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Ex-Nassau Cop Gets 15 Years for Killing Wife

Charles Wilkinson
Charles Wilkinson

A former Nassau County police officer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing his wife in their upstate New York home last year, according to The Associated Press.

Charles Wilkinson pleaded guilty in May to manslaughter in Saratoga County court. He was originally charged with second-degree murder.

Prosecutors have said that the 69-year-old ex-cop killed his wife, Kathleen, “during a physical domestic dispute” in June 2014 and then “continued to live in the house over the weekend while his wife lay deceased in the bedroom.”

Deputies from the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office made the discovery at the couple’s Malta home when authorities were called to check the condition of the victim, who had not been heard from in several days.

Investigators later determined that the woman had been fatally strangled.

Prosecutors offered Wilkinson the plea deal because psychiatrists determined he was emotionally disturbed, AP reported.

Wilkinson, who retired in 1984, collected a pension of more than $33,000 last year, records show.