Slain pastor's wife convicted of voluntary manslaughter: Attention focused on pressures on ministers' wives
In a case that focused national attention on the psychological pressures on wives of ministers, Mary Winkler, the wife of a slain Church of Christ pastor in Tennessee, was convicted April 19 of voluntary manslaughter. Winkler, 33, was charged in last year’s slaying of Matthew Winkler, 31.
After hearing accusations that the pastor abused his wife, jurors in Selmer, Tennessee, spent more than seven hours deliberating. They ultimately rejected the more serious first-degree murder conviction that prosecutors had sought.