“After all these years, I still feel hurt. I still feel bothered. Like, how could somebody think that I did that?”
McGuire said she spoke in a new"20/20" interview, 16 years after she was convicted of murdering her husband, because she believes"the killer is out there and it's not me."
His wife, Melanie McGuire, a fertility nurse and the mother of his two sons, was eventually convicted of murdering him and dumping his body. She was sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors believed that Melanie McGuire’s motive to kill her husband came from her desire to start a new life with her lover, Dr. Bradley Miller, a partner at the medical practice RMA Associates, where she worked as a nurse.
"It turned out that when the record check was done with Pennsylvania, a record came back that Melanie McGuire had purchased a gun," said Patti Prezioso, the lead investigator and prosecutor at Melanie McGuire's trial. Investigators discovered that the parking lot had surveillance cameras, and they pulled the security footage thinking they had stumbled upon a smoking gun that would show who dumped Bill McGuire's car. At the time, the local media also reported this detail about the parking lot's surveillance cameras.Melanie and Bill McGuire cut the cake at their wedding.
“It sounds beyond ridiculous sitting here saying it and I acknowledge that… It’s the truth,” Melanie McGuire told “20/20.” "I panicked. I absolutely tried to have those charges taken off because I feared that people would look and think what they ultimately ended up thinking," McGuire said. Melanie McGuire denies this, pointing to the fact that there are hundreds of miles between Delaware and Virginia Beach.The circumstantial evidence against Melanie McGuire was mounting by this point, but investigators were still having trouble finding any physical evidence that would link Melanie McGuire to her husband's murder, according to Sacks.
On June 5, 2005, authorities arrested Melanie McGuire on first-degree murder charges. She pleaded not guilty. After re-examining her murder conviction over a decade later, Sacks and Shlosberg, believe Melanie McGuire was wrongfully convicted. https://directappealpodcast.com/Meghan Sacks and Amy Schlosberg are the hosts of the podcast"Direct Appeal" and Fairleigh Dickinson University criminology professors.
The podcast hosts and Melanie McGuire herself, raise questions about whether it's even possible the gun she purchased was the murder weapon. Prezioso said she has no doubt Melanie McGuire's gun was the murder weapon. “It was a mistake on a gun manufacturer's website. We were not gathering evidence from a gun manufacturer's website. The evidence that was at trial was from ballistic experts.”“The evidence in this case points to a well-organized, meticulously planned execution of a murder,” Prezioso said during the trial.
Prezioso said the evidence presented by the state’s computer forensic expert at trial was robust and Melanie McGuire’s legal team presented their own expert as well. She adds, “Is she trying to say that the man who was so excited to be buying this house, because he wanted to have this house for the wife that he loved and his children, that at the same time trying to kill her? It never made sense.”
However, the state's expert disagreed, testifying that he ran the tests he believed were necessary to link the bags.
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