Will a judge show mercy on "battered woman'' Mary Winkler? June 8, 2007 — -- For more than a decade, the so-called "battered woman syndrome" murder defense has gained traction in the courts and ...

Next week marks the one year anniversary of the murder of Church of Christ preacher Matthew Winkler. Today we saw a kinder-gentler prosecution. If convicted, Mary Winkler will not spend the rest of ...

06/26/1922 – 01/28/2023 Mary Winkler, a resident of San Pedro, passed away on January 28, 2023, at the age of 100 years. She was born on June 26, 1922, in Maryville, Missouri to Jack and Nora Holt.

The idyllic morning silence of the small rural town was broken by a single, piercing boom — followed by silence. It was March 22, 2006, in Selmer, Tennessee. Mary Winkler, wife to the town’s Fourth ...

SELMER, Tenn. (AP) -- A jury must decide if a Tennessee preacher's wife was an abused woman who accidentally shot her husband, or if she intentionally shot him in the back and left him to die in their ...

SELMER, Tenn. -- A woman who killed her preacher husband with a shotgun blast to the back as he lay in bed was sentenced Friday to three years in prison, but with time served could be released on ...

SELMER, Tenn. — On March 22, 2006, minister Matthew Winkler was found dead, shot in the back in his Selmer, Tennessee, home. Winkler’s wife, Mary, and the couple’s three children were missing in the ...