Police: Ex-cop killed wife, then spent weekend with body inside their upstate New York home
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities say a 69-year-old retired police officer killed his wife inside their upstate New York home last week, then spent several days with the body.
Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy III says a sheriff's deputy looking into the welfare of 65-year-old Kathleen Wilkinson on Sunday found her body on a bedroom floor in her home in the town of Malta, 20 miles north of Albany.
They say she was killed during a domestic dispute last week with her husband, Charles Wilkinson, a retired cop in Long Island's Nassau County. Murphy says the man spent the weekend in the house with her body before letting the deputy into the home.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The time and cause of death haven't been released.
Wilkinson has been charged with second-degree murder. Murphy doesn't know whether Wilkinson has a lawyer.