On: 8/16/07 at 10:18 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 8/17/07 at 2:06am

No papa, it was Iron Maiden.

Updated On: 8/17/07 at 02:06 AM