Alleged Gambling Addict Sentenced to Life in Prison for Wife’s New Hampshire Murder

William Argie is sledding to expend the quietus of his living inwards prison after he was convicted this hebdomad in New Hampshire down for murdering his wife and faking her suicide. The 49-year-old say occupier was found hangdog of first-degree off and falsehood of criminal evidence inward connectedness with the 2019 law-breaking in Londonderry.

Rockingham County Superior Margaret Court Judge Marguerite Wageling issued the doom on Tuesday. Relatives of the victim, Maureen Argie, pleaded with the adjudicate before sentencing.

Wageling later scolded Argie before his sentencing.

Your selfish, narcissistic, and perhaps addicted-fueled conduct led to the desolation of your family,” Wageling told Argie, Law & Crime, a legal publication, reported.

Apprehended at Foxwoods

William Argie was located at a Connecticut’s Foxwoods Casino on Apr 5 following the murder, according to WMUR, a local TV station. He unsuccessfully tried to send suicide, tidings reports revealed.

Two months later, he was indicted by a grand jury and later arrested. He entered a not shamed plea inwards the strangling and/or suffocating caseful against him. He claimed his married woman committed suicide.

But jurors eventually found him guilty of the charges. The murder took localize spell the couple’s children, a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old, were asleep in the house.

Beyond the lifetime sentence, he was also presumption unity and a half to trine years inwards prison for the falsifying grounds charge, WMUR said. The tribulation was repeatedly delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Faced Debt, Bankruptcy

Prosecutors claim Argie was inwards debt and shut to failure due to his play addiction, according to published reports. His home had tried to direct an interference with him with the desire of him addressing his behavior, news media reported.

Maureen Argie was attempting to split up him at the time of the homicide. She was also seeking custody of the children and mat up threatened past her husband.

William Argie’s fellow gambler, Saint James Timbas, claimed that Argie tried to hire him to wipe out Maureen Argie. It was to come out like a suicide, he said. In return, Timbas would obtain voice of her $400,000 life insurance insurance policy under the alleged scheme. Timbas refused to make component in the plot.

At single tip inward the trial, William Argie asked the justice to hold the compositor's case a mistrial. But he chose not to firing his defense team attorneys. The justice refused his request.

Argie will not live eligible for parole under the sentence. At ace time, he worked as a physician’s assistant.

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