One more pious killer-Trial opens for man who allegedly made wifes shooting look like suicide,
after failed hit
https://www.twincities.com/2018/01/23/cottage-grove-man-accused-murder-his-wife-trial-begins/
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Authorities responding to a 911 call from Stephen Allwine found Amy Allwine dead in her Cottage Grove home in November 2016. She was dead, with a gunshot wound to the head.
A medical examination later revealed excessive doses of scopolamine, a drug used to treat nausea, in Amy Allwine’s body. She did not have a prescription for that drug.
Prosecutors allege Stephen Allwine accessed the “dark web,” a hidden portion of the internet associated with crime, to hire a hit man to kill his wife. After several plans fell through, prosecutors say, Stephen Allwine poisoned his wife and shot her with the family’s 9mm gun.
Defense attorney Kevin Devore said the timeline leading up to Amy Allwine’s death would have made it impossible for Stephen Allwine to have killed her.
Assistant Washington County Attorney Jamie Kreuser described Amy Allwine as a loving mother, dog lover, business owner and a woman of faith — not the type of person who would die by suicide.
“Who would want to do this?” Kreuser said of the woman’s alleged murder. “Someone who didn’t want to be married to her anymore.”
Stephen Allwine wrote sermons and counseled married couples at a Newport Church where he served as a deacon and later a church elder.
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